Ice storm

Well we got hit with a ice storm here in Birmingham. It was sleet then rain that froze at my home and my car got covered in nice thin sheet of ice. It made for some interesting photos out of the car window.

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Smoke

Not to long ago I saw an image that really struck me as cool and unusual. It was of smoke. But with its unique and cool shape it looked almost painted. I never looked at anything burning that put out smoke the same way again. Some awesomely cool things occur in nature, but many times we don't notice them. Well I then set out to learn how to create some smoke images myself. After much searching, some reading and much playing with techniques, I finally got some very cool results. Here are a few.

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F16's landing at Birmingham Airport

Well a college buddy had posted something on his facebook about an event that intrigued me. He mentioned that a high school friend of his would be flying into the airport and doing a couple flyby's before they landed. His buddy is a F16 pilot, and then after the landing the guests got to go out and see the plane up close. He had been doing this for a few years during the summer, when many of his graduating classmate had an annual get together. Well never having been to an airshow or such, I figured it would be interesting to go and see if I could get any interesting photos of the planes in flight. Well got many photos, and many came out well, but on I believe the last pass before landing one of the F16's banked right and pretty much was in a sharp turn almost directly overhead and with my telephoto lens I pretty much filled the frame with the plane. These photos are not cropped from a larger original this is basically the image straight from the camera. Yeah they were pretty close. Unfortunately displaying them at this size just doesn't do them justice, but full size on a nice 32" screen is pretty awesome.

It was very cool, and a little loud from the jet engine's roar.

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Random stuff

I was gonna challenge myself to post more here, not of family or such but some random, but interesting shots. So here is one to start off with.

No I am not a smoker, I was visiting with a neighbor and they smoke so I thought the randomness of how the cigarettes are laying in the bucket was cool in an artistic kinda way.

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Photos of me

Well anyway I was working the last night and testing the camera and took a few funny photos. Just thought I would share.

Normal

Funny

Just strange.

I was at a Luau party and most everybody was into the theme and a few people had some really funny things like these glasses. Not sure why I had them but oh well.

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Trip to Fort Morgan

Got to make a trip down to Fort Morgan, AL and to stay at the Beach Club (www.beachclubal.com) for a few days. My sister had planned the trip while my mom was visiting them in Louisiana. Got to see my favorite niece, and she is always entertaining and I always try and get a few good pictures of her.

Also got to take some time to actually go see the fort that the area is named after. Very interesting location.

Hiding

Mother and daughter with new sunglasses

She wanted to try on the sunglasses as well

The view of the beach from our room

Within Fort Morgan

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Engagement photos

I got to do some engagement shots for Elizabeth and Todd today. We got to do a few different locations and really had a good time. They were awesome to work with and I really look forward to shooting their wedding in November.

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Senior photos

I got to work with Allison today. She was a little nervous, but we still got some good shots.

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Another Crawfish Boil

Sometimes I really love my job. Anytime some good food comes with taking photos I always look forward to that. I got to shoot another Crawfish Boil and eat some great food. Besides the crawfish, they had, sausage, corn, and potatoes, and some gumbo. Here are a few shots of the food.

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Crawfish Boil

I got to attend and shoot a Crawfish Boil this weekend. The guy cooking was from Louisiana and did a great job with the crawfish. Here are a few shots of those delicious crawdad's. Just looking at these is making my mouth water again.

You can see some steam coming off these, they had just come out of the pot.

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Waterfalls in Bankhead National Forest

Got up very early this morning to take a trip to some remote waterfalls about 80 miles from my home in the Birmingham area. He is what we found.

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Snow in Birmingham

Well they predicted snow, and I knew it would come, but was skeptical that it would stick or accumulate. Well it did but it wasn't around for long. In Birmingham its is always cold enough for snow in January and February but rarely does the moisture come thru to produce snow. It always seems that it isn't until March that we can get the right combination of conditions to produce snow. And it was odd, only about a week before it was in the 70's.

Here are a few shots from around my house.

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Old railroad cars

I came across these photos from this summer that I shot that I was too busy to process and post at the time. I had forgotten about them, but found them. Here are a couple.

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