The World According to Angie

Let Go(d)

I shot this photograph of the Atlantic Ocean on a trip to Florida several years ago. While revisiting older photos last week, it jumped out at me and wanted to play.

A Blanket of Gold

I wish I had the talent to capture the full experience of standing in God's Acre in Old Salem, the sunlight warming our skin, the breeze kissing our cheeks as it rustled through the Ginko tree, freeing its golden leaves to softly, gently fall to earth ... creating a blanket of gold for those at their eternal rest.

This photograph is as close as I could get.

Shot with Nikon D200 + 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Nikkor lens; 1/500s at f/5.6 and ISO 200 at 55mm. Vignette & edge burn applied in Photoshop during post-processing.
 

Peaceful, Golden Rest

I shot this photograph at God's Acre, the cemetery in Old Salem. I was utterly enchanted by the peaceful beauty of this place. The sunshine filtering through the branches of this Ginko tree, setting its leaves alight, took my breath away.

Shot with Nikon D200 + 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Nikkor lens; 1/500s at f/8 and ISO 200 at 18mm.
 

Texas Sky, aflame

While at one of Veronica's football games out in Wylie, waiting oh-so-patiently for the halftime show, I shot a couple frames of the sunset as it began to dip below the school. Add a filter or two in Photoshop, and this is the result: the Texas sky, all aflame.

Shot with Nikon D200 + 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Nikkor lens; 1/8000s at f/5.0 and ISO 800 at 180mm. Post-processing done in Photoshop CS3 (including Rusty Cage from Totally Rad Actions).
 

The moody Atlantic

A shot of the Melbourne Beach (FL) coastline about two hours after sunrise on a chilly 55-degree morning.  I know you're not typically supposed to put the horizon right smack dab in the center of the frame vertically, but I liked the angle of the coastline and the way it draws your eye across the shot.  Plus, the dimensional lighting on the clouds was too cool to cut out.  Shot with Nikon D200 and 55-200mm lens at 55mm, f/4.0 (November 8, 2008).

Melbourne Beach Sunrise

I'm so rarely up early enough to catch the sunrise ... but when you're in Florida, on a hotel facing the Atlantic, and your suite has a balcony overlooking the water, you'd be an idiot not to catch it at least once.  This is what we saw this morning before we left for the airport.  Shot with Nikon D200, 18-55mm lens at 38mm, f/4.8, November 9, 2008.

Saskatchewan Sunset

Shot Tuesday, 28 October 2008 on the drive from Saskatoon to Regina, SK.  Taken hand-held with my Elph on manual mode from a moving vehicle.  Okay, so it's definitely not the right way to take a photograph of a sunset, but I looked for miles for some sort of an exit, and there simply wasn't one.  Instead, I popped open the sunroof, held up the camera, and fired off several frames ... hoping for the best.  I wish I could go back and do it all over again with a tripod and my D200, but this was more about capturing the morment when it happend.

Heaven: THIS WAY

I took this shot on our way in to the Plano Balloon Festival, hand-held with my 55-200mm telephoto lens.  When Veronica saw the print, she was couldn't stop talking about how "cool" it was.  "It's, like, saying - hey, you guys, heaven's THIS WAY!"  Shot September 20, 2008.