Scaffolding Removal - Fall 2013

The Washington Monument has been closed for renovation since the DC earthquake in August 2011. Last month, they begin to remove the scaffolding surrounding it. When I checked today, a little less than half of the monument was still covered with scaffolding. I snapped this exposure at the beginning of its removal, at the peak of the fall season.

POLICE LINE

There was bus stop on Connecticut Avenue with broken glass. Somebody must have smashed one of the glass panels. Feeling an inspiration, I snapped this photo with me D7000 and my old manual focus 50mm 1.8 Series E pancake.  I stopped the lens down to f/5.6. I recently installed a KatzEye split focus screen on my D7000 which helps with manual focus lenses.

Golden Girl

I was expermenting with my x100 at the Georgetown waterfront when I captured this shot. I had pointed the camera down and waited for this girl to run into my frame. Intrigued by camera, she looked up as she was running past me. I missed the focus on the girl but stopped the aperture down enough to have fairly large DOF.

Values from France

The way the light hit this Perrier display at a grocery store in Telluride, CO inspired me to capture it when I was on vacation there last summer. I framed the shot to include the price.

Good Vibrations 2013

These photos are from my visits to Drummers Circle this past summer. All were taken with my X100.

Junior Drummer

Something Shared

Different Worlds

The Girl in the Pink Dress

Feeling the Beat

Junior Drummer(s)

Roof Top Sunset

This is a shot of a sunset from my roof top that I captured with my X100. It is a SOOC (straight out of the camera) jpeg that I hardly retouched in Lightroom.

Capoeira

Quoting from Wikipedia, Capoeira is "a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music, and is sometimes referred to as a game". The DC Capoeira group was preformed during at the Adam's Morgan Street Festival last Sunday. Shooting Capoeira gave me an opportunity to test my x100's ability to capture action. Unlike my D7000, the x100 is known to be weak at shooting action. To get past this weakness, I used the zone focus method to capture many of these shots. When using manual focus, the camera is much more responsive as there is no shutter lag.

Asleep at Starbucks

There are those moments when I feel a photographic inspiration, but I don't have a camera on me. As my D7000 is too big of a camera to have on me all the time, I recently acquired a Fuji X100 to become my everyday camera.  Being a large sensor compact camera, I can take it basically everywhere with me while maintaining an image quality similar to my D7000. I was in Starbucks in Tentley about a month ago when I captured this shoot. Perhaps if the man had drank his tea he wouldn't have fallen asleep. The photographer of the shot, ordered the drink in the foreground. In the background, a woman is leaving with a drink.

Kayacking

When I was in Colorado last summer, staying in Frisco, I got early one morning and walked out to nearby Lake Dillon. The waters in Lake Dillon were quite calm, although there were a few people taking their kayacks out. Using the calmness of the lake's water as a mirror, I captured this shot.