Spring Break with the Son

Collin is out for the week and here's some pictures from the adventures we had last weekend in Davenport Beach. He's 17 and almost as tall as me, man I'm getting old, one of my new check-in's last weekend at the squadron was just a year older then him.

Here's some pictures and a video I took, enjoy.

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A photo shoot with Fall of a Tyrant

A while back (months and months), one of my buddies told me to come and check out his band, being an average person of this internet age. I went to the bands website and was appalled by what I found. The pictures sucked (really, they did) and that they sucked so bad that I offered my photography services for free of charge to fix the problem, perhaps even shoot a video for them (my ulterior motives were to add on to my portfolio, perhaps other bands who had crappy websites would come forward to ask for pictures after seeing what I did for these guys). So last while I was off in Key West last month, I get a text message from Jason (lead singer of Fall of a Tyrant) asking if I could come out when I came back and take some pictures. Being the middle of the night, I texted him back to remind me when I was awake. So with the bride in tow, we went out to Club Retro in Fresno, an all ages non-profit music venue. We arrived and got permission from the powers to take pictures and below is a sample of what I came up with and a link to my Flickr Set. The band did a great show and I hope my pictures and video reflect that.

Pictures were shot with the Canon 7d, video with the trusty Iraqi Canon S3. I would have done the video with the 7d but the DSLR works better under scripted settings and I need a computer with more punch to edit the high def video.

Duval Street in Key West

Taking some low light images while walking around last night, while California is cold and rainy, most of the people down here are in shorts and flipflops.  I'm looking forward to seeing the Bride when I pull back into town but am going to miss the warm weather and good fishing of the Keys.

Some pictures in Key West with the 7d

Key West take 3

Much better trip then Iraq take 3, I'm down here wth VFA-122 conducting some air to air training and perhaps getting some fishing done.  I've spent much of the weekend tuned into CNN with a close watch on Japan, my sister and her family are in Atsugi, they're fine but shaken up, no pun intended. 

This happening to Japan, I have a feeling the online video sites are going to be flooded with some fairly intense footage of the event and many cameras are going to be found in the wreckage with that, "Oh $#!*!!!" moment in the months to come.  I'm glad my family is alright but my thoughts go out to the families of the missing.

Yosemite with the Canon 7d

Things that I found out, 430 pictures taken in large RAW and JPEG and a minute HD video with fill a 16 gig card.

Perhaps I need to being a laptop with me so I can see how the full sized image looks and to get the light settings right. I'm still working on my light, some of my pictures are coming out a bit over exposed, only one way to make that right, practice. Here are some shots I took yesterday.