September 6 - 249/365

28-135mm lens @ 47mm, f/7.1, 1/2000, ISO 200

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September 3 - 246/365

28-135mm lens @ 28mm, f/5, 1/400, ISO 200

Views of Pennsylvania as we leave Philadelphia airport on our way to Bar Harbor, Maine for the Labor Day weekend.

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June 23 - 174/365

281-35mm lens @ 135mm, f/7.1, 1/60, ISO 800

Contrasting black image against a pretty sky painted by a summer evening sunset.

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May 30 - 150/365

28-135mm lens @ 30mm, f/3.5, 1/640sec, ISO 200

The bright red veins on the leaves of this tree caught my eye and I was doing my best to capture the contrasting colors of the red with the blue sky. Getting the color to pop was a bit more difficult than I had anticipated, but a little bit of digital editing afterwards helped a bit. I upped the saturation, adjusted the cyan/blue levels a bit, and added a color overlay layer. Still not quite what I had envisioned in my head, but I like that it is something a bit different than what I usually take. 

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May 26 - 146/365

Canon PowerShot SD600

Being that it was our first day back home after our trip to Germany, I was tired. I had gone to work a full day, making me a little bit cranky by the end of the day, and everything was pretty much still packed into suitcases, including my camera. So to grab a photo for the day, I grabbed the easiest thing to get my hands on - the point & shoot. There was a cool moon out that night that I was trying to capture, but the point & shoot won't capture a low light situation like the SLR will, so this was as good as it got. I went ahead and did some more digital editing to enhance the fuzzy, watercolor-like feeling of the image and ended up with this.

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April 9 - 99/365

18-55mm @ 34mm, f/4.5, 1/800, ISO 100

With spring in full force right now, I have been feeling inspired to take photos of flowers and pretty colors every day. But I figure this would get boring and probably be less creative. So instead of photographing flowers, I decided to showcase the beautiful spring weather we have been having by shooting the sky instead. It was a slightly windy day today, so the clouds were clipping along and changing shape every few minutes. I took quite a few sky photos, but ultimately liked the composition of this one the best. I also tried using my polarizing filter to enhance the blue background.

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March 31 - 90/365

18-55mm lens @ 18mm, f/14, 1/500, ISO 800

Today was beautiful outside. Beyond beautiful. The first gorgeous spring day after days and days of rain. And the trees are really starting to bloom, including these behind our house. The buds on these trees have a slight pink tinge to them, so I wanted to capture the blue sky, pinkish tree buds, and the beautiful day.

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March 4 - 63/365

28-135mm lens @ 28mm, f/8, 1/30, ISO 100

Since the sun was finally shining today, I went for a brief walk after work today around the golf course behind our house. There were some beautiful clouds that made for some pretty views, and enhancing the color saturation for this photo helped the pretty colors in the sky pop a little bit more. Looking forward to when there will be leaves on the trees in a few months!

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March 1 - 60/365

75-300mm lens @ 300mm, f/5.6, 1/80, ISO 100

So I actually had an entirely different photo I was planning on using for today's photo. I felt good and relaxed all day since I had taken the photo before I went to work this morning. Then, because of my super busy weekend, I had to run to the grocery store tonight, and on my way home, the most beautiful full moon was staring right at me through my car windshield. Dang it. How can you have such a beautiful moon and not attempt to capture it? So after unloading the groceries from my car, I set up my tripod and camera and trudged outside into the cold to "shoot the moon." Needless to say, I didn't go back and choose my original photo from this morning over the moon shot. :-)

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January 27 - 27/365

18-55mm lens @ 42mm, f/7.1, 1/100, ISO 200

I took this image after I got home from work. The original image was quite a bit larger since I was using my 28-55mm lens. I could have put my 300mm lens on, but figured I would be able to recompose the image with a little cropping. This was the end result, with minimal adjustments besides the cropping.

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January 15 - 15/365

I was having a bit of a difficult time finding some inspiration today. I tried photographing a few things and brought my camera around with me all day, but nothing was jumping out at me. So my last ditch effort was to try a night sky shot. I have been wanting to try this at some point anyways, so I figured I would give it a shot (no pun intended). I'm happy with how my first effort turned out, but learned some new things about shooting night skies that I will have to incorporate on my next attempt. I will definitely be trying this again to see if I can improve on it.

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January 5 - 5/365

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