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Monday, April 12th, 2010
The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. (HDR from a single RAW)
Admittedly, the food court makes for an awkward backdrop. The abundant glass windows at this end of the building allow a lot of natural light to hit the exhibit. This enabled me to get a nice indoor single RAW HDR without a tripod.
Excerpt from the museum’s website:
This is an actual lunar module, one of 12 built for Project Apollo. It was meant to be used in low Earth orbit to test the techniques of separation, rendezvous, and docking with the command and service module. The second of two such test vehicles, its mission was canceled because of the complete success of the first flight.
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Tags: apollo, astronaut, authentic, exhibit, food court, hdr, high dynamic range, historical, indoor, lunar module, museum, nasa, nasm, National Mall, natural light, project apollo, satellite, Smithsonian, space exploration, spring, the District, travel, Washington
Monday, April 5th, 2010
The Washington Monument and Washington Monument Lodge in Washington, D.C. (HDR from a single RAW)
I was recently in the District for a work related conference. The weather for most of the week was downright dreadful. But, I made the most of it. In this photo, the Washington Monument in the background towers above the Washington Monument Lodge.
The girls were able to come up and spend a couple of days with me. It was their first time in D.C. We visited a couple of museums and did a lot of walking on the National Mall. We miscalculated the weather and decided it would be safe to walk all the way to the Lincoln Memorial, which put us about 1.2 miles from the Smithsonian Metro station. Just as we started to walk back, we got hit with a deluge. The kind that renders umbrellas useless. The wetness, combined with being pummeled by stuff getting knocked out of trees, made for a pretty rotten commute back to where we were staying.
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Tags: city park, cloudy, D.C., deluge, downpour, hdr, high dynamic range, historical, Lincoln Memorial, Metro, monument, museum, National Mall, park, rain, rainy, sky, Smithsonian, spring, the District, Washington, Washington Monument
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The Rotunda on The Lawn at UVA (Charlottesville, VA)
This photo was taken back in September of 2008. We took a day trip up to Charlottesville to show Kate where she was born and where she spent the first year of her life. She didn’t remember any of it, but she had a good time.
We caught a lucky break with the weather. After it rained nearly the entire drive up to Charlottesville, the weather improved when we arrived. In fact, we were greeted by some really nice clouds.
Charlottesville is a neat town. Graduating from medical school on The Lawn is something I will always remember.
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Tags: Academical Village, autumn, campus, Central Grounds, Charlottesville, cloudy, college, fall, hdr, historical, rainy, sky, The Grounds, The Lawn, The Rotunda, university, University of Virginia, UVA, Virginia
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
The E.B. Bain Water Treatment Plant in Raleigh, NC
The Bain Project
www.bainproject.com/
Wandering through the Bain Water Treatment Plant experiencing the Bain Project was exceptionally cool. I lived on the edge and went hand held, opting to leave the tripod in the trunk. It turned out to be a good move since the lighting was pretty good (in most areas of the plant) and I was able to maneuver better and cover more ground without it. I was able to get away with an ISO setting of 200 at f/4.0 and a shutter speed ranging from 1/4 to 1/20 of a second. Fortunately, there were no shortage of things to brace myself against when I took my photos, so they turned out to be damn near tripod quality (patting myself on the back for getting quality RAWs indoors and hand held using a long shutter speed).
I have no idea what kind of equipment I’ve captured in this one. If anyone out there is familiar with it, I’d love to know what you think. There’s nothing exceptional about the composition here. It’s the colors and contrast that make me love how this one turned out.
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Tags: art deco, hdr, historical, indoor, North Carolina, Raleigh, The Bain Project, urban decay
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
West Point on the Eno in Durham, NC
I made my second trip out to West Point on the Eno yesterday. I shot this one after chatting with a couple of the folks who work and volunteer at the park on the weekends. They were very hospitable and I walked away knowing the story behind the West Point Mill and also having a better understanding of grist mills in general.
I was surprised at just how much the whole building vibrated when the mill’s machinery was operational. My D200 and tripod were visible moving when I was capturing my bracketed exposures, but fortunately the photo turned out nice and clean.
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Tags: Durham, Eno, grist mill, hdr, historical, indoor, North Carolina, shop, West Point on the Eno
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC
Natalie is growing up so fast and she has such a cool personality. Prior to taking this picture, I had taken a few shots of Kate in the same location. I think that it made Natalie a little jealous. She said “take a picture of me” and climbed the steps to where Kate was standing. Then, she decided that she wanted to be the only one in the pictures so she pushed Kate to the ground. Kate embellished the magnitude of Natalie’s aggression, but she did take a pretty good shot. I cropped Kate out of this photo. She was in the very bottom left corner making a frowny face.
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Tags: balcony, colorful, dinosaur, fossil, hdr, historical, indoor, Kate, museum, Natalie, Natural Sciences Museum, North Carolina, pterosaur, Raleigh, skeleton
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
West Point on the Eno in Durham, NC
I’m not much of a history buff. It’s not that I don’t care about historical things, it’s just hard to find the time to learn about them. This old tobacco barn at West Point on the Eno made for a really nice subject and the redbuds framed the barn nicely.
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Tags: barn, beauty, city park, colorful, country, Durham, Eno Indians, Eno River, farmers, hdr, hike, historical, history, nature, North Carolina, park, redbuds, river valley, rural, rustic, secluded, settlers, Shocco Indians, spring, tobacco, tobacco barn, trail, wagon, West Point on the Eno, woods
