Some Of My Favorites

The band I was in at the time was touring the eastern half of the United States. This night's stop happened to be in Nashville, Tennessee. When we finished playing and got back to the hotel we were staying at, I went out looking for things to take pictures of. I saw this eerie scene in front of the hotel's restaurant and bar. Taken on July 3rd, 2015, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

I was only about 7 inches away from these bees. Since they were swarming, I knew they wouldn't sting. It's a good thing, because I was only wearing shorts and no protective gear. The story on this shot: A windstorm blew part of my neighbor's tree down, necessitating having to cut it down completely so it wouldn't fall on his house. Once it was cut down, it split open and there turned out to be a bee hive inside it. Until the bees swarmed up to move to a new home, I got this shot of them.

This was one of the first shots I took when I was trying out my new Sony Alpha a230 DSLR when I first got it, back around July 2010.

This was one of the first pictures I took with my Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D DSLR, back in 2005.

A field near my hometown that was just bursting with yellow flowers. Probably a weed, though. Taken on April 29th, 2011.

This is the same pepper I posted before, but this is the original version taken on film. The other one was just the digital version I took to find out what settings to use. Also, I altered the color of the other one so it would look different than the film version when I finished the roll and posted it. The above is the pepper's true color. Shot on black velvet. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm F/1.2 Film: Kodak Gold 100 speed 35mm film Shooting program: Manual Aperture: F/16 Exposure length: "B" approx. 5 secs. Date: October 19th, 2012, 11.40 p.m. Location: Dining Room Table, Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Fall 2012 13j