Bee-ing patient

Recently I shot the picture of a bumblebee landing on a sunflower at a home in Denton. The thing is it took me at least an hour waiting for yellow and black stripped bug to land on that specific flower.

Several things I had to get to make the picture work.
1) The bumblebee had to be in the picture and it had to be in the right spot of the frame.
2) The light had to hit the bee and flower just right.
3) The wind had to stop blowing so the sunflower would stop moving messing up my focus.

The best comment I received was that the photo looked like a painting. This is probably due to the blueish/cyan background and that the bumblebee isn't sharp but instead shows the bug in motion.

Better lucky, than good.

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Blogging from the iPhone

It's 2am and I am writing to you from the my bed on my iPhone. No not the new one that just came out but the old one that is just as good. I belive this will come I'm handy and I can blog from games or other assignments Im at where there is down time. Some of it will be photojournalism related other times it will be about something else like my new hobbie. Paintball.

So let the blogging begin.

UPDATE:
I followed the directions on how to blog from the iPhone but no luck yet on my tests. So as I eat some tacos I will be working to get this blog moving.

A kick in the ass

Okay so a friend of mine just pointed out that I haven't posted to my blog in a few weeks. Well actually months and so with his prodding and after having a busy start to a year I am know back in full post mode.

It's the end of soccer, and the beginning of softball and baseball season after a crazy first of the year dealing with basketball. A sport in which I love dearly because it's an indoor sport with air conditioning, the game is fast past, the action is better and i played basketball some when I was in high school.

Anyway getting back to the point I hate shooting baseball and softball. More so baseball than anything, at least in softball things happen when somebody gets on base. I suspect that most other people also find baseball/softball tedious to shoot because the lack of constant action. So here is what I do to make it fun for me to shoot.

1) be creative with angles. I've shot

well Ive got to interrupt this blog have to run on an accident.

Okay Im back. The accident panned out to be serious but not major.

1) Be creative with angles. I've shot many different angles of the pitcher, batter and batter leading off from first and sliding into second, third and home plate.

2) Off the field action. What is the coach doing if they are calling plays or talking to the dug out that might make for a good photo. What are people in the dugout doing there could be a photo there.

3) I look to get a good shot of the catcher flinging off his helmet for the a loose ball havent gotten it just right yet but i'll get there.

These ares some of the things that I do to make it bearable to stand out in the sun for hours.


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New Years resolutions, fire and the iPhone

This is gonna be short. First this is a test for my iphone to see if can write to my blog. So far so good.

Second my resolution this year is to write more on this blog. At least once a week.

Lastly I want to mention something about the tanker truck fire photo on my website. One man was killed in the explosion. And another was hurt. When I was told about it I wasn't sure I would make it out to the site. Remarkably, I did, even with both directions of traffic shutdown. The photo was selected as Editor & Publisher Photo of the Week and wasselected as Texas AP photo of the month.

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