An abstract light painting for your desktop background.


This desktop wallpaper is available in sizes:

1024x768 | 1280x800 | 1280x960 | 1280x1024 | 1600x1200 | 1920x1200

This wallpaper is free for your personal use. I just ask that you do not use it as a basis for creating additional graphics. If you wish to link to this image, please do so by linking to my wallpaper page, and not to the jpg files directly. Thank you very much.

To use one of these images on your computer desktop, just click the appropriate size for your computer monitor. Then once the image loads you can right-click (Windows) or opt-click (Mac) and click on "Set as Desktop Background."

A closeup image of a wet leaf.


This desktop wallpaper is available in sizes:

1024x768 | 1280x800 | 1280x960 | 1280x1024 | 1600x1200 | 1920x1200

This wallpaper is free for your personal use. I just ask that you do not use it as a basis for creating additional graphics. If you wish to link to this image, please do so by linking to my wallpaper page, and not to the jpg files directly. Thank you very much.

To use one of these images on your computer desktop, just click the appropriate size for your computer monitor. Then once the image loads you can right-click (Windows) or opt-click (Mac) and click on "Set as Desktop Background."

An abstract light painting for your desktop background.


This desktop wallpaper is available in sizes:

1024x768 | 1280x800 | 1280x960 | 1280x1024 | 1600x1200 | 1920x1200

This wallpaper is free for your personal use. I just ask that you do not use it as a basis for creating additional graphics. If you wish to link to this image, please do so by linking to my wallpaper page, and not to the jpg files directly. Thank you very much.

To use one of these images on your computer desktop, just click the appropriate size for your computer monitor. Then once the image loads you can right-click (Windows) or opt-click (Mac) and click on "Set as Desktop Background."

One of my goals for this year was to increase the amount of marketing I do for my photography. One of the ideas I had many years ago was to create some desktop wallpaper images that I can give out to people. When I was working I would try to rotate my desktop wallpaper on a monthly basis. People that stopped by my desk liked the different images and asked if they could have the wallpaper as well. So I started creating them for people to use.

I haven't done that in a while and I figured that giving back to the community by creating wallpapers would also help me with my goal of marketing my photography. So here are two recent desktop wallpapers that I created that you can download for your computer. Click on the image to be taken to a page that gives you different sizes for your computer.


They are free for your personal use. I just ask that you do not use them as a basis for creating additional graphics. If you wish to link to the images, please do so by linking to my wallpaper page, and not to the files directly. Thank you very much.

This was shot on a recent hike in some woods near my home. I liked how the mist was hanging in the trees after a recent rain.


This desktop wallpaper is available in sizes:

1024x768 | 1280x800 | 1280x960 | 1280x1024 | 1600x1200 | 1920x1200


They are free for your personal use. I just ask that you do not use them as a basis for creating additional graphics. If you wish to link to the images, please do so by linking to my wallpaper page, and not to the files directly. Thank you very much.

To use one of these images on your computer desktop, just click the approriate size for your computer monitor. Then once the image loads you can right-click (Windows) or opt-click (Mac) and click on "Set as Desktop Background."

Here is a desktop wallpaper in black and white. This was shot while I was driving down a deserted road winding through farm fields.


This desktop wallpaper is available in sizes:

1024x768 | 1280x800 | 1280x960 | 1280x1024 | 1600x1200 | 1920x1200


They are free for your personal use. I just ask that you do not use them as a basis for creating additional graphics. If you wish to link to the images, please do so by linking to my wallpaper page, and not to the files directly. Thank you very much.

To use one of these images on your computer desktop, just click the approriate size for your computer monitor. Then once the image loads you can right-click (Windows) or opt-click (Mac) and click on "Set as Desktop Background."

On Presidents day I headed up to Gettysburg to spend a couple of hours on my Civil War Infrared project. I also planned to stay for some sunset photos over the battlefield. While heading up to the Gettysburg area I noticed some great cloud structures in the sky which works very well to show contrast in Infrared photos. I also decided prior to going up that I wanted to concentrate on black and white infrared (rather than my normal orange toned IR photos.) I can process them either way, but I went up trying to pre-visualize my results in black and white.

When I arrived at the battlefield (near the Pennsylvania monument) I was happy to see that the cloud patterns were excellent and I was very happy with the results.



I also brought my color camera and grabbed some color photos as well.


I was not as happy with the sunset photos because I forgot my split ND filter at home so I had to play with these in Lightroom to get the foreground details to show up. That just means I need try again.

The weather is starting to warm up and spring is just around the corner. It seems like the Photowalk vibe is starting to pick up again.

Shawn Duffy has just announced a night time photowalk of the Potomac near the Lincoln memorial. His photowalk will be held on March 7th and will start at 7PM. I'm planning to attend and I'm looking forward to getting some good night time shots along the Potomac. You can get additional details and a map of the route at Shawn's website.

Andy Smith has also announced a photowalk of the Harrisburg PA downtown area on April 18th at 10AM. I was recently told by a friend that the Capital building in Harrisburg was modeled after the Paris Opera house and it would be a great place to take photos. I'm looking forward to my first visit of this city and photowalking is a great way to get to know a place. You can get more details about this walk on Andy's website.

I recently started working on plans for the next photowalk I want to host. I'mplanning to host a photowalk of downtown Frederick MD. I have the route mapped out and I just need to determine the date for the walk. My plan is for a weekend in March. Once I have the date set I will post the information here and at all the various regular announcment sites.

Speaking of photowalk announcment sites, here are some resources to help you find a photowalk near you:

Flickr.com city based groups.
Photowalking.org
Photowalklist.com

If you have no idea what Photowalking is about, head on over to this Wikipedia entry on Photowalking.

On Monday of this week I did a photoshoot of a radio announcer that is building a website to promote his freelance voice talents for radio and TV. In preparation for this shoot I re-watched the Strobist DVD set so I can refresh my lighting techniques. If you don't have the DVD set, I highly recommend it if you want to learn about using small battery powered flashes for professional results.

I'm starting to build my own portfolio so I can earn some extra income doing headshots and family photoshoots. At my old office I frequently shot many of the financial advisers that visited our offices for marketing and promotion photos. For this photoshoot JJ was looking for headshots, eviornmental portraits, and some studio detail shots that can be used on his website. He had some ideas of what he wanted, but he gave me free reign to be experimental as well.

Here is a selection of some of the photos that I liked from the photoshoot.

On Monday of this week I did a photoshoot for a local radio announcer that is building a website to promote his voice talents for radio and tv spots. I have been trying to build up a portfolio of people photos to help me gain some freelance photo work myself. I will post some of the highlight photos later in another post.

While processing the photos my first run through the batch is to mark my rejects (i.e. out of focus, bad composition, blinkies, etc.) In Lightroom I just quickly hit the X key as I cycle through the shoot to mark my rejects. Usually I hide my rejects from my views so I can quickly pair down the photos I need to review to output for proofs. While I was marking the rejects I mistakenly marked another photo with an X when I wanted to mark it as a P (a pick.) So I turned my filter view back to show all and this photo was near it. For some reason I took a closer look at it and decided to spend about 2 minutes playing with it.