Bike Walking Maryville College

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Downtown Knoxville Medieval reenactment

House in Knoxville Tennessee

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Backlit Leave at Maryville College Tn

Tree and Dogwood in Cades Cove

Rain on the Road at Maryville College

Swimmer in Reflections

Blount County Court House Through the Trees

Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Maine

Maryville College Anderson Hall

Bike Riding at Maryville College

Dogwood Bloom in Black and White

Elvis in Downtown Maryville TN

Big Scissors in Downtown Maryville TN

More Reflections in Downtown Maryville TN

More Downtown Maryville Tennessee

Big Shadow and Pigeon in Downtown Maryville Tennessee

Reflections in Down Town Maryville Tennessee

Summer Swim Meet Maryville Tennessee

Base Fiddle Player in Cades Cove

Sometimes you need to get to a very low angle on a subject. I set the camera on auto focus with a 17mm lens and put the camera almost on the ground without looking through the camera. Yes it is a kind of guess work when it comes to the composition. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Fear not! Just try it!

Couple Playing Mountain Music in Cades Cove

Downtown Knoxville Tennessee

Gas Station in Maryville Tennessee

Starry Night in Maryville Tennessee

Police Officer Down Town Knoxville

Palace Theater Downtown Maryville Tennessee

Green Reflection in Cades Cove

Roof at Georgia Renaissance Festival

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Georgia Renaissance Festival Portrait

Georgia Renaissance Festival

Doorway of Walker Sisters Cabin in Great Smoky Mountains

Light is what photography is all about. Without it nothing can be recorded. The warm daylight seemed to welcome visitors to the old historical Cabin built when Abraham Lincoln was still practicing law. The cabin is located in the Little Greenbriar area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I used a 17mm lens set at f-5.6 with a shutter 1/60.

Another Night Shot in Downtown Maryville Tennessee

I love wet weather at night. This was shot during a night field trip with my photography class from Pellissippi State. Rain is ok as long as you are prepared for it. I use a big golf umbrella with my camera mounted to a tripod. This way things stay dry and I get interesting images of reflections caused by the rain. This photo was shot across from the Palace Theater. With my camera on a tripod I was able to use a exposure of 1/2 a second at f-11 at ISO 200. The white balance was set for tungsten light. The one with the little light bulb sympol .

Night in Downtown Maryville with George Strait

I got a shot through Roy's Record Shop window capturing a cardboard cut out of George Strait with a reflection of the Capitol Theater. I used a tripod with a 8 second exposure on f-11. I used a flashlight during the exposure to paint light on George.

A Spooky Night in the Neighborhood

A combination of a very long exposure and burning leaves created an interesting night of fog and smoke. I stepped outside my house camera on tripod and started shooting my neighborhood. My exposure was set for 30 seconds with an f-stop of F 11.

Selective Looking

Many times photography is more selective looking than anything else. In this image of dancers I cropped in the camera and also cropped with Photoshop to show what I wanted to show my viewers. Stage lighting and movement of the dancers with a slow shutter speed help to show the beauty of dance. My shutter speed was half a second with an f-stop of 8 using a 200 mm lens.

Angle of View

When shooting ordinary subjects in photography angle of view can make all the difference in the world. In this image I was able to capture things differently by shooting at a high angle. Eye level is probably the most boring angle to shoot any subject because it's the level we always see the world. Exposure information; F3 .5 shutter speed 1/30 ISO 400

Walking Along the Shore of Percy Priest Lake in Nashville

This image was shot on a grey day with a cold wind coming off the lake. It seemed to be a perfect setting for black and white photography. I used a 15mm lens placed very close to the ground to capture the weather wore rocks with large cracks pointing the direction of the walkers.

