While up in Michigan, my family spent the day up North at the Port Oneida Fair. It’s a celebration of rural culture and arts, or so the add says. The event is held every year in August and consists of a variety of activities from farm to farm, some of which you’ll see here in the photos. It was quite a day. Jason enjoyed the history lessons, especially the WWII stuff!

These were also taken with my canon 30D and an 18-55mm lens.

                    ~Here’s a few interesting photos~

          ~While we were up there, we also went to Pyramid Point and Sleeping Bear Dunes. The view was amazing.~

                                          ~My sweet Jason~

                                               ~My parents~

                                       ~Rita, my little sister~

Here are some brownies I made at home! I used an Alien Bee light, with an umbrella attachment. I tried using a reflector, but decided that I liked the heavier contrast. I also ate a few too many of them…

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Kelly, at Tony’s Fitness Center, was kind enough to help me with this assignment. I used an alien bee flash and I took a Lumedyne flash with me for some outside shots. For post processing, I took out the yellow from the ambient light in the room and tweeked the saturation levels, all in Lightroom. Here’s some of what I shot.

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This is a fast and easy way to make a quick video put to music. This is the first time I’ve used it, and am impressed. It’s extremely user friendly. Take a look…

Here are a few examples of what we do in the editorial class with Jerry Schmidt… This day we used a reflector and subtractive lighting, and some north window light…

For these shots we had a food stylist come in and set up some dishes for the class. We did some quick high key with 3 Alien Bee lights, a reflector, and a white backdrop. It was a fun shoot and it made everyone quite hungry. In the end, we ate our props…

Powell Gardens is a beautiful place to photograph. Our editorial class decided to take a little field trip there this past Thursday. It was a long day, but well worth it. I now have a plethora of beautiful flower pictures to hang around the house…

If you’ve never been to Powell Gardens and you are in the Kansas City area, make the trip out there. It’s a beautiful park, especially when you have a camera!

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For this assignment, I attended a going away ceremony for a Lt. Col. It was a lot of fun, and most everyone was very kind about being photographed.

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This was the first assignment for my editorial class. I chose to tag along with a team playing in a golf tournament. They were very kind to let me shadow them. It was a lot of fun and I think I got some nice photos. Here are a few… If you’d like to see more, visit my flickr account…

I just love this next picture of Jason walking into the trees with the sun at his back…

… and this is one of my favorite swing shots…

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