RMSP Weekend

I spent the weekend in Jacksonville at a Rocky Mountain School of Photography weekend workshop. It was a really great experience. Although I would have liked to see a little "in the field" instruction, the five class sessions that I attended were really helpful. I'm looking forward to taking my new lessons out on the road! Although I didn't do a whole lot of shooting, I did take some pictures at dinner at The Landings. I'm really looking forward to relying a lot less on the automatic settings on my camera and moving to the manual settings. The two pictures below were a result of one of the classes I took, Using the Zone System for Color. The first shot was using the automatic night time mode on my camera. The second was taken using the manual setting and applying the zone system method.

























I then proceeded to have a photo shoot with Jon and a lemon at dinner. It took me about 30 shots to get those, but I suppose that's the reason to have a digital camera!

























I had a really great time at the workshop, and would love the opportunity to go to the school... we'll see if that happens! In the meantime, I'm really excited about practicing all the new techniques that I learned. The photos below are two others I took at The Jacksonville Landings.

My favorite baby

While I was in West Palm Beach for Thanksgiving, I had the pleasure of photographing my favorite baby, Donnie. He was a lot of fun! He's almost a year old now (His birthday is December 11), and he's really figured out what cameras are for and that he's adorable. These are my favorites:

There's no place like home

I think that Dorothy was maybe on to something- being home is a good thing. I can't complain, because although I was away for two weeks, I was in Paris and West Palm Beach.

Paris was great. It was cold, busy, and a little stressful workwise (transit strikes make everything a little more difficult!!), but I did get the opportunity to do some picture taking while I was there.

Votive lights in Sacre Cours


The Eiffel Tower


Notre Dame




I'll post the rest (there are a ton!) shortly!

On the road again!

I'm leaving Friday afternoon for PARIS! I just got a new tripod in the mail that's lighter and more compact than the tripod I have, so it will be making the trip with me. It will allow me to get those nice night shots a little better, without the shaking!

I'm going for work, so it won't be all play, but I will try and take (and post) as many good pictures as possible!


The Paris Hotel, Las Vegas.... from the fake place to the real one!

Go Gators!

I had the pleasure of watching the Gators kill Vanderbilt for Homecoming last weekend. The weekend started out on Friday night with Gator Growl in the skybox, complete with back stage access to the Lynard Skynard performance.


Orange and Blue



Lynard Skynard

Game Day in the Swamp!


I wish I could take credit for the other pictures, below, but I can just take credit for the first one, who was the photographer for the others.






For all my Homecoming pictures (the good ones and the bad ones!) go to http://www.kaskelweb.com/pics/thumbnails.php?album=23

Shallow depth of field

One of my favorite photo effects is creating shallow depth of field. That basically means that an element in the picture is in focus, while the background (or foreground) is blurry. It makes for a nice effect, causing an element to "pop."

The ones below are the horrible fortune Jon got in his fortune cookie, my better fortune, and a rose.

Viva Las Vegas!

I just got back from Las Vegas for work. I love visiting the city- for about three days. It's easy to get your fill of Las Vegas pretty quickly. I like to gamble a little bit, but I mainly like to go see the hotels, eat the food, and watch the crazy people.

The stage at Zumanity, New York, New York

Paris balloon

Parasols Up, Parasols Down at the Wynn

One of the lions in the lion habitat at the MGM Grand (photo credit to Jon!)


The fountains at the Bellagio

Neon lights at Planet Hollywood.

Chihuly glass in the Bellagio lobby ceiling.

MGM Grand Lion outside our hotel

New York, New York- one of my favorite hotels!


For all my Vegas pictures (the good ones and the bad ones!) go to http://picasaweb.google.com/angelatweedie/VegasOctober