Posts tagged Photography

Daily Walks

2 years ago

by JR in Photography, Travel

I have been trying to get some cardio everyday to keep my goals for Project 35(basically to lose 35lbs this year). I usually start walking around 1 or 2 and walk/hike for an hour or two. Every time I go out I see something unexpected. On Wednesday’s walk, I ran across a few turkeys, a bunch of woodpeckers, some whitetail deer, and a pair of bald eagles. The deer ran away too quickly for me to get a shot of them.

This turkey crossed right in front of me.

I have been chasing this Red Headed Woodpecker all around the lake trying to get a shot.

These guys were sitting above my car when I got back from my walk

When I got back, we realized that I had turned off the faucets in our bathroom last night. The pipes froze up and so my grandfather and I hooked up a shop vac on reverse to blow hot air into the paneling that holds the pipes. It was totally my fault but he took it all in stride. Luckily, the pipes did not burst. It took us about an hour to unfreeze the pipes.

We got some snow on Thursday and today and I will post some more photos later. My grandmother is calling me into the kitchen for something that she has cooked. I swear I am going to gain 20lbs this month. Project 35 may turn into project 75.

The Round House and a Bird

2 years ago

by JR in Photography, Travel

When my Grandfather retired, he and my grandmother moved to New Concord, KY. They left their regular style home in Greenvile, MS and built a round(actually an octagon) house on Kentucky Lake. They have lived here for over 13 years and everyone in the area knows about the round house. In fact, the pilots at the local Air force Base use it as a turn around spot. My grandmother has met a pilot who was thrilled to meet the lady who lived in the brown round house near the lake.

My Grandparent's Home

I was sitting in the den looking at the bird feeder when I noticed a huge black form in the top of one of the trees. I quickly realized that a bald eagle had landed in one of them. I ran out with my camera and was able to get a couple of shots before it flew away. I guess he was camera shy. It was an awesome site and I hope that I get a chance to get some more photos.

This was about when he noticed me.

I think that I am going to rent a longer zoom lens for a couple of weeks. I am currently using a 70-200 f/4. I am thinking about renting a canon 100-400 and maybe a teleconverter. I did have to crop the eagle photos a little too much. I would love to have some super closeups.

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Happy New Year!

2 years ago

by JR in Mississippi Life, Photography, Travel

I hope that everyone had a great New Year~ JJ and I are starting the new year off with a trip to Kentucky to visit my grandparents. We will be in New Concord KY for little over a month. I have a lot of work to do helping my grandfather with some maintenance around his house and I hope to be able to get some great landscape shots of Kentucky Lake and some of the older tobacco barns. It also sounds like we will visit a couple of the distillers while we are in KY. I am looking forward to visiting Jim Beam.

We played around with some sparkles tonight but pretty much had a quiet New Year’s Eve. We spent most of the night packing for our trip! We will leave as soon as we get up in the morning!

Happy 2010

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Study Day Hattiesburg Library

2 years ago

by JR in Mississippi Life, Photography

JJ and I made our way to the Hattiesburg Library today to get some studying time in. JJ studied for a few hours and I walked over to the cemetery next door to get some shots of a tree that I have been wanting to take for awhile now.

I wish that I could say that the library was a great place to study, but there were way to0 many distractions too study peacefully. Two guys were playing a computer game on their laptop right next to us. They even had brought their own controllers. They were cheering at every chance and it got old fast. There was also a guy across from us that was dipping and using a bottle has a spit cup. Thankfully, he was asked to leave. Next time, I will ask them to unlock one of the private study rooms, which I should have done today.

Here are a few shots that I got from the cemetery

I don’t know what holiday the Stars and Bars are out for or for how long, but many of them had been destroyed. I was curious if they were torn down or had just been damaged from the weather that we have been having recently. The father must have fought in the Civil war as he would have been about 30 when war broke out. After seeing this photo and seeing the work by Marty Kittrell and Robert Walker (a couple of great photographers by the way), it makes me realize that I really need to get over to Vicksburg to take some photos around the battlefield.

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