ISO 100, f/4.5, 1/30 sec, Canon EOS 7D, EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

When we were in the Smoky Mountains, we went to Ripleys Aquarium. I hadn't really tried to photograph inside an aquarium before, but it is quite hard! The low light and glass makes it tricky to get a clear shot.

I had brought my 'nifty 50' me so I could keep the shutter speed up in such low light. This photo isn't exactly clear, but not too bad for my first attempt. In the future I'll need to increase the ISO a bit.

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ISO 200, f/8.0, 1/160 sec, Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi, EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

When I was in Washington DC at the beginning of June, I snapped several photos but none of them really impressed me. Today I took some time to bring this photo from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial into Topaz Adjust. I gave it bit of an oil painting look with a bit of HDR. What do you think?

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ISO 500, f/5.0, 1/640 sec, Canon EOS 7D, EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

The last trip we took to the Outer Banks, we went on a dolphin watch cruise. It is very hard to catch the dolphins as they are coming out of the water. By the time you focus the camera and snap a few photos, they are already on their way back under the surface. I took several hundred photos on the cruise, and almost all of them are of the backs of the dolphins with their heads under the water. I need to get a faster lens and more experience trying to anticipate where the dolphins will surface.

Anyways, one of the few photos where you can actually see the head of a dolphin is above. My mom loves dolphins, so this is for her.

If any of my sisters are reading this.... Favorite!

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ISO 200, f/7.1, 30 sec, Canon EOS 7D, EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Here is another shot of the Kitty Hawk Pier, only at night this time. This was a long exposure (30sec), and you can see the pilings at the end of the pier in this shot.

I really enjoy photography at night. This is probably my favorite photo from our last OBX trip. We might get it printed and hang it in the house.

This photo is mostly right out of the camera. I did add a bit of fill light in Lightroom 3 to show more of the beach, but other than that, not much else was done to the photo.

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ISO 100, f/4.0, 1/500 sec, Canon EOS 7D, EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

On a recent trip to the Outer Banks, I took this photo of the Kitty Hawk Fishing Pier. The pier used to be much longer, but storms and hurricanes have reduced the length quite a bit. From the pier itself, you can see the old pilings still further out past the end of the pier.

I added a sepia tone and a bit of edge vignette in Lightroom 3. I had taken several photos from this spot, but this is the only one that didn't have a shadow of myself in it. I need to get better about catching those on the small LCD on the back of the camera.

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ISO 100, f/10.0, 1/250 sec, Canon EOS 7D, EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

There is a bird lookout near the Bodie Island Lighthouse on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and that's where this photo was taken. I had hoped for glass-smooth water to get a perfect reflection of the clouds, but closer to shore the water was beginning to ripple a bit.

The photo directly out of the camera looked great, but I took it into CS5 to add a bit of tone mapping via the HDR tool.

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ISO 100, f/22, 1/6 sec

Here is another shot from the Smoky Mountains. I did a small amount of HDR from a single exposure using Topaz Adjust, and then faded it a bit in Photoshop.

I know I've been bad about posting lately. I'll try to be better about it.