Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Myrtle Beach's Amusement Park

Here are some night shots from the amusement park here at Myrtle Beach.

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Monday, June 04, 2007

Myrtle Beach Day 3

Robin and I got up for the sunrise this morning.  It was very nice on the beach, there were very few people around.  Had the opportunity to get a couple of good shots this morning.

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Oh yeah, Lighting 102 started today.  David wants us to throw out our preconceived ideas of lighting and clear our mental plates.  He will start posting our assignments later.  Check it out at Strobist.com

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Myrtle Beach Day 2

We survived our first night in Myrtle Beach.  It was very eventful.  The high winds from tropical storm Barry caused us some problems.  It broke one of the support arms on the popup camper.  So at about 12:30/1:00 in the morning we were out trying to collapse the camper in the wind and rain.  Needless to say, we are not in the camper any longer.  My wife's parents (the camper is theirs) took the camper home.  So Robin and I stayed here in Myrtle Beach.

Here are today's photos.

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Saturday, June 02, 2007

Catching up

So I am spending my vacation catching up on uploading photos to flickr, catching up on my blog, and just the general organizing of my digital life. 

First things, uploads to flickr.  I have been very lax in getting photos up here.  Though I am good about getting the clients (in this case friends) a CD with all the photos on it.  The photos that are going up right now are from my friends wedding.  Though Ben and Emily had hired a photographer, he was a friend of her father's and Emily didn't have a lot of confidence in him.  Since I was going to be there anyway to support them in this joyous occasion, I told them I would take some candids for them.  Well it turns out that the following photo was their favorite.
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Learn how to light at Strobist.com

This blog has suffered lately.  I really need to start posting on a regular basis and start passing on valuable information.  That is on my list of things to do and to improve upon.

And lastly, organizing my digital life.  The computer that I am typing to you from will be going away on the 15th of June.  I have accepted a new position that will still focus on using my IT skills, but will allow me to expanded my skill set into web development and graphic design.  I am really looking forward to this new job.  They are really excited about me and have expressed excitement over my photography skills.  So I am cleaning up this computer and making an easily transferable backup.  (As a side note, I backup my computer on a regular basis with mozy.  This is a great, easy to use, and automatic way to backup your computer.  If you decide to sign up, please use the link I provided or use this referral code P3W5EB, we both get and extra 256MB of storage. Thanks)

Well I think that is about it right now.  Hopefully the weather here in Myrtle Beach will cooperate a little more over the next week.  Look for more in the next couple of days.

Myrtle Beach Day 1

Well we arrived here in Myrtle Beach today (after almost rear-ending a nice person who did not have brake lights that worked). 

We have gorgeous weather courtesy of tropical storm Barry.  Plenty of rain with short spurts of just wind.  Well that did not stop me from getting out and taking some pictures.  There were two surfers out enjoying the nice waves that were coming in.  Unfortunately I do not remember there names.  (I am terrible with those kinds of things).  Well here are a couple of the photos I took.  These are all naturally light with no modification other than converting from RAW to JPG.

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