Showing posts with label Spark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spark. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Colors

Autumn Afternoon

Here is another image from our brief weekend foray up to the Blue Ridge Parkway. I wanted to catch the colors at their "peak", however we seemed to be there a week or two early. That doesn't mean there were no colors. Far from it. There were patches of colors everywhere. The trees just had not gotten to the point where you see an ocean of color stretching across the mountain vistas. This image was one of my attempts to isolate some of the color that was present and place it against the blue sky for some contrast.

Getting out the Vote!

This blog has been nominated in the Best Visual or Photography Blog on the Spartanburg Spark's annual Sparkle City Blogger Awards. I would appreciate it if any of you visitors could spend a moment to vote for this blog. Here is a link to the Spartanburg Spark page. The ballot is on the left margin and the Visual/Photography category is down near the bottom. While you are there I recommend that you visit some of the other blogs as well. There are quite a few local bloggers worthy of RSS feeds. Thanks for the support!

Keep shooting.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Spartanburg Bloggers

Spark Bloggers

Last night I went to a meet-and-greet for local area bloggers. It was organized by Steve Shanafelt at Spartanburg Spark, a local news/community site that has just started up. He has also started up a compilation blog of Spartanburg area bloggers called Sparkle City Blogs.

Only four of us showed up, but this was the first one so hopefully there will be more bloggers at future meet-ups. Checkout the post over at Sparkle City Blogs for the low-down on the evening. I had a good time and met some nice bloggers. I hope to see them and maybe work with them again in some way.

Of course I took some photographs while I was there. Portraits are not my strongest suit and we were in a very "atmospheric" coffee shop; i.e. it was dark. Still I think the photographs came out alright. Flash, high ISO and a touch of noise reduction seemed to do the trick. I'll get better at it as I photograph more events like this. More photographs after the jump.


Steve

Myles

Lydia

Kenny, Interlude's Owner/Manager

Interlude Lamp

Alright, so there's a lamp in the set too. You know how I like architectural details.


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