Picture time

Went yesterday driving and looking for places to take pictures. The driving part was hilarious, raced an old guy in a truck. I wasn't expecting him to jump off the line, so I wasn't ready for a quick launch myself. I noticed he floored it when the light turned green, so I did the same. 1st gear, around 4k RPM turbo kicked in and I started to pull away. Had a perfect shift to 2nd and was gone. It was fun, and the first time in a long time I've actually had somebody try and race me. Thank you, old guy in a blue truck.

On the the pictures. I got some good ones, in my opinion, but they were unexpected. Let me explain...I remember taking the pictures, not because I thought they would turn out good; just to take the picture. Not looking at the picture as a final product, but rather the act of taking the picture as my goal. I expected, as has happened so many times, that I would take a bunch of pictures, then load them on the computer, and never do anything else with them.

Last night, while sitting in the living room surrounded by 5 speakers and 1 sub, I turned on some music and played a slideshow of the pictures I took (raw, unedited, straight from the camera). This blew my mind, and gave me some ideas...expect something great to come from this in the future (I'll link back to this post when it happens). Ok, ok, on to the pictures...

Wait, ADD kicking in once again. One more thing I wanted to mention. I never really appreciated my wide angle lens (16-85mm f3.5-5.6) until now. I've always found it difficult to get interesting wide angle shots. I feel like, usually, they just turn out to be 'bland' pictures anyone can take with any camera. I'd say this is probably the most difficult area of photography for me right now. It's shots like this bridge picture that help me appreciate wide angle shots, and give me inspiration to try and improve.