Snow on Christmas Night

I decided to go out in my back yard to get some snow pictures in the dark. I just shot these a few min. ago. Here is how I set my camera : manual at ISO 1000 1 second f-3.5 with the on camera flash on. The flash was set at rear shutter which means the flash go off at the end of the exposure. Also the white balance was set on auto. The orange sky is from the street lights.  MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Ballet Gloria Christmas " What Child is This"

Out of all of the Christmas programs to see this is at the top of my list of can not miss! It is also a great opportunity to capture images of dancers. The lighting and overall production is second to none in the Knoxville area. I sat on the front row to one side in order to get this angle. The camera was on maual with the white balance set on tugsten. I used a 100mm lens at f-2.8 at 1/4 with ISO 200. The slower shutter speed eabled me to capture the motion of the dancers. Link to Ballet Gloria.

Percy Priest Lake This Weekend in Nashville

I took a short hike from a Nashville neighborhood to the rocky edge of Percy Priest Lake. Using a 15mm lens I carefully composed my image to make sure my own shadow did not show up on the rocks in the foreground. I wanted to get the ripples on the surface of the lake caused by a strong wind. I actually toned down the color in Photoshop. Exposure info- f-5.6  1/500 ISO 200.

Moon On A Windy Stormy Night

I saw the moon through the clouds as I was driving home so when I got to my driveway I pulled out my camera using a 200mm lens to capture what I saw. Ended up taking two exposures. One for the clouds then one for the moon. Exposure Info. for the clouds  f-2.8   1/100  ISO 3200  for the moon   f-2.8   1/640  ISO 200. As you can see there is a big differences in the cloud exposure compared to the moon exposure. The way to understand why the moon needs less exposure is the fact the surface of the moon is as bright as a sunny day here on earth. Remember it is the same sun that lights the moon and earth. By the way I used Photoshop to combine the two images.

The Moving Walkway at The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC

Using a 15mm lens I turned the camera sideways in order to include more of the led lights that are used to light the tunnel between the two main galleries at the National Gallery in DC. The bright light in the center of the image is from the cafeteria that has a large window bring in light from outside. Exposure info- f-5.6 at 1/30 ISO 1000.

Old and New in Knoxville Tennessee

Evening light reflecting off a glass builting made a wonderful background for older style archtecture in downtown Knoxville. I used a 300mm lens to bring everthing closer and to make the building look closer together. Exposure information- f-8 at 1/30 using a tripod to keep the camera steady.

Bricks Along an Alley Way in Knoxville

Sometimes I get into shooting everything with one focal length. I used to do the same thing with a paint brush when I was in school. Maybe it is being lazy but it gives me a challenge to find the best ppossible subject for a certain lens. In this case I was using a 15mm lens. I moved in so close to the stack of bricks I almost touched them with the front element of the lens. Exposure details- f-5.6  1/125 at ISO 200.

Bowling With Color

In the photography world there are subjects that need to be color or need to be black & white. In the case of this image it screams for color. Even the shiny floor is reflecting all of the colors of the bowling lanes. The kids look like they dressed for their surroundings. I shot this with a 35 mm lens f-stop 3.5 at 1/125 at ISO 1000 with the white balance set at tungsten.

Halloween With Dorothy on The Yellow Brick Road

I shot this during Halloween. I wanted to get a picture of Dorothy as she moved down the sidewalk along with the surrounding neighborhood. I decided to use a small pop up flash on the camera to stop the action of the walking girl but used a long exposure to capture the houses. I set the camera on manual. I used an f-stop of 5.6 with an exposure of 1 second with a 15 mm lens. The houses are showing the motion of me holding the camera for 1 second. The flash lite the girl that was in a very dark area. This is not in the manual on how to use a camera. In other words braking the rules can be fun.

Cades Cove Smoke from Blacksmith Shop

This was taken during my photography class trip to Cades Cove. I used a 15mm lens at f-5.6 at 1/250 at ISO 200 with a manual white balance with the camera set on manual. I was really trying to capture the shadows from the trees. The smoke from the Blacksmith shop was a bounce.