A fun afternoon.....

Well today ( actually yesterday now......geez time flies by!!!!) was a fun afternoon. Took a nice little walk not to far from my house to do some exploring and see what i could find. Ive been pushing myself lately to "look" for pictures and try to work the scene as much as possible. Wether doing better compositions, using my strobes to work the lighting or just not shooting a picture at all im just pushing myself as much as possible to see things differently and improve what i do. So it was a trip of experimentation and i had a ton of fun. Got to test out the 17-55mm that i borrowed from a friend, im pretty sure that i will buy it as i loved shooting with it. Funny story: I was shooting in a grass field looking for bugs and got yelled at by some crusty old guy telling me that the field was not my personal campground. I tried to be polite and not be sarcastic and told him i was just taking pictures, he proceeded to tell me that "this city has enough crime because of people like you".........at this wonderful remark i ran up the field and performed a flying kick to his face. As he was trying to get up i proceeded to keep him down with a wonderfully executed HADUKEN!!! and used my indian voodoo to call eagles from nowhere to peck his eyes out, problem solved.........ok so it only happened in my mind. I actually remained quite calm and polite and he kept being a jerk, he said that he was going inside to call the cops.........i stayed for another hour, no cops showed up, i laughed. Just so you know, there weren't any NO TRESPASSING signs anywhere i checked twice. Anywho, heres some photos. Enjoy.





I did 3 variations of the next shot...
Available light:

One strobe:

Two strobes:


So as i walked by this railroad crossing thing there were a TON of bees flying around. I thought to myself "what the heck is up with all the bees?" well i found my answer when i looked under the crossing arm because there was a HUGE hive under there, it was pretty cool. I will admit though i was praying that they were not killer bees....



So thats it, there are some pictures that i did not post on here. If you would like to see those then visit my MySpace