So these are some shots from the first day of shooting out in Texas at Gorman Falls.  This place is wild, and honestly I don’t know how it exists where it does, but boy am I happy it was there.  We spent hours there shooting and the light just kept changing the scene over and over again.

Amazing place to shoot…

Captured with D700 24-70f2.8 and 70-200f2.8 with the use of a Singh-Ray Vari-N-Duo filter on Lexar digital film

So I took the new gear out for a spin yesterday to get used to it and to make sure I worked out the kinks before heading to Texas for Jeff’s Texas Landscape Safari.  I took a road that I haven’t been down in I don’t know how long, but I am happy I decided to head that way.

Came across a huge grouping of California Poppies to start of the trip.  All this and I forgot my macro

At this top of the hill was this great tree.  Made of a great conversion to Infrared B&W

Great mailbox about 2 miles from the flowers.  I can’t believe all the stuff I was finding on a 5 mile stretch of road this point.

Found this guy hanging out at the barn below.

It was a great trip and this wasn’t all I caught.  Over at the Life @ 50 project you can see what else I caught and I have a few more posts coming up in the next few days to show off a bit more of what I found.  Had a lot of fun with an old tractor I found that I did a Single shot HDR on.

Images Captured with Nikon D700 24-70f2.8 and 70-200f2.8 on Lexar digital film

Ok, so as long as Bob Dylan doesn’t care if I used a line from one of my favorite songs I am good and the blog will remain up and running  But really times are changing around here for me and this blog.   Many things have been in flux as of the last few days and the main one (and might I add the most controversial) was me making a switch to Nikon from Canon.

I got some hater mail as I might of expect, but you know what, I don’t care.  A lot of people asked me why, and my only response is why not?  I have had a great opportunity to use both camera systems and they are both great, but there is something more with Nikons as of late that truly seems to make it a more useful tool for me to use in the path that my photography is taking me.  One thing I was reminded of when I tossed a tweet out over the weekend saying I was switching was something that my friends Ray and Mark started discussing and that was, it isn’t the equipment that make the photograph it is the person behind the camera.  They are absolutely right and I completely agree.  The camera is a means to an end and that is it, the person peering through the viewfinder is the art and emotion that will make the image.  So with that I will end this quick little post with one final note:   I will still be shooting with Canon for my Life @ 50 project.  I still have a love for the system that I have used for the last 7 years and I don’t think I will ever give up that little 20D and my 50f1.8.

Shot above captured with Nikon D3 24-27f2.8 on Lexar digital film

Update:  Do to a great phase from Sabrina I decided to whip this up…  Enjoy

Alrighty, well what can I say except howdy, and sorry for the delay in posting on the regular blog.  Been busy getting ready to give a talk to some 8th Graders about photography.  But luckily my good friend Kevin gave me a call on Saturday and asked if I wanted to go shooting out and about. Me not being one to refuse an offer like that grabbed the gear, and headed out the door.  We stopped in a little town about 30 minutes North of my hometown at first which ended up being a great place for last week’s Life @ 50 project.  After that, we headed a bit South and stopped in at another town that had some nice abandoned industrial areas that had some fun shooting possibilities.  Here is a bit of what we captured:

Old double layered brick wall near the main plaza.

Main flywheel on an old conveyor system that is out and rusting nicely in the elements

On/Off switch for the same conveyor

Hydraulic controls for an old overhead gantry system at an abandoned railroad dock

Busted light at the loading dock.

All in all we only shot in the area for about 30 minutes but it was a great time and a definite GOYA exercise

Captured with 1D Mark IIN 16-35f2.8 II on Lexar digital film

Finished in Silver Efex Pro

So, I had a lot going on today and was slammed for time for the entire day, and while I type this I should be getting ready for a dinner party.  It is not a black tie affair so it will take me a few minutes to get ready (Jeans, they’re good thing).  This week I was downtown for a few things and got some shots in for my Life at 50mm Project in while I was there.  But I wanted to go back because there were some shots I saw that I couldn’t grab earlier in the week.  So I adjusted my schedule and gave myself 45 minutes of shooting today.

So while I couldn’t get in a whole lot of time in shooting I did come away with some fun stuff.  The main goal was to focus on shapes and lines for this quick project.  Here a few of what I captured…

For 45 minutes it was a good time…

So following with the theme of the last post about taking the time to stop and take a look at the world around you.  This post is more about, don’t think to yourself that just because you have only a few minutes to shoot that you can’t get some great and fun images.  If you don’t get to shoot you will never know what you are capable of…