Band on the Run, runs

Before I hunker down to study for finals, I thought I would share the finished product of the KU Band story. It runs in KU Endowment Association's magazine. Enjoy.

Happy Thanksgiving

I know, I don't shoot a lot right now, so I apologize that I don't have a lot of new work to show, but that's just my life right now. However, I had a few moments this morning and was checking my hard drives. Of course, I fired up RTE on the web and listened to trad music from Ireland. And I started looking at images from my last trip to Ireland. I posted a few of my favorites.

Gotta Dance

I had a little assignment this week, photographing the University Dancer Company's Fall Recital rehearsal. I have been doing this for several years. It is a lot of fun and the dancers and dance is great. One woman really had "ups." Enjoy.

Point and shoot

I don't have much time to shoot right now. Classes, impending finals, work and my mother's illness, but I do mess around with the G9 some. I really love it's macro capability. It's a fun little tool. Not a moment camera, but a scene camera. I shot these just messing around in an exotic location--the 700 block of Missouri Street.

12 mp point-and-shoot

When I began shooting with digital cameras in 1999, we were using these terrible 1.7 MP cameras that produced horrible files. The cameras cost in excess of $12K. I purchased an EOS-1Ds (11mp) in 2003 for considerably less than $12K, but it still wasn't cheap. I've been looking for a point-and-shoot for at least a couple of years. The major drawback for me was the lack of RAW capability. Well, if you are looking for a high-quality point and shoot, look no further. I just got my Canon G9 on Friday. And while I haven't really put it throught its paces, I am amazed that I could buy a solid point-and-shoot that will give me 12MP of RAW capability--for under $500. No, it won't replace my DSLR--it's not super fast and above 400 ISO it's quite noisy. But what I do have now is a wonderful little pocket camera that produces very nice files at low iso (80, 100, 200). And it's just perfect for travel and photographing scenes that you come across during your daily life. What's even better is its macro capabilities and image stabilization. It will focus down to 1cm. I have posted several macro images I shot just messing around.

Feeling Irish today

I haven't been t0 Ireland in three years. I really want to go back. I was thinking about my last trip in October 2004 and decided to post a few images from County Kerry. When I look at these, I can almost smell burning peat.