The beginning of my "phonetography"!

I have left the stone age. No more 8 year old flip phone!!!!

I went and got myself an iPhone 4S yesterday, and plan to start a more casual daily entry from my phone.

Woooo! I'm really enjoying this smartphone stuff! Haha.

Angry skies rolling through.

Here it comes. We've been under tornado watch on and off until 10PM. Some areas of DFW have had hail, and severe wind damage.

 I JUST HOPE I DON'T LOSE THE INTERNET!

 -_-
 I think I was being sarcastic......... maybe?

Snowy drive home

A Texas snow storm! Yeah, it was only about 2 inches max... I was on my way back home from Lubbock, and couldn't resist opening up my camera back and wiggling out my camera for some snowy roadside pictures. This wasn't too easy seeing that way out here in nowheresville, the roads aren't fully cleared of ice and snow.

Great Tree

Behold, The Great Tree.

Okay, The Great(est) Tree in the front yard of my buddy Marks house. I really just love this one. Lots of lines and shadows and a beautiful color composition.

Memory upgrade!

Got my 8GB of RAM in the mail a few days back. Got it from Crucial They have an awesome system scanner that will pull up the compatible hardware for your machine! I'm feeling the difference for sure. 4GB wasn't limiting me, but now that I've got 8GB I can browse my iPhoto library, play around with Photomatix, jam some iTunes, keep my e-mail active, browse the internet, maybe play some Minecraft every now and again! haha. I may be being a little sarcastic with that one, but I can honestly say that I can do much more than one thing at a time without getting bogged down!

This upgrade really smooths everything out. More frequent posts?

We shall see!!!

Beyond focal infinity!

It's beginning to become more clear every day. I'm soaking up all kinds of skills recently. I've been researching time lapse, night photography, star trails, and astrophotography. I'm still not the best walker, but this post-surgery experience has been super! I can't really get in the "photographers groove" being unable to squat, bend my knee, crouch, and get in all those other crazy, yet necessary positions needed for the best shot. After seeing some amazing work by Ben Canales, who is quickly becoming one of my absolute favorite photographers. I just HAD to get out there and get my hands on some night photography! Busted out the 10.5mm f/2.8 fisheye and I was out the back door!

Here are the top shots from my brief backyard session tonight:

@ f/4 - 20 sec - ISO 2500

@ f/2.8 - 2.6 sec - ISO 2500

@ f/4 - 58 sec - ISO 2500

@ f/5 - 19 sec - ISO 2500

@ f/4 - 4 sec - ISO 2500

A little moisture after the storm...

We had a little rainfall a few days back, and there was a nice deep orange sunset afterwards. My step dad wasn't having the best of days at work. (Bad weather and being a walking mail carrier isn't the same as peanut butter is to jelly.)

He text my mom and said that this sunset might make up for the rest of the day...

Anyone who enjoys taking pictures just KNOWS this is when you rush to the nearest camera and get out the door ASAP!

I unfortunately didn't have my gear on me, but he had his Coolpix P80 out in the living room.
So I popped off a few shots for him, and obviously got carried away playing with the lights of the passing traffic.

Blurry Jeep and lily pad frog statue:

Headlights and the shutter speed of light:

This was the same night we got some super eerie fog as well!!!


Planes, trains, and automobiles:

Train tracks with a dash of light:

The first and last thing we saw of the nuclear train disaster: