Amateur Photographer

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Over the weekend I drove to Parkersburg, WV. I hadn’t been there since 1968 and it is a nice town. I took some shots of historical buildings and the downtown area. On the way back, I took I-77 through Charleston and stopped at The University of Charleston to take a picture of the State Capital, [...]

GPS Data Loggers are GPS devices that are becoming popular for Geotagging. Generally these devices come without position readouts, and only record your position every x number of seconds. Once you get home, you download the logs to your PC, and then sync the position data into the EXIF portion of a JPG file by [...]

Saturday and Sunday weren’t very productive for me. Saturday I had a long drive to Rocky Fork State Park in Ohio. It was just too hot and by the time I got there I was miserable and there just weren’t very many photo ops for me. I took aabout 20 shots, and I posted none [...]

Friday, was a “puffy cloud day” and I couldn’t wait to finish work. I headed straight for my third trip to Fortification Hill in Gallipolis. Once I find a site, i will photograph it many times in different ight and weather to try and get my ultimate shot. I still haven’t done it, but here [...]