The World Through My Eyes

Today was my first time in downtown Detroit, My wife and I were going to take a trip a while back but never did happen. So today I was in Cobo Hall for a conference. While going down to D-Town I snapped a few shots from my phone. Here are a couple.

This is a picture that I took while at my work. Its a potted plant that is on its last legs. I had to take the picture of the leaf because of the design in it. Its said that God's in the details.

A Satellite photo of the inauguration. This is just amazing to see all those people.

Sometimes the shadows can be fun! Just reminds me that God is always in the details of life.

Just though that I would show a small part of camera collection. All these cameras are film cameras.

This is a camera that I purchased a while back on ebay for 35 dollars, it included 20 flash bulbs and the flash attachment. This camera is pretty cool. I takes great pictures, as you can see below. Sadly it can get expensive to both develop and digitize the negatives. But I have to say it is fun shooting with film. Makes you think twice before shooting and making sure your shot is set up correctly. Enjoy the photos below, they are of the State Capitol here in Lansing.

Here are some picture from a blackberry from my trip down to Ohio. We made the trip down and back the same day which made for a long day of driving.

Sometimes I have to think that Michigan can be the most photogenic state in the Union. Take a look at these amazing photos from around Michigan.

There are somethings that companies should just never attempt. This is one such attempt, the Mexican December Issue of Playboy put on over their models as the Virgin Mary. The cover was released with model Maria Florencia Onori posing as the virgin. Its headline reads in Spanish: "We adore you, Mary." Now some times it makes me wonder why or who thought this would be a good idea. Needless to say the Catholics are up in arms about this.
Playboy Enterprises Inc., based in Chicago, released a statement Friday explaining that the company did not approve the cover because the Mexican version of the magazine is published by a licensee, according to Reuters. "While Playboy Mexico never meant for the cover or images to offend anyone, we recognize that it has created offense, and we as well as Playboy Mexico offer our sincerest apologies," the company said. [Source]
I'm not sure what to think, the photos were well done, but when does "artistic" value infringe on tradition. I guess it will be interesting to see where this goes. Below is another photo from the magazine, this one doesn't show anything, but it may be NSFW, so be careful.

So I came across Nikon's new advertising campaign for their new Coolpix S60. From what I have seen this is a really cool point and shoot camera. This camera has facial recognition, up to twelve faces; which is pretty cool. Look below at the photo that Nikon is using to show you it's ability to recognize faces. All I can say is advertising is fun!

So I got a couple of new cameras about two weeks ago and I finally got a chance to have the pictures developed, yes I know, I said developed. These "new" cameras are actually some pretty old camera one is a Kodak Vigilant Junior that was in WW2 and the other is a Kodak Duaflex 2. I would have to say the Vigilant is my favorite because of the looks and feel of it, though the pictures I took with it were not as good as the Duaflex. But it was a great experience taking pictures with film. This day in age we have gotten use to digital, with it's instant gratification of seeing the photo right after it is taken. With film you have to think about your shot and really have to think of composition. Below are a few of the photos that I took with these cameras.
The photo above was taken with the Duaflex 2 and the shot came out pretty nice.
This shot was taken with the Vigilant, and as you can see there is a little blurring on the out side edges. It was a fun experence to shoot with these old cameras and only solidified my wanting to shoot more with these. The only downside would be the fact that they take film, and film needs to be developed, and with that it takes money. Plus the fact that I don't have a way to digitize the negatives so I have to rely on the prints. But with all that to the side it was still a lot of fun to shoot with these. You wouldn't believe the looks that you get when you are using an old folder syle camea. So in this day and age of digital everything, its nice to; every once and a while, to just step back in time and use these cameras.

At last weeks game, the Jacksonville Jaguar Cheerleaders dressed up as the Ghostbusters. I have to say I prefer these Ghostbusters to the original ones.

This was my attempt at making a ttv photo, though it is fake, i had to use photoshop to layer a picture that I took with a picture of a viewfinder. This is the end product. if you want to learn more about TTV you can go over to Russ Morris' website where he give tutorials on how to take the pictures like this.

So we had a photo competition at work about 2-3 weeks ago, and I have to say that one of my photos was chosen as a judges choice award. Now granted I didn't win first place, but it was great to take home this nice trophy for judges choice award. Above you can see myself and Mr. Keedy; who also won a judges choice award; displaying our trophies. Also below you can see the the photo that won it for me.

So we took our baby girl out today to Crossroads Village for some trick or treating. I was a lot of fun, except our baby girl slept through the hole thing, but it was still great to see her in her costume. The one thing is we never did get a picture of her in her outfit, so I have to dress her up again so I can get a picture of her. I did get some pictures from the day and a small video. The pictures below are not the highest quality because they are not the raw photos, they were jpg's that were created beside the raw. So I am hoping to get some time to work on the raw photos in the next couple of days. So we will see how they turn out. Enjoy the video and photos.