I was in Maryland last week, visiting a friend. We had a lot of fun, and I took about 300 pictures. Here are eight patriotic pictures I took in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

*For 'inside of a canon', I stuck my lens in the canon mouth, turned up the f-stop, and switched it to manual focus because auto didn't want to work.

 American Flag

 United

 Bronze Eagle

 Silence and Respect

 Gravestones

 Unknown

 Canon

 Inside of a canon

Friday while I was testing the new equipment, I went walking around for an hour.  There really wasn't anything to take pictures of, I snapped a few things that I thought might be interesting, but even with this amazing camera they didn't have any oomph behind them so I disregarded them.  I kinda liked these two shots of the light filtered through the leaves, but I wasn't sure they were any good.  So I threw them back into photoshop and turned them to black & white.  Maybe... but then I thought about the one and only photoshop technique I've ever done other than levels, curves and a mask or two and went digging for the instructions.  This, I like:

Ortonized Trees

Thanks for looking.  Comments and critiques always welcome!

There's really not much to the grounds of an office building.  But they always have flowers outside, so I made that my subject of choice for my "testing" friday afternoon.  Without extension tubes or a macro lens, I think I did a fairly decent job composing these shots.

1    2    3    4

Shot with the Canon 5D Mark II specs can be found below:

1                                        2
ISO 100                              ISO 100
1/400" @ f/5.6                    1/400" @ f/8

3                                       4
ISO 100                              ISO 100
1/400" @ f/5.6                    1/160" @ f/8.0

I finally got the batteries charged and my other more important duties finished so I went outside and walked around the grounds of my workplace and tried out our departments new Canon 5D Mark IIs.  That's right, we got two of 'em.  And Oh... My... God.  Just beautiful.  Here are a few samples:

  bees                outside at work               Smile 

I'll edit some more Monday from my trip (and maybe go walking around some more).  This is truly the best job EVER!

Thanks for looking, image specs can be found below:

Canon                                 Bees
ISO 2000                             ISO 100
1/8" @ f/6.3                        1/640" @ f/5.0

Work                                  Smile
ISO 100                              ISO 1000
1/400" @ f/8.0                    1/20" @ f/4.5

Ring-billed Gull      

Dee shoots Rock shooting the Big-Gun 

I decided to upgrade my Canon XTi to a Canon 40D … So I took the 40D out to the Las Vegas Strip last Wednesday night …

Las Vegas Blvd and Flamingo Road … The World Famous Las Vegas Strip!! 

The Paris Balloon ... The Paris Balloon in front of the Paris Hotel 

The Paris ... The Paris Fountain in front of Paris Hotel!!  

Our Eiffel Tower ... The Vegas Eiffel Tower in front of the Paris Hotel 

The Fountain at Bellagio ... The Fountain at Bellagio!! 

More of the Bellagio Fountain ... The Fountain at Bellagio!! 

Caesar’s Palace … Ceasars Palace on the Strip!! 

The 'Jubilee Show' at Ballys ... No 'Ands', 'Ifs' or 'Butts' the Best "Old Vegas" show on the strip!! 

Thank you for looking!! ...

Your comments and critique are always welcome!!

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