Contest result

Thanks to everyone for the encouraging comments about my I Heart Faces entry. The winner was announced today and.... it wasn't me. Just like in high school, where I was salutatorian, I came in second. If you want to check out the top five finishers, click here. Congrats to Skeller who came in fourth with a very cool shot of her son. This was a fun contest and since they have a new one every week, I'm sure I'll be entering another one. I would encourage any of you who enjoy taking photos to enter a contest. Get your work out there and also see what others are doing.

I Heart Faces

This is my submission for the I Heart Faces weekly photo contest. Check out their blog.

Room for thinking

Palm tree sky

Check out my workflow

Over at Jason D. Moore's photo blog he has posted a tutorial that I wrote about processing one of my images. Go check it out and then leave me a comment telling me what you thought. Click here to go to the post.

Reflections of Christmas

Me and my little man having fun around the purple tree.

Forbidden fruit

My wife got her (ahem) Twilight perfume in the mail today and I thought the bottle looked pretty cool. I'm always looking to improve my "studio lighting" and small flash skills so I thought that I'd have a go at making an image. After much trial and error, and some fun in post production, this is what I had in mind.

Festive kitty

I decided to commit to taking a picture each day for the next year. I won't be posting every day (although I hope to make that more frequent) but I do want to pick up my camera every day and make an image. Having decided that, I picked up my camera tonight and searched around the house for something to shoot. Fortunately one of my big fluffy kitties (Lupin) was perched on the couch with the purple Christmas tree in the background. And so begins the grand experiment.