Zachs pics

Hi everyone,

My kid brother is in 11th grade now. Its hard to believe but our mom didnt want the lame school pictures that the school photography company offers so I took some shots for her to send out to the Family. They turned out real nice. I have only had the chance to process one of them so far there will most likely be more to come.

Davidson Family portraits

Hey there,

I recently shot some family portraits of the Davidsons. I can't say it was an easy task. Lol but here are some of my favorites that came out real nice. 

Two Posts In One Day!! I know, I know calm down. Lol Just Kidding I don't even think any one reads these. I'm pretty sure most people just look at the pictures. Either way, these are from yesterday. We have had some very interesting weather in Maryland over the past few weeks. It's been almost every kind of weather you can think of, all rolled into one month. It was really warm and humid yesterday, which is weird for November. Oh yeah, its november , I just had a birthday so thats cool. There were some great clouds out yesterday, very much like the kind you would see in Florida. I took my bike up to Baltimore to keep Danielle company because she had to babysit her three younger bothers. So we went out and took a walk around her neighborhood. She lives in Federal Hill in Baltimore. There are always fun things to shoot in Baltimore. It was fun watching her try n control three very hyper 9 year olds. We ran into one of their little friends, Rachel, you will see a pic of her. It was nice to get out  though. I've been cooped up for a while coming off the end of the wedding busy season.  Oh, by the way, it rained really hard on my way home too, so that wasn't really fun. Ok here ya go. enjoy!

-Justin

Dads Birthday

Hi again,

I meant to post these a few weeks ago, I just hadn't gotten around to processing the images until recently.  Your going to think that all I do in my free time is go to Great Falls, but that's not true. Lol My family and I, minus my sister who lives in Texas now, took a trip to Great Falls to enjoy the weather for my dads 53rd birthday.  Don't tell my dad he's 53 though. We took the more difficult trail, which is the most scenic, like it was nothing. It was a good time with the exception of my mom getting her foot caught in a rock and biting the dust. She lived though. Lol anyhow here are a few pics from the day. I'm posting the group shot a couple of times; one in a sepia tone, which is my favorite, and one in color, because of the colors in the leaves.

-Justin

Hello Everybody! I'm back to write the second edition of my blog. 

One good thing about living in Maryland is that we get to enjoy the 4 seasons. We usually get snow during the winter, sweltering heat in the summer, lots of rain in the spring, and (my favorite!) beautiful colors in the fall. I live very close to the Virginia/Maryland border where there is a state park off of the Potomac river called Great Falls. This place is awesome if you are ever looking for a good hike. Filled with dangerous cliffs and zig zagging foot trails.  The water never gets too wild in the river but you do see the occasional kayaker. Occasional? Actually a lot of them there all the time. lol Any how the park is beautiful but especially beautiful in the fall.  There are all kinds of reds, oranges, and yellows in the trees. So Ian and I have been wanting to head up there and take some pictures to capture the Autumn season for a while so we thought what better time than 5 am! lol. We wanted to take advantage of the soft light you get during a sunrise. This is actually the second time we have made plans to shoot some thing at that ungodly hour in the morning and actually went through with it. Dragging my self out of bed at that time in the morning when I don't have to for work is  definitely a challenge. This place, Great Falls, is always packed. Its a very popular place to spend a day on the weekend if your a local. So pulling into the parking lot, (if you can call it that, its more like a dirt plot with some rocks and some port a' potty's lol) and being the only ones there this time was a bit odd. So with the sun coming up fast we ran down the trail to find a place that Ian had in mind to catch the sunrise. Did i mention that this trail wasn't the safest thing to be running down with thousands of dollars of camera equipment on your back! lol It really was nice; the air was very crisp and it wasn't too chilly outside once we got moving. Perfect weather- really something you need sometimes to get away from the every day. It was especially peaceful being the only people there. So we got going. The sun is always hard to catch just right because once it starts coming up, it does so very quickly! lol. 

I got some great stuff . It was funny because right as we were finishing up, about 6 other photographers showed up, doing the same thing we were doing I'm assuming. I wanted to shout down to them "awwww too late we already shot that!" lol but I'm a nice guy and I didn't. So any way, here are some early samples from our shoot. We shot all our images in HDR and it really does something special for a land scape.  This is my first time experimenting with it and I've got to admit that it is addicting. 

Until next time,

-Justin