Day two with my baby back!!!
And what better way to celebrate the second day of my baby being back than by posting some pics from tonight’s youth service at church? I have a secret in store for tomorrow’s blog post so hopefully these couple of pics will hold you over!!
As always, enjoy!!
Yes, we have a pool table in our youth room 
Robbie in the cafe before service started
AJ demonstrating what it means to be a servant... new testament style!
A larger shot of our awesome chairs and couches and lights!
Oooh, a new friend? I think so!! She’s a Condor!! lol
So yes, continuing in my 2011 theme to get stocked up for the zombie-pacolypse (or more likely find new toys to try for trap shooting), I picked up a shotgun on the recommendation of my friend who sold me my Remmy 870 two years ago.
I picked up a Stoeger Condor in 12 gauge with 28″ barrel. It was under $400 out the door (well under) and looks like a beaut. I see extremely polarized opinions on the gun online so I’m hoping I got a good one. I haven’t cleaned it yet (to get rid of the packing grease) but I have until this saturday when I visit PG Trap and Skeet again. 
Even if you don’t like guns, please, as always, enjoy the pictures… ENJOY
Stoeger Condor out of the box
Assembled
Breach loading over and under
Details...
Dirty details...
More details...
Still more details...
Surprise! More details still!! lol
Christmas at the Dyer’s…
Merry Christmas Everyone
Double Diptyc? lol
Mom's excited about the new columbia jacket!!
Oooh, Mojo golf balls!
I got mom a GPS with lifetime maps
I got my brother a pinhole adapter for his canon
Dad's opening the laptop bag I got him xD
I got a scarf... what did you expect me to do with it?!
If you didn’t see the Christmas present I got… look back a few posts and you’ll find it
Photography light study… of sorts…
As a photographer, you’ve gotta challenge yourself at times to stay on your A-game. One of the ways to do that is to look at other photographer’s techniques and mimic them. Then you get to learn some nifty tricks about lighting. I didn’t nail these perfectly but then again when you’re using a magazine cover as a gobo and a magazine subscription card as a snoot, you can’t expect perfection lol. I tried though.
- Deleted for copyright reasons.
- Tom Hanks by a famous photographer
My brother as tom hanks lol
Yeah, the different colored jackets is one of those small details that I just went with because of what was available lol. The light isn’t QUITE as concentrated on the face as I shot it but my space to shoot in was extremely limited so I couldn’t move my main snooted light back any further. The background light is a single SB600 pointed at the back wall. Both flashes were triggered with cheapo RF602s from china
This second light study was from a strobist posting…
- Again, deleted for copyright reasons.
- Original strobist post…
Looking at this one in retrospect, I really missed it lol. I’ll try it again later lol.
Close but meh lol
Enjoy!!
Getting out of your car in an I-95 tunnel during rush hour traffic…
Sometimes you just have to stop and smell the carbon monoxide… er, something like that.
And sometimes you have to take two crops of a rare capture to remind yourself that
a) It’s a rare capture and you didn’t have time to think enough about your composition
b) You could hear an emergency vehicle approaching from behind and you should really get back in your car
Yeah. lol. Enjoy.
(both pictures today are links to the originals since these small sizes don’t do justice!)
Baltimore Ft. McHenry Tunnel
Do you like this one better?
One blog down, two more waiting in the wing…
Greetings readers!!
I’ll have you know I was reading a friend’s blog and it really made me feel inadequate as a blogger. One simple picture as an illustration and ten million words talking about the picture. It was awkward thanks to the page being filled with words. All I could think was “Man, she must be super smart!” And then all I could think was “I wonder if people assume I’m dumber because I use less words and more pictures to showcase the world around me?”
Thoughts?
With that introduction, I’d like to present to you pictures of my brother (again? sheesh! blog-hog!!) baking a cake. (One of his other loves)
I leave you with the creepiest kitchen picture EVER…
Feel dumber now? lol
LiT leaders… make an announcement video?
A couple of them to be exact (and correct my own title lol).
Today, the LiT leaders went upstairs with video-master J. Kisser to make a sweet set of videos for the kids. Here are some pics from the video shoot.
(who was dumb enough to give me the boom mic??)
(when did I get smart enough to grab my 11-16 while I held the boom!? lol)
Enjoy
Jason prepping...
Two cross light setup (one out of frame to my right)
The ladies do their announcement...
Panzer poses...
Panzer gets face-mic'ed!!
J. Kisser adjusts the multi-hundred dollar tripod thingamajigger lol
That’s all I could get as a photographer/grip. Holding the boom mic meant no shots while any filming was going on and none of me while filming an announcement with Pastor applejacks. *sigh*. Maybe next time RJ will get there sooner since he’s taller than I am.
SV Mod meet at the batcave…
Yessir, as one of my hobbies overlaps another, there is an inevitable set of pictures created.
Photography + Motorcycling = my most recent set of pictures.
Here are a couple pictures from that set. The whole set can be found HERE.
Brad's bike and car
DANG! Omari drove from NYC to make this meet!!
I finally put my new chain/sprocket on... by myself
Yeah, we drink oil 
Sometimes we actually do work lol
Fixing the neighbor's garbage lol
Super stock looking picture of an aftermarket sprocket and a stocker
Even changed a tire without anyone getting hurt lol
Go time
Heading five hours back to NYC!
Overall it was a productive meet. A lot of hot dogs and brauts were eaten. Maybe even some of the kids mac-n-cheese lol. Good times
This is half of what motorcycling is all about. If you own a bike and never work on it, I IMPLORE you to take your hand to a wrench. It’s rewarding like nothing else
Pulled the trigger on a new lens…
Transcript of the above video:
So in celebration of my 29th year of life on this wonderful third rock from that blazing ball of helium in the sky, I pulled the trigger on a new lens.
WHOOO DOGGY is she a PERTY lens!!!
/redneck accent
That’s right… via UPS right now there is a Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 AF-S/G/ED/N lens on the way to my hands!! Two pounds of professional goodness all waiting to unlock the range of photos that I usually capture via “foot zoom”.
CAN YOU TELL I’M EXCITED!!!!
My next two posts will feature a few blogs and photographers that I respect heavily
