The Great Frederick Fair

A Recent Book Cover Photo

One of my photographs, cropped and 'shopped, adorns the front cover of author Tim Kent's Yell Like Furies.

You can see the book here, and  the original photograph here.

Back In The Day

I bought my first digital camera back in 1997.  It was a Kodak DC120.  It had a whopping one megapixel imaging chip, a 3X zoom lens, and took forever and a day to power up, shut down, and wait between shots.  I bought a 15 megabyte CF card to go with it.  I paid $999.00 for the camera and something over $200.00 for the CF card.  I actually sold a Leica M6 with a 50mm Summilux lens to bankroll this purchase.

It was essentially a point and shoot camera;  albeit with manual override.  Despite the fact that I was shooting my real world jobs with a Cambo 4x5, and a bunch of Hasselblads and Nikons, I thought it was as cool as anything I'd ever held in my hands.

I stumbled across what were some of the first pictures I ever shot with it recently in the course of reorganizing my archives.  Here are four of them.

The Composer

Through the Back Window

West Third & Market St.

I went to Frederick's "In the Street' Festival for about an hour today.  Charles "Big Daddy Stallings" and his band were making a lot of people very happy.

 

From the Cruise

'Dubs at Everedy Square

What I Did on My Birthday...

Yesterday, I took a short ride, subjected one of my D300's to a few minutes of intense snowfall, and shot this.

At the Scene of the Crime

This guy had no problem remaining at the scene of the crime yesterday. That bird feeder is supposed to be in a tree...

Autumn is Coming...

...and if you have any doubt, check the Weis Market entrance area....

Spring...

...has officially replaced Autumn as my favorite season. They're both beautiful times of the year here, but Autumn isn't tainted with the large scale leaf management operation that I have to anticipate as winter approaches...

Time Passes

I shot this yesterday. Here's what it looked like in 2005.

Heavy Metal

Baker Park

From My Files

A couple of pseudo HDR shots from a lake near my brother's house taken in December 2005.

Gambrill Park Road

5 Minutes at Monocacy Battlefield Park

South Carroll Street

No Snow, Just Infrared

I need to get out and shoot more digital infrared pictures. This was one of my early efforts, taken with a Nikon D1x and a B+W 093 filter. It's the bridge over Catoctin Creek on Sumantown Road. There's a lot of noise shadow areas in the image.