Sharpsburg dependencey

This series of bracketed snaps has vexed me since I took them in August of '05.  Small shed in the back yard of a a house on the corner of West Main and North Potomac Streets, in Sharpsburg MD, near the Antietam Battlefield.  The yard was dark and the outbuilding backlit. Just reedited this, probably the best of a ton of attempts since '05 but still too crunchy.  HDR tools trying to make it look non-HDR.

Last time I drove past the building was intact but was shorn of its magnificent foliage.

The Big M

First message on the iPhone landing at BWI yesterday (on time for the first time in quite sometime), was from Bill asking me about a photo of a deer at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park.  Bill has a good memory, that snap was take in June '05.  Drove out there real early from DC, starting out around 4AM I think. Entered the park at Thornton Gap from VA 211 and took the shot below at one of the first overlooks heading south on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Always liked this snap of the sun coming up over the Virginia Piedmont.

Wish DSLRs had built-in GPS, there are ways to do it, some easy and expensive some cheap and somewhat clumsy.  It is easy and essentially free in the iPhone.  Canon 10D with 24-70 f2.8 @70mm, .6s exposure on the Gitzo.

The road less taken

There were roads to the left and to the right — both low roads.  But why choose the low road when the high road is available and unoccupied.  However, footgear other than Alden 6245F Dark Brown Suede is recommended. Ouch!

My superheterodyne iPad app The Photographers Ephemeris calculates the altitude change as exactly 92 feet. So much much for science and automation, clearly an estimate relative to thirty-somethings.

Taken during an Atlas time out on one of the several Boston Harbor Islands that can be driven to, World's End. At the end of Martin's Lane in Hingham, beware pink and green en-route.  Nice spot except for perfect alignment with 4L and 4R at Logan, across the way on some other Harbor Islands.  XZ-1 with EVF, then NIKed. More snaps to follow.

Nantasket Beach from World's End.  Wow, maybe too many layers, lower, upper lower, lower middle, middle...

Dorothy

So... the SO tells me she has reason to believe she (Graceland perhaps) is actually from Kansas — despite the MA in her passport.  I am on the road again and since, unlike Dorothy, she has never sullied her ballet (ruby) slippers in The Sunflower State, I offer this snap from the American Roadways gallery on Smugmug.  Just off KS 177 - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Flint Hills, KS in November 2007.  Highly dependent on RRS and the Gitzo.

A solitary tree waging the unwinnable war against grass.  The longest running conflict on the planet. More

Naming conventions

So Dan Z. the Younger, upon hearing of the then forthcoming, rather gratuitous, blog name change, dropped me a line cleverly suggesting blog.nashedphotatoes.com.  In 100,000+ managed images not one of them a damned potato, so Dan you will have to accept profs for blog.nashedphotatosalad.com.  Thinking strongly of renting nashedphotatoes.com — Eastern Market, DC, mid-December '10.  Hah!

Pink and Blue

Springtime in DC, cherry blossoms are out and in.  Outside and inside the Blue Duck watering hole at 24th and N NW. Cherry blossoms apropos the Kobe burgers.  The handy XZ-1 employed again.

Stealthy snap across the two sided bar, cherry blossoms in background, perhaps a cherry concoction of some sort on the bar.  Flashless stealthiness, ISO 250, f2.5, 1/10 shutter speed bailed out by image stabilizer and the ZX-1 sitting on the bar.

Truck, redux

Saturday, camerafied for a local walk, out the garage, into the alley and surprise, the Supik's fab '53 Chevy One Ton Panel truck is out and in the alley.

Thought that these might look good using the very popular "black crush" technique used in the 2007 film 300. Seems to be effective in minimizing the impact of the mid-day shadows in the alley.  Tiffs exported to Flare for the 300 effect as it produces better looking output than the Aperture presets and Photoshop actions.

Blog addiction

so little to say today and so many posts to say it.  Dinner in the Northend. No liquor license so more to follow post wine consumption recovery. 

The venue and Vespa envy...

The boys crooning

Their idol