Had a great time on a Saturday morning playing with cars and taking pictures with Ian. He’s pretty into his little table and bench set so it was pretty easy to get some nice shots.

For a while I’ve been following a Swedish photographer who refers to himself as Niopixlar. There is something very analog about a lot of his photos. They really have a soft film-like feel to them, and he uses a lot of earthy greens, browns, oranges and yellows to give a really vivid feeling of the texure [...]

The other evening I spent an hour in nearby Highland Park with my nieces for a casual photo shoot. These girls are some of my favorite subjects to shoot because they are just so cute and photogenic. Conditions turned out to be pretty nice as the sun, which had been behind the clouds all day, [...]

This T2i camera really keeps me busy. While it takes great shots, it also has really impressive fully manual 1080p video. So while taking shots on vacation, I was also madly taking lots and lots of video. While I love this feature on the T2i, the only thing I sometimes find troubling for my own [...]

The mountains always seem to hit my reset button- I’m able to let go of so much of what consumes me during normal life. Come mid-summer, I’m always bouncing off the walls ready to travel and experience new places, scenes, food, hikes, people, etc. This summer marked the first extended trip with Ian, and he was [...]

Last weekend I was at a get together with some friends which was held on this great rooftop of an apartment building in the middle of Oakland. The view from the top is pretty spectacular as you can see pretty much the entire east end of Pittsburgh. I really feel like I could sit there [...]

Stumbled upon this today and was really blown away by what this guy did with a T2i. From the description and comments, it looks like he shot at 60 frames per second on a lot of this which explains the smooth slow motions. The color on this is also fantastic. I’ve been to Hawaii, and [...]

So I think I have officially fallen in love with time lapses. I ordered a remote timer for my T2i on ebay the other day and am awaiting in anxiously so I can put a few of these together myself. Here is one of my favorites of kayakers in Pittsburgh breaking a Guinness world record.

With my cousins in town, we all decided to head up to Mt Washington to see the sunset. It was a beautiful evening- crystal clear and great colors. I snapped some shots, and overall was pretty happy with the results. I only used my 50mm f/1.8 lens and the colors turned out nicely. So far, [...]

After doing a significant amount of research, I finally landed on the Canon EOS 550d (or rebel t2i). I actually went from a Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera to this one. I absolutely loved the GF1. Small, lightweight and took seriously sharp and bright shots. The pancake lens on this thing was great. But after a [...]