Weekend trip and assignment session

Had to pull over for this one. Couldn't help it.

This past weekend I spent some time in Quad Cities. I was pretty excited to get out of town for a while and do some serious shooting. This week I had a 10 image assignment due, so it felt good to just go out and capture some images. I am starting to realize that this Architectural Landscape class is just a mush of landscapes and buildings, sky and sea, which is actually pretty cool. I was going into this class thinking that it was going to be very straight forward and have this particular style. I am starting to feel more comfortable with it. For example, this weekend escape I just shot anything and everything. Here are the ones I posted for my assignment, in my next post I am going to just post some randoms from that weekend that I really love.

Same here... Loved this building.

I love this image. I like the primary color pallet, and the shapes. I got a brilliant from Brian my professor.  Thanks Brian!

This one I actually liked better in b/w but for the sake of the images, I left it as is.

Um... it's a phallic object.

This was the section of the building next to the K's Merchandise sign.

This was the first image like this that I have ever taken that I love. This is not my style. But it works.

ENJOY!!!

 First week of Architectural Photography class....Not sure how I feel about it yet.. Still a new style for me.. We will see how this goes...

Opening reception for Wisconsin Photography 2012

Engagement pictures I did for a dear friend.

 These are pictures I did for my dearest friend and her fiance for their engagement. I am not very good at this kind of thing (this kind of thing being portraits), but I had fun. Not to mention this was my first time doing engagement pictures!!! NERVE RACKING!!

It was nice to do this for them and everyone was really happy with the outcome. The location these were shot at is one of my favorites to go to. You might notice this is the same location for the band pictures i posted earlier! It is near a small river, there is good foliage, and some old buildings so it gives me lots of options. I like options because I like to try as many things as possible. The sun was come and go that afternoon/evening which came as a slight pain in the butt. The best part about this shoot was that I found a wildlife trail thing on the way to the location, and so I took them there for a few shots, and was really diggin it. But those didn't make the cut for this post, but I will remember that spot for some other shoots I have coming up!! Well I hope everyone enjoys, and comments are always very welcome!!

I had to add this one because of that face!!

One of these days I will pull out my external hard drive and post pics that I did the past few years... One of these days.....