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The River Railroad

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The River Railroad

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Today’s Photo: The River Railroad

Most of the time I go exploring on my own or with my family.  When I am by myself, I tend to get lost in my own world.  When with my family, I am worried about having fun with everyone and don’t pay as much attention to photography.  Going out with other photographers is something that I rarely get to do, but have so much fun.  I stopped to get a shot looking the other way down these tracks, but changed my focus when the person I was shooting with started taking photos this direction.  It turned out to be a great composition.

Entrance to the Gardens

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Entrance to the Gardens

Today’s Photo: Entrance to the Gardens

Last winter is the first time I have been to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.  We did not go for the normal flora, but instead for the Garden Lights exhibit.  As we were waiting on everyone to get ready to go into the park, I took a quick shot of the entrance landscaping.

Presents

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Presents

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Today’s Photo: Presents

Last December, I was taking photos in downtown Calhoun.  I did not know that I would find some giant presents just waiting for me.  Although the Christmas lights were not all that I wanted, there were a few other good opportunities for some night time photography.

Light Painting

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Light Painting

Today’s Photo: Light Painting

Saturday night, I was called by my brother and asked if the kids wanted to play with some glow sticks.  I thought it would be a great time for some interesting photos.  Instead of light sticks, we had glow necklaces, bracelets and emergency flashlights.  I decided to have a little fun with the emergency flashlight.  One side is a glow stick, whistle and the other side is a small led flashlight.  For this shot, I turned on both the flashlight and glow stick.  I did not have much trouble remembering where I ran the glow stick for multiple passes.  I can still see the led light burned into my retina.

Little Tracks

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Little Tracks

Today’s Photo: Little Tracks

As most young boy’s, I was fascinated by trains when I was little.  I still am to a small degree.  Add lots of bright lights, reflections, a fast moving scale train and I am in heaven.  This shot was taken at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens Garden Lights exhibit.  It was probably one of the most difficult to take.  There were so many people working their way around the scene that I had to dodge the pedestrians to get a few shots.  Well worth the fight though.

Cartersville Train Depot

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Cartersville Train Depot

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Today’s Photo: Cartersville Train Depot

I took a stroll around downtown Cartersville the other night.  For anyone that knows, it was not a long stroll.  However, it was kinda pleasant.  It was not so cold that it was unbearable, but it sure beats the heat we usually have around here.  Too bad this was the weekend that was the calm before the storm.  I mean, three days of constant rain and another one predicted.  At least it made for a few good photo opportunities.  Those photos shall be posted soon.

Station 11

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The Perfect Storm

So, I am finally back after weathering the perfect storm.  Last week, I discovered that the site had bee infected by one of the “Pharma” hacks.  I set aside time for fixing it last week, was successful, and then spend the weekend with my wife.  Round two…

Sunday morning, I had a hard drive failure.  Not just any hard drive, the one with my last years worth of photos.  NOT good… In fact, really, really, BAD.  I have spent the last week in recovery mode.

At least it was not a hardware failure.  It was just a write error, CRC for anyone that knows.  Of the approximately 100,000 photos from the last year, I only lost about 2000.  Most of those were from two different time lapses that I had finished working on and exported.  It just kinda bites that I will not be able to go back and adjust anything in them now.

Lesson 1 – 10:  BACK-UP everything and frequently.  I now have several hard drives that I am going to be keeping synced.

Station 11

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Today’s Photo:  Station 11

Last weekend, prior to the crash, I went to Midtown Atlanta for some nighttime skyline shots.  My plan was to shoot from the 17th street bridge south.  Unfortunately, that side of the bridge was closed for construction work and I could not get what I wanted.  I did get this shot from the Atlantic Station side of the bridge.  The 11 is on the side of Atlanta Fire Department Station 11.  I’m gonna wait a couple months and hope that the construction is gone and try again.

Windblown Orion

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Windblown Orion

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Today’s Photo: Windblown Orion

This has to be one of my favorite photos of the starts.  It is hard for me to get good shot of the stars being this close to Atlanta, but I manage occasionally.  I took this one near the observatory on the grounds of the Tellus Museum.  I could not pass it up and was pleased with the wind blowing the trees around.  There was enough ambient light near the ground to light the trees up fairly well and keep the stars looking good.

The Rock

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The Rock

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Today’s Photo: The Rock

Happy Easter to everyone out there.  This has been the oddest Easter I can remember in forever.  Around here, the Dogwood trees always bloom at Easter.  That has not happened yet, so it does not feel like it should be Easter.  Maybe next week, the dogwoods will finally bloom.

Mershon Hall Beyond the Lights

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Mershon Hall Beyond the Lights

Today’s Photo: Mershon Hall Beyond the Lights

This was my third favorite photo from my trip through the Garden Lights display.  I waited until the very end to take it.  I had been taking photos of a couple Admiring the Tree and then through out the Green and Blue Twinkling Terrace.  It started raining fairly descent and my family took shelter on the porch of the Day Hall.  This shot was from just under the overhang.

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