This week, as baseball season opens, we mark the end of the dark abyss of sports apathy (and winter) that we’ve endured since the end of the morally-complicated college football season. This week, we finally embrace our locally venerable “boys of summer” and all that is great about sun, heat, humidity and outdoor stadiums (where baseball […]
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Shooting Debrief: Night Photography at Shenvalee
Specs ISO: 12800 Aperture: 3.5 Shutter Speed: 20 seconds Focal Length: 18mm Lens: EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS (Yep, the kit lens.) Background Just outside of Luray, Virginia is the small town of New Market. With a number of friends in the area, we were visiting for a community event that put us at the Shenvalee Golf […]
The Photo Backstory: The Family Barn
Photo Specs ISO : 500 Aperture: 2.2 Shutter Speed: 3200 Background I’ve previously posted a Backstory article on an image from the family farm; this is of the barn. When I took the previous image, I was actually set up right in front of the barn here. In any case, this is a structure that […]
The Photo Backstory: Night Sky Photography at the Family Farm
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”8″ gal_title=”Night Sky Photography Images”] Photo Specs ISO: 12800 Aperture: 6.3 Shutter Speed: 15 seconds Background As many regular readers know (since all two of you are friends anyway), we go home for the holidays to east Tennessee, where my parents live on a small farm. There’s not a great deal of that farm […]