Spring?

While I was out in my yard last weekend enjoying the nice weather, I took a few photos of some flowers starting to bloom. After such a long, snow filled winter it was nice to see stuff growing again. I thought we we were done with this white stuff for the year, I guess I…

Super Moon 2011

On Saturday night, I went down to the beach to try my new Tamron 70-300 lens on some shots of the moon. The moon was amazing, this super “perigee moon” was the biggest in almost 20 years. Here are a few shots from the night.

The Shoe Maker – 2nd Prize Winner

What a great way to round out my first year doing photography, winning 2nd place in the Milford Fine Arts Council Photo Expo portrait category. This photo was taken at Old Sturbridge Village and is one of my favorites. I have spent this year working really hard to develop my photography skills and it was…

Bike Stunts at the Beach

While I was walking with my daughter down by the beach today, I saw this guy doing some really amazing stunts on his bike. It turns out he is Mike Steidley (http://mikesteidley.com/). I have never heard of him before today, but he was doing some incredible stuff riding his bike across the rocks. He was…

Ice is Nice…

We are getting our fair share of winter storms this season, but this last one left a coating of ice over everything. While it doesn’t make for good driving, it does provide an opportunity for some great photos. These were are all taken down at the beach the other morning. Hope you enjoy them. –…

Downtown Holiday Lights

I met my photography meetup group this past Thursday with the task of photographing the holiday lights on our downtown green. It was one cold night, about 20 degrees and I almost didn’t go, but it was an opportunity to get out and shoot some stuff at night. It was interesting to see how the…

Old Sturbridge Village, MA

I spent last weekend in Massachusetts, my family and I went to Salem for a night and stopped at Old Sturbridge Village on the way back. If you have never been to OSV, it is one of the country’s largest living history museums, OSV has historians in costume, 59 historic buildings on 200 acres, three…

Sunrise at the Beach

I have been wanting to do this for a while and finally got up early enough to go photograph the sunrise. It was a very cold morning but I headed out to the beach anyways. I really wanted to test out my new lens and see what kind of shots I could get. Seeing the…

New Lens

I am very happy to be posting some test shots done with my new Tamron 17-50 2.8 VC lens. I got this lens the other day and I had some time to get out and shoot with it over the weekend. So far I am very happy with the results. This lens is very sharp,…