Category: Photos
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Long Daytime Exposures
There are many ways to add a creative element to your images, and one thing that you may wish to explore is adding time as an element in your photos. You may know about taking long exposures in dim light or at night to get low noise high quality images in dark situations, but…
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A Trip to the Hollow
I had a day off from work this week, and chose to get up before the break of dawn to head down to one of my favorite areas in Ohio, the Hocking Hills area, where there are plenty of gorges and waterfalls and other lovely natural sites. This time, I went to Conkle’s Hollow, which…
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Documenting Family
Like many photographers, a very large portion of my photographs go towards documenting family life. I take more photos of my family than of any other subject during the year. My daughter recently had a birthday, and during the party, I made a decision early on to sort of go for a ‘documentary-style’ look throughout.…
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Last Breath of Winter
Here in Ohio, we were greeted by one (hopefully) last cold spell. Things have thawed slightly, but at the end of March, it really shouldn’t be 18 degrees Fahrenheit. In any case, I stopped to take a few photos at dawn and capture the sunrise over the city as well as some last remnants of…
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Valentine’s Rose
Well, in the US, yesterday was Valentine’s Day. If you have a significant other, you likely have access to some nice flowers. So dig out your macro lenses (or any lens that can focus somewhat closely) and go to town. I tried several different compositions on the roses I bought for my wife, but this…
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The Freezing River
I went out this morning in the frigid air to get some nice sunrise photos on unisturbed recently fallen snow. The river is freezing over from the recent cold, and the portion that is still liquid on the surface produced beautiful cold mist rising off the water. I took some shots from down near the…
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It’s Winter…Go Shoot!
It’s that time of year again. If you live in a northern climate, the weather has turned cold (bitterly cold in the US this week), snow has fallen, ice is everywhere. It’s the perfect time to go out and shoot. Yes, that’s right, the perfect time to shoot. While outdoor photographers all love shooting in…
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My Favorite Photos of 2013
Another year has gone by, and I want to thank those of you who have come to my site for your support. Admiring Light has grown a fair bit over the past year, and I’ve made a fair bit of changes in my own photographic world. I transitioned from predominantly shooting Micro 4/3 to predominantly…
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