Druid Hill Park — Blog

No sam I am not, 'cause this is about something green and something ham — but green hair and prosciutto at Birroteca. The end of todays line, after a visit to the Rawlings Conservatory and spin thru Druid Hill Park. Abstracts from the Conservatory and structures from the park. Structures in color, vivid Fuji Fortia color, delivered via Sony and the A7r VSCO and. Some in the conservatory with the Canon 100L macro but most with the killer FE 55 f/1.8. Plenty of snow from the other day but a very comfortable sunny and windless 28 outside. Hot and miserably humid in the Mediterranean (Green) House, couldn't wait to get back outside to my New England-like prefered temperature.

Two galleries on smugmug. The abstracts can be seen by clicking here and the park structures by clicking here. And, oh, check out the green hair below.

Green Hair at Birroteca

Was at the race this morning, lots and lots of snaps — ~2,400. Will put a few up here and will link to a smugmug gallery or two for the ones that make the cut, as I get through them. All RAWS of course so it takes a while to get them selected, processed and uploaded. All of the snaps (~825) are uploaded click here or on any of the snaps below to jet off to smugmug.

These images will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Which means you can use them for yourself for non-commercial purposes. There are full size downloads available on smugmug by double-clicking on the large image on the right and choosing O(riginal) from the menu on the top.

BTW, my approach to shooting races is to seek isloated, interesting faces, so I shoot with a long lens and a wide aperture, creating a very narrow depth of field — one thing (usually a face) in focus and everthing else out-of-focus and blurred. For those who care, all the snaps here were taken with a Canon 7D with a 70-200 f/2.8L lens, some were taken with a 1.4 extender in-place. The exif information is available for the snaps posted on smugmug.

This snap was early, before the race and they are the only people who got the blog URL. I wonder if they remember. They were hot to get snapped until I told them I wasn't an official photographer, they hemmed and hawed, then they said what the hell — earning themselves the top slot.

The equivolcal subjects

The leaders at about 1 3/4 miles

The leaders at the 3 mile mark

Flying

Thematic

Kristen Kringle and elf escort