My Photo Gallery

To the right under My Links is the link to my Photo Gallery Web page. This site is hosted on one of my servers. It is not the fastest but it does host almost all of my digital photos. Feel free to visit. If you see a shot you like please rank it. Consider any ranking as a good thing. If you don't like a photo please leave it alone I probably already realize it is not attractive. Consider 5 stars as "Wow, that should be in a magazine" and 1 star as "Hey, that's not hard on my eyes". Thanks for taking a look.

4th of July Parade on the 3rd

Just added the 4th of July Parade shots to my album. With the 4th being on a Sunday many of the towns in the area celebrated on the 3rd of July. Some celebrated on the 5th of July. You can find the new shots HERE. And here is one of my favorite shots from this group.

African Scans and Indexing Completed

I've been working hard (surprise surprise) and I've completed scanning in my South African Slides. I've indexed them with keywords and posted them to my website. Please feel free to take a look. The most recent adds are in the East London section. Here is one of my favorites from this group.

If I remember correctly this was taken on a Christmas day. The only way I know of to have a white Christmas in South Africa is to visit the beach.

Where Have I Been?

My daughter Nicole mentioned awhile back that the Blogs she liked to follow hadn't been updated for awhile. A shot of guilt ran through me knowing that I had not updated anything for a bit. I than felt a sense of relief when I thought longer on the subject that there was a good chance that my Blog probably wasn't one that she like to follow anyways.

Christmas has come and gone and yes Santa (more specifically Mrs. Clause) was really good to me and I got the camera I had been hoping for. The Pentax K-7 along with two lenses the 18-55mm and the 55-300mm Pentax. And I have been very busy trying to learn about the camera and all of its buttons and functions. I need some kind of training class I think. I'm usually not to intimidated by new technology but I felt like a kid in a grown-up's world.

I'm now trying to learn how to get cool pictures out of it. My biggest fear is that I will learn that the equipment just isn't that big of a part of what makes good pictures and I'll have to try to become a real photographer.

By the way the digital photo processing thing is overwhelming me as well. Enough said how about a picture?

Here is a shot I took the other day while snow shoeing up Farmington Canyon. One shot is basically how it came out of the Camera and the other is with a little digital enhancing to get it closer to how I remembered it looking.

As I remember it.

As the camera took the Picture.