Topic: Vacation Photos (Page 1 of 1)

I just got back this weekend from a week-long vacation in Indiana. I brought my camera along, and took some photos, and thought I'd share some with you. Mind you, these were originally taken at 2272x1704, but I scaled them down...

This artifact was embedded in the floor at the concourse in O'Hare (Chicago) where I waited for my plane on my trip home. It looked rather interesting, so I snapped some shots of it.

Chester is a little cat I picked up in Indy while waiting for my luggage to catch up with me. Here we see him watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on a friend's large tv.

This is about the clearest picture I could get of Chicago on my way home. The flight attendants didn't seem to mind me using my electronic camera while the plane was taking off. I guess they thought it was a regular camera. Don't try this at home, kiddies.

These clouds looked like whipped cream to me. They're much prettier looking down from above than I'll bet they looked from below.

These are my girlffriend's cats. Molly, on the right, is big into staring at you and gnawing your fingers off. Brian is big into rubbing against you and flopping down on your feet. Getting a picture of them together without killing each other was a miracle.

I really like this photo, though it needs a little cropping at the bottom to remove the tip of the house in the background. Other than that, I think this is the sharpest, most focused photo I've ever taken.

More clouds. These clouds don't look as creamy, but when you're between them and the ground, they look a lot more dangerous. I really like how you can see their shadows. It adds weight to them.

We passed over this golf course on our way out of Indy. To the left, you can see the engine of the plane. I was seated right by the exit, which was very nice. I highly recommend trying to get seats by the exit from now on.

On July 4th, there were fire works at the IU stadium. I decided to try to take photos of them, even though I had not brought a tripod. I precariously blenched my camera between my knees while seated on a blanket on a hill, and set my shutter speed to 2.5 and 3.2 seconds. I got some good shots, but most did have a wiggle or two (it's hard to not tremble while you take them). This was the cleanest and least trembled shot I got.

Here is a still life that I set up while I was bored. The lighting just seemed very good for taking something mellow.

This is the neighborhood I was staying in. Who says that Indiana's flat? All the houses looked exactly the same, at least in three different styles. It was funny when I realized it, because then I noticed how in some cases, they tricked you by simply flipping the house horizontally.

And last but not least, I snapped a photo of this lake as we passed over it. I think it's somewhere here in Massachusetts. What does it look like to you? To me, it looks like a monkey in platemail jumping over a stumbling zombie.

I thought the airplane shots would be blurry because we were moving so fast, but fortunately we were so high up that the ground appeared to be moving very slowly, so a lot of my photos came out reasonably clear.



[This message has been edited by Human Shield (edited 07-08-2003).]

Nice photos. Although the second cloud link goes to the street sign (I kind of wanted to see those dangerous clouds).

I think the lake looks like a rampant puppy, actually. That was the first time I ever used those two words together. It will also most likely be the last.

You looked too quickly. I fixed that link like 10 seconds after posting and discovering that mistake myself. Thanks though!

That's the problem with the Asylum... there's always going to be somebody there to catch your mistakes before you can edit them. At least that's usually the way it is with me.

Nifty clouds. They have a nice weight to them.

If I tip my head t the left I see the rugrat girl (sorry, the name escapes me) falling on a cat. I have no idea what made me want to tip my head to the left.

I love clouds from any angle. Thanks for sharing.

Neat shots

I think the first one would look very cool converted to a high-contrast B/W (like Tri-X).

Chester watching TV is a beautifully set up shot.

Clouds are a touchy subject for me at the moment. All these tropical storms are giving me wall-to-wall cloud cover just about every day, and that's killing my chances to go out and take some shots with my new camera

Some great shots.
I can't wait until I finish paying everything off from this last trip so I can get a decent DC (actually any DC would do me fine right now). There are several shots I wanted to get on my way home yesterday, and since at least a few of them were within 100 miles of home, I'll take a Saturday or Sunday off after I get a camera and see if anything turns out like I want. In particular, the wind farm around McCamey and the "hill" outside Ft. Lancaster.