Millie

I spent so time this week wishing my dog could be with me at school so I decided to compile some of the pictures I have of her.  She is a 12 year old chocolate lab and is amazing with kids.  I can't count the number of times I have watched her allow kids tow crawl all over her and pull on her ears and tail.  Every time she looks at them and licks their hand until they stop or just ignores them.  I have to admit some of the picture arn't the best quality but they still work. 

She is not supposed to be allowed on the couch but sometimes I just have to let her.  Now if only I could hold the camera still while taking the picture.  

This is a picture I took for my photography class in high school.  I tried to make my room look as messy as possible and to get Millie to wear that hat but every time I stepped away she had to express her lack of enthusiasm for my project by yawning or laying down.  She has sure put up with a lot in her lifetime.

This is a picture I took for an internship project that I did in high school.  I was focused on acupuncture points and Millie was the perfect subject.  She stayed put while I moved her legs to position them in a way that allowed me to focus on the specific points. 

As I was packing to come back to school at the end of this summer Millie knew what was going on.  There was one morning she laid across my leg as I was putting my shoes on to prevent me from leaving for work.  As I was packing up my car she seemed to want me to leave her a space to come along with me and felt it necessary to "supervise" my packing.  

Experiments from Class

I really like pictures from odd perspectives an ones that show depth.  I was trying to figure out how to make my little point and shoot camera do what I want and didn't find the right setting to prevent blowing out the sky.  I think the best answer would be a faster shutter speed, but I'm not sure that is possible. I believe this was taken at the lowest possible ISO and shutter speed. 

I ran into the same blow out problem with this picture but did get the blurred background that I was aiming for.  In order to get the more shallow depth of field the f/stop was lowered with one of the settings (macro I believe) and I still didn't know what I could adjust to darken the photo.  

So....I did move the leaves to position them in the grass to help with this photo, but i was trying to play with the perspective.  I was also not shooting directly into the setting sun in these two pictures which helped with the over-exposed areas that were present in the previous pictures.  I really liked the difference in perspective and the different effect it gave these two pictures.  

  

This is the angle we all walk past on our way to Photography class on Tuesday's and Thursdays.  I always think of it as being giant and figured I could take a photo to express that.  The setting sun gave me a nice shadow to add to the different lines that guide a view through the photo.  I'm not sure they are guided the correct direction but it was an attempt. 

I couldn't help but notice the fall colors starting to emerge on campus.  I am a huge fan of the color red too and couldn't pass up the opportunity.  I tried taking this from a couple different angles but I had to go with back lighting because every other angle had over-exposed areas, especially in the sky. 

This picutre was taken on the way to Cody, Wyoming this weekend.  I went on the climbing trip and when we looked back the sun was red due to all the smoke in the air.  I am not super happy with the way the colors turned out because they were MUCH more vibrant and beautiful in person.  I really like the blurred effect on the bottom third of the picture though.  I think a little lightbox would make this photo better. 

Chincoteague Ponies

 

 I was looking for a picture to use for my blog post this week for class and wanted a combination of nature photography and horses.  I was trying to decided what kind of horses I felt like and came up with the Chincoteague horses.  They are known for the swim they make every year from Assateague island to Chincoteague island during the round up and following sale of the foals.  This photo was taken by Bob Langrish, an equine photographer who has had the privilege of photographing the last 6 Olympic games and many other prestigious events.   

Here is a link to his galleries
http://www.boblangrish.com/bob%20langrish%20galleries.php

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time that I have taken.  I took this picture for my photography final in high school.  I believe it was taken with a Nikon D50 DSLR camera with the lense that came on the camera originally but could be wrong on both accounts.  I do know that the picture was taken in Larkspur, Colorado at Perry Park Ranch and is the hoof of a horse named Jack.  Our final project was to pick a list of 26 words off of a photography web site and take a picture to describe each of the words.  The word for this picture happened to be foot. 

So now that I figured this out, hopefully it will keep working.  Posts of photos and fun things should follow soon :)