The zinnias are busting out all over in our flower garden. The electric fence has been sucessful in keeping the deer and other critters out of it including Michelle's dog, Allie, who got a little tast of last week. Both images were taken with a Canon 50D using a Sigma 10-20 mm wide angle lens set a 20mm. First image at f/22, 1/30 sec, ISO 800. Second image at f/11, 1/11 sec, ISO 800.
Each month in 2009 Becky and I have chosen to photograph a sunrise at the lake. Well the sun has moved so far north in the eastern horizion that we can't get a photograph without driving 50 miles to get to Sneads, FL (and that was last month's shooting location) so we chose a location close to the lake but not on the water. It is a field of rye. As the sun began to rise a thin layer of fog formed over the rye field. Only two vehicles passed by we were shooting the second vehicle was the land owner who stopped. Apparently the driver first vehicle had contacted him and told him a survey team was on his property. In the early morning light the cameras on tripods much have appeared to be survey equipment. The owner was pleased that we had chosen his field to photograph the sunrise and was relieved that we were not a survey team. I guess he thought the government might be trying to take some of his property. The above image is a High Dynamic Range image using three photographs combined. Taken with a Canon 50D, using a Canon 28-80 lens @ 28mm. f/22, 1/4, 1/15, 1 sec exposures, ISO 100 and the three images were combined using Photomatix.
Becky is working on publishing an online book in a month. Her theme is the Courthouses of Southwest Georgia. We began this project this morning with the Decatur County Courthouse in Bainbridge, Ga. While she was working on her images I took some photos across the street in Willis Park to bring home and merge into a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image. Above is one of those images. It is a combination of three photos merged together. This photo was taken about 30 minutes before sunrise and while the sky was a deep blue most of the light is coming from street lights in Willis Park. I did do some post processing in Photoshop to bring out some of the darker areas and shapen the image after running it through Phtomatix to get the HDR image.
William and Brandie came up the the lake for Mother's Day and I took them for a boat ride. Photo by Michelle Miller
For our 2009 monthly photo assignment Becky & I choose to do a sunrise on Lake Seminole. Above is my submission for April. It was taken from Sneads Landing because the sun has moved so far north that this is really the only place on the lake that can capture the sun rising over the main part of the lake. 
