With twist of Blue

Golf Images from St. Albans

The Postcard

Clubhouse and Clouds

On the Tee Box

On the Green

Will It Drop?

Tournament Day

On the Range

Today's post are from images that I took yesterday serving as an event photographer for the annual St. Louis Arc's golf tournament at the Country Club of St. Albans in St. Louis. The weather and light were spectacular.

MDC Nature Photographer

Noppadol Paothong

Noppadol Paothong is the staff photographer for the Missouri Department of Conservation. Many of his images can be found in the Missouri Conservationist magazine with a monthly readership of 500,000. His website and blog give some first hand idea sof the life, technique and equipment of someone doing nature photography for a living. It sounds harder than I would have expected with hours and hours spent waiting quietly in a blind for just the right moment. I think many of us wonder what it would be like to make our living doing something that most of us do for pleasure. I hope this is usefull.

Working in America-Washington Metal Fabricators

Worker

Worker 2

Tools of the Trade



Using the Machines

Parts

Can You Guess

Gone for the Day

Close Encounters



God is in the Details



Machines

Scrap !

Precision

Tubes in Black and White

Yesterday I did a photo shoot with some friends at a Washington Metal Fabricators. Unfortunately the plant was mostly finished for the day but it still presented a number of great shots. So much of the time I am shooting, dead or dying buildings and industrial locations so it was great to get to shoot a living, working plant. WMF is very much alive and well. Enjoy these images from a real live Midwestern manufacturing company.

The Death of the Merchant of Venice



Mississippi River and Merchants Bridge



A Giant in Decline

The Wound

Her Majesty

St. Louis

Today's post are from a recent series of images shot just North of the down town area of St. Louis. I call this the Death of the Merchant of Venice as it is in and around a recently renovated bridge across the Mississippi called what else the Merchant's Bridge. It connects North St. Louis with Venice IL. Just accross the river into Illinois is an Ameren UE power station which is being demolished. It is a place grand in scale and size as the river, the bridge and the power station as well as the views back toward the city are all grand in scale.

Great photographs in and around water - Jonathan Critchley

Jonathan Critchley web site

Riverfront in Spring Iphoneography

Just an example of what you can do with an Iphone and Photoshop Elements. The real image is quite large and I plan on printing it on our large format plotter. The way you compensate for a small sensor is to take multiple images and stitch them together. This image was taken with the camera/Iphone held vertically to maximize the amount of data in each shot. 6 shots were taken, downloaded to my PC and stitched together in Photoshop Elements. I have attached a how to link to just one of many  Youtube video instruction- creating panorama in Photoshop Elements.

Clayton Lacrosse Varsity VS Rockwood Summit Varsity Game Photos

I have created a photo album of selected game photos.  Go to this link Game Photos on Picasa

Images for Clayton LAX Posted to Picasa

I have created a Picasa album for the Clayton Lacrasse Jamboree JV game photos. Click the link and it will take you to the game photos. I have not sorted or edited these. The album is rather large so it may take some time to download.   Clayton Lacrosse Jamboree JV Game photos Clayton VS Kirkwood

The Joy of Large format Photography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pawk3OLBdE&feature=related

A little very dry humor for those who practice this past time. Enjoy. FYI. I think this is really well done.