Dumping Ground for Random Thoughts

So, I was slacking yesterday!  Well, not really.  Between work and meetings it was a 14+ hour day and I just came home and went to bed.  I’ll make up for it this weekend and post an extra photograph for you all.

This one is an example of a perspective shot.  This is the lobby at Disney’s Coronado Springs resort.  It was taken with the flash off to get the full color and effect that the room brought.

Photo details: Exposure time 1/125 sec, Aperture f/4.5, Focal Length 19mm, Lens Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 G II ED, Camera Nikon D40X.

No matter how you look at it, the geodesic dome (a.k.a., Spaceship Earth) at Epcot just looks cool!

Photo details: Exposure time 1/320 sec, Aperture f/9, ISO 100, Focal Length 19mm, Lens Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 G II ED, Camera Nikon D40X.

"Project 365" projects are extremely difficult by their very nature.  So, I’m going to modify the rules of my project.  My project will be to post a different photograph that I have taken every day.  I will attempt to get as many daily photographs as possible, but there will be times when the post will contain a photograph from a previous photo shoot.

Today’s photo is another one that was taken last month in Disney.  To the untrained eye, this would appear to be a vintage photo taken out west in the wild west era. However, this is what you get when you put together a vintage-looking scene with modern technology. By taking the picture from a moving train with an authentic looking background, then converting it to black and white using Photoshop, the result comes out to look like a vintage photograph.

Photo details: Exposure time 1/100 sec, Aperture f/3.8, Focal Length 22mm, Lens Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 G II ED, Camera Nikon D40X.

Today was another day with no creativity.  I guess the cold does that to you!  Not only was it cold, but with the freeze last night, anything of color that was unprotected died last night.

Since everything is starting to turn brown, I thought of a nice colorful photo that I took last month.  One thing you can count on from the folks at Disney, is that it will be colorful!

Photo details: Exposure time 1/250 sec, Aperture f/8, ISO 100, Focal Length 55mm, Lens Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 G II ED, Camera Nikon D40X.

Today’s theme…..rain.  Rain falling in a large body of water always produces interesting shapes.  Today’s rain was no different.

Photo details: Exposure time 1/40 sec, Aperture f/5.6, ISO 200, Focal Length 200 mm, Lens Nikon AF-S Nikkor 55-200mm 1.4-5.6 G ED, Camera Nikon D40X.

Once again, we have another cold front approaching.  With temperatures once again falling toward the freezing mark in South Florida, we have to be creative on generating heat.  So, the candles and oil lamps get lit up.

Photo details: Exposure time 1/5 sec, Aperture f/14, ISO 200, Focal Length 55mm, Lens Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 G II ED, Camera Nikon D40X.

When I look out my window at the business/condo complex across the street, I see a lot of empty units.  This has been this way since they built it 10 years ago.  In an attempt to not make it look so desolate, the owner has painted murals over the windows.  This is one of them that faces my office.

Today’s experiment was to take my simple point-and-shoot camera and see just what kind of photo I can get with it, with the zoom set all the way out (3x optical zoom, 4x digital zoom).  

Photo details: Exposure time 1/18 sec, Aperture f/4.9, ISO 50, Focal Length 76mm, Camera Nikon Coolpix L4.