Amateur Photographer

14 days. 2, 206 miles. Around 410 pictures. My picture count is low by today’s standards, but that is a massive amount for me. I saw some awesome scenery, and I tried some new techniques with my cameras. Some camera stuff I’ve learned: Using the Cokin Filter System can be cumbersome and time consuming, but [...]

The weather finally cleared and I spent my last day of vacation in the New River Area, specifically Hinton, and some surrounding State Parks. I wanted to take pictures in the old Railroad town of Hinton, but The annual New River Train was there, so the streets were closed off and packed with people. The [...]

Friday and Saturday were dull, overcast days, but I still managed to get a few decent shots at Pike Lake State Park on Friday, and Lake Alma State Park on Saturday. When I got to Lake Alma on Saturday, the sky was featureless, bright grey. I pulled out my Cokin Graduted “tobacco color” graduated filter [...]

The lousy weather this week forced me to cancel spending two days in the Hinton, WV area, visiting Bluestone and Pipestem State Parks. Sunday is supposed to be clear again, so maybe I can get one last day of real shooting in. It’s supposed to be rainy for the third day in a row here [...]

I headed out on Route 124 in Ohio to photograph farmland. Once again the light was not good, the color hadn’t changed much, and there were no clouds in the sky to offer a bit of interest. As I was driving I noticed clouds to the east, so I took a big detour and ended [...]