Who the Heck am I

Welcome to my blog, I ran out of storage space on my last blog so instead of purchasing more space I decided to start another.

Photographing is one of my biggest passions in life. I've been a photographer for 20+ years. Although I have sold some of my work I consider myself an advance amateur. Which means I'm pretty good at pretending to know what I am doing. I arrived from Massachusetts to Northern Kentucky September 16, 2001. I hated it, for months I complained about living here, besides all the redneck jokes I would get there was nothing about Northern Kentucky I enjoyed, when I got over myself I dusted off my camera and headed for the hills, literally, I never fully understood what a beautiful place this is until I was given my first digital camera as a Christmas gift. In all honesty you couldn't get me to move out of this state.

Living so near to Cincinnati (I live right across the river) no other city can offer me more. Art museums, Cincinnati Zoo, symphony, theatre, aquarium, amusement park, Dozens of parks, one of the largest and most amazing firework display in the country and so much more. If you are from the area you know what I am talking about, if you're not, believe me when I say In and Around Northern Kentucky is worth the visit.

I know you will want to check out my other blog, I have shot photographs at the Behringer-Crawford Museum, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati Zoo, Creation Museum, Eden Park, Findlay Market, Fountain, Square, Krohn Conservatory, Rabbit Hash, KY, Railway Museum, Smale Park, Spring Grove Cemetery and much more. Just click on the link below.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

A Day at the Races

Let me see what did we do today? Silly me! River Downs of course. My club was meeting at River Downs yesterday but I had so much on my plate that I or I should say we headed to the races today instead. I wanted to work on my panning photography.


 The above photo was my first photo, I needed to check my settings, this guy was so funny, he ran by me during his work out with his horse and said "cheese." He must have thought himself quite photogenic as he came back several times to pose for me.
 Warming up time
 The above photo was my first attempt at panning, When I checked my LCD screen it looked so clear, I decided to forget panning and just photograph, ummmm boy did I make a mistake, I had no idea that the panning had turned out. Will be going back soon to try again.

This one happened by mistake. Wish I had just stuck it out and just continued panning.




 I love it when you photograph a horse when all four hoofs are off the ground.
 I've now learned where to stand and where not to stand. Unfortunately I didn't figure this out until I came home and started to post process my photos. Live and Learn









We spent almost 3 hours at the track so we were really hungry when we left, we stopped off at Habanero's in Clifton. Our favorite little Latin American Restaurant. Love the homemade chips.

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