Saturday Hike 11/28/2009

Wednesday Morning Storm

Germantown Metro Park Sunset - 11/4/2009

Sunday Hike

Kyle and I went hiking at Fort St. Clair in Eaton today. Here's a few of the shots I took.

Octoberfest Photos

Saturday was our towns Octoberfest Parade & celebration. I posted a lot of photos on my FLICKR site and on Facebook, but wanted to post this one here as well. It's my favorite of the 100+ photos I took that day.

Red October

I got up early this morning and headed out to catch the sunrise when I saw it's first glimpse in the East. What a beautiful morning we had. Hope you enjoy these photos!

Friday Night Music

My friend Tony Howard asked me to come see his band perform last night and to bring my camera, so could resist free music and a chance to take photos?

Tony had his father on Steel Guitar, Chubby Howard, and Rusty Rhoads as well. Rusty came in from Nashville to play at a show in Fairborn this Sunday and sat in with the band. If you've never heard of Rusty, he played Steel Guitar for Kid Rock, yes Kid Rock!

Long story short, it was a great show with some great music.

Sunset

Was lucky enough to get out last night and snap a few sunset photos. Going urban photo shooting tonight with a friend, should be interesting.

Sunday Hike

Imagine walking beneath a canopy of trees while watching the sumbeams break through as the sun rises, giving you a wonderful show of colors and light. That's what I did Sunday morning at Five Rivers Metro Park - Germantown. I set an alarm to get up early, had my backpack and camera equipment packed and ready to go, and was there when the park opened (not a usual thing for me to do on a Sunday morning!). It was 68 degrees and humid when I got there, but the shade kept me comfortable. I hiked about 4 1/2 - 5 miles for the better part of 3 hours, stopping to take photos along the way and really enjoyed myself. I've included one of my favorite shots here, and you can go to my photo site to see more.

BLOG Name Change

Some of you may be noticing a name change to my BLOG. There is good reason for this. Several times over the past month I have sat down to write a post and the idea of talking about sales and marketing just isn't that exciting. Yes, I still work as an Account Executive, but when I leave the office, I turn that part of my life off and don't want to talk about it or anything to do with it. My real passion, other than my family, is photography, especially nature photography.

I do plan to write more as I travel around, taking photos, talking to unusual and interesting people, and making my photos available for purchase from my website (I have a link on my home page to purchase photos now!).

Enjoy This One

Fiver River Metroparks

Spent part of the day today with Dana looking at the Germantown Metro Park, part of the Greater Dayton areas Five River Metroparks. I had never been there, it was a wonderful day for a walk, we really enjoyed it. I took this photo at the Valley Lookout section of the park, and can't wait to get there this Autum when the leaves are changing. Click on the photo to enlarge it.

Agriculture Photos

Spent the majority of Saturday at my Aunt & Uncles home in South Charleston. I was wanting to get some photos around the farmland surrounding the area, but instead it decided to rain all day. Bad for me, good for them as they needed the rain.

Sunday, July 5th

Spent part of the day today taking pictures of the Courthouse in Eaton. I guess the best way to see a Courthouse is from the outside.

Flower Power

Calage of flower photos I've recently taken. Click on the photo to enlarge it.

Happy Fathers Day

A few photos from our cookout today.

High Dynamic Range Imaging

I've been playing around with HDR Imaging the past few days, and it's fascinating. Click here to see the definition of HDR on Wiki-pedia. I'm loading an image taken directly from my camera and the after photo after working with the HDR software. It's quite stunning here on my monitor, and I hope it shows well here. Click on the photos to enlarge them and you can begin to see the difference. Top photo is original, bottom is combo of 4 photos taken at different EV settings and combined with the software to create one photo.

Drums and More

Took this photo of my drums. Got the new cymbal stand on the right a few days ago. Also, a photo of my 1983 Electra Endorser in Cherry Sunburst.

43rd Birthday Celebration

Had a great birthday party on Saturday. Dana surprised me with a new set of Pearl Drums! Kyle helped me put them together. I love them, but the dogs aren't quite sure what to make of them yet.

1 Week on Twitter

For the past week, I've been active on Twitter. Even though I've had the account for quite a while, I never used the system. Since becoming active, at the time of this writing, I have 110 followers, and I'm following 113 others. Pretty incredible to make over 100 new friends online in less than a week.

I've known a few of the people I'm following, but for 95% of it, it's new people with similar interests in technology, culture, music, etc. And get this, the list keeps growing. Every day.

I have had a very positive experience to date. People are polite, no flame wars that I have seen or been part of, and have learned a lot from many different people. How great is it to meet that many new people in less than a week, and have instant access?

Heading to Keeneland Racetrack tomorrow. Our division won a sales contest so everyone (including support personnel, we couldn't sell without their help) are taking a charter bus trip for the opening day of racing. Should be exciting.

New Ride

For the past few months, Dana and I have been looking at cars, and for those of you who know us, you know we can't agree on much of anything when it comes to vehicles. That all changed Monday night when we went to Boose Chevrolet in Brookville and fell in love the 2009 Chevy Impala SS. Look at the photos and judge for yourself. What's not to love? 5.3 liter V8 engine (yes, V8 and still front wheel drive), 18 inch rims, low profile tires, gray leather interior. Oh, and did I tell you it's fast? You won't see it in your rear view mirror much, we'll be past you before you get a second glance.

We just picked it up this evening. We had them add the paint protection and Scotch Guard the interior.

Check out all the photos on my Flicker Site by clicking here. Click on any of the photos here to enlarge them.

Junior High Band Concert