Visualizing May...Week 3

I suck. This week I didn't have a lot of time to take cool, decent shots- or do cool things with water like I had planned. I still pulled seven shots from the week, but I can't guarantee when they were taken. I made up for it at the end of this though, I swear.

These pictures are pretty much a walk-through of my boring week.

May 15th (Missed)

New bar in peoria. Buddy Joel and wifey...

1/4 f/2.8 ISO200

May 16th

I found this as odd - so had to snap it...(his eyes followed me)

1/4 f/2.8 ISO200

May 17th (ish)

This one has a story. There is a relay for life group here in town that will drop off flamingos in a yard - for a price. It's a prank that includes a very well written explanation about the cause and also the opportunity to pay a small fee to have them moved to whatever yard you want them to goto. Our good friends sent them to us, and I was pretty surprised to come home to these.

2.5s f/2.8 IOS400

May 18th

A bird. Boring, I told you so.

1/4000 f/2.8 IOS100

May 19th (Missed)

Not too far from home are a couple lakes. This is the spillway for one of them.

1/250 f/8 IOS100

May 20th

Just above the spillway was a powerline with a bunch of fishing line on it.

1/640 f/9 IOS100 (why f/9? This is one of the only times I was in P mode)

May 21st

Walking on a nearby beach, we saw this little guy.

1/320 f/6.3 ISO100

OK, OK! I know these weren't the best. My apologies. To make it up, I have a video of something I've been playing with lately, and that also related to a picture this week. Someday once I've mastered basic photography concepts (i.e.-not now) I would love to dabble in the world of videography. I recently got a version of the Twixtor plugin to use in After Effects, which helps blend frames together when slowing them down by a large factor. This was my first attempt at it.

Movies make everything ok, right? Next week should be AWESOME. Reasons?

• My flash unit came in two days ago
• My 24-70 2.8L comes in on Tuesday
• Other accessories come in by the end of the week
• Friday we're shooting a graduation on the lake
• Saturday we're shooting a birthday party

Awesome.