This is a photo taken when my friend Andrew and I went to William O’brien State Park. I kind of wandered a little closer to the river and a small ledge of rocks and looked up and found that this was a fitting pose for Andrew. I did very much like the angle, with the tree and the roots in the foreground I think the photo turned out very well. Andrew is clearly far more photogenic than I am, no matter, this is my photography site, not “My Photograph” site.
And please, let’s keep the ratings based on photographic quality and not something like “Hot or Not”…
Thanks! 
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“The Artist”, as titled by my friend that both took and processed the photo, Steve (http://www.srmartinez.net).
Steve and I were able to spend a little while together at Quarry Park in St. Cloud, MN and I feel that we both took some great photos that day, some of which I have already posted. This particular photo is a very rare photo I would say, though I may love taking photographs, I am not exactly fond of having my photo taken, so typically they end up being candid shots, as this one shows.
I will state that, in my defense, I do usually notice the faint clicking sound of the mechanics of the typical SLR firing away, and order the photo of me to be deleted, however, for some reason or another, Steve’s Nikon SLR and lens are the quietest combo I have ever heard, or not. Not sure if it is just a fluke that his is so quiet, as I have used them in stores, and a friend (Andrew) also has a Nikon and I have not heard one so magnificently silent as the one Steve owns. Regardless, I am confident that the next SLR I purchase will be the Nikon D90, as it has every feature I could dream of, and still uses a relatively small form factor, so when I have a spare $1,200 to spend on a camera, and a fairly good reason to do so, oh yes, it will be mine….
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There are two sides to this photo I suppose.
There is the positive side that is the fact that it is my first client, and this could potentially open many doors of opportunity for my business. I am confident that the client will be extremely happy with the photos, including the poster size photo they are interested in.
On the other hand, the other side is the truck itself. It is a terrible thing that one would have to devote their truck to a cause that in some cases, should never have happened. Some wars, not saying which ones I feel specifically, should never have happened, and the lives lost were unabashedly lost for what would seem to be no reason at all, I suppose one example is The Civil War.
Regardless of your standpoint on any particular war, I hope that you would feel that the loss of life in most wars could have been prevented. Though I am mostly anti-social, I have discovered recently, that above most things, I value life as one of the most important things ever, not only human life, but the life of all things, it is a precious, and fragile thing that should be valued by all. Not to say that taking a life is not sometimes necessary, it should always be a last resort…
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As some of the Facebook users may have noticed, I added a new Facebook integration feature, in which, when a logged in Facebook user visits the site, and makes a post, their Facebook icon is used as their avatar, with the nifty little Facebook “f” to denote they came from Facebook (I hope that I never use any word that many times in another post again). I think this will be beneficial to many users, as it does not require the input of your basic information, which may deter some people from making posts.
I do hope that the features I have been adding lately are noticed and being used/liked by visitors. As always, if you have any suggestions as far as features are concerned, please let me know. I would also like to start adding contributors to the Plog, so if you are interested in posting some content you may have, Photos, Music, Videos, etc. to the site, please let me know and I will add you as a contributor. I hope that everyone had a good weekend, and I hope that this week has good things in store for all….
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I was lucky enough to spend some time with a good friend of mine Andrew. We went on a quick meander down to the William O’Brien State Park and grab a few photos. Unfortunately there was not much of significance with regards to photography, I have only about three photos of note from the day, but I was very struck by this one.
I think that people tend to miss the significance of erosion on the earth, especially in and near river areas. It would be nice to have seen what this area may have looked like hundreds of years ago, and perhaps, due to modern technologies, hundreds of years from now they can look at all of our documentation with photographs and things of the like and see just what the landscape was like in our time.
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In light of the death of my childhood hero, and I am sure the same for many others, I will not be posting one of my own photos today.
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This was taken on a Saturday late at night in Downtown Minneapolis, not exactly the most comfortable of situations for me with my camera and equipment. I hurriedly set up my camera and snapped some photos from different locations and different angles of this large, old structure.
I really enjoyed the way the “spire” was lit up by the multiple light sources. Though there is some terrible ugliness to this photo, I recently did my quarterly free MacBook upgrade on craigslist in which I sell my current unit at a high price and buy a newer unit at the same price. I got a really good deal on this one since I was able to upgrade from the mid 2008 model to the new aluminum unibody model with the backlit keyboard…
Anyhow, due to my recent upgrade, I do not have the necessary photo editing tools currently installed, as well as the fact that I left my hard drive with all my photos in a place that I currently am not. Fortunately, everything will be resolved tomorrow afternoon, so there will a resurrection of regular posts with some better photos to go along.
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Not exactly certain the story behind this particular rock, or why someone took the time to label it “BENZY 14″ in capitalized bold lettering, but it is indeed a nice texture.
I found this one wandering with my friend Steve up at the St. Cloud Quarry Park. We both meandered down to the area and captured some quick shots. It seems that Steve can be a little secretive about his photos, as I am yet to see many from this day, perhaps they are just too good for the general public…
Thanks again Steve, hopefully I can make it up there soon, it sounds like the Pritt’s may have a project for me this summer….
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I am going to be adding a new page every month, and keeping an archive of the three favorite photos of the month. As well as a yearly archive of the top 10 of the year.
My primary motivation behind doing this is that I want people to have motivation for voting on my photos, the more photos you vote on the more your voice will be heard in the types of photos I take and display. If I find that people really like photos of dogs, then more dogs it is, if people like photos of nature, then there will be more nature photos, and so on and so forth. I have somewhat of a terrible memory, so if you tell me the types of photos you like to see, I will likely forget and continue on as usual.
So please, vote on the photos, make comments, I really want this to be a fun, living website where people can come and talk about photography, and whatever else they may enjoy, there was a comment in one post about brains coming out of my neck, I was laughing so hard it hurt (Seriously, it really did hurt). There will be a post this evening, so check back if you are interested.
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My daily updates have become not so daily as of late, and for that I apologize. It seems I have a lot on my plate to think about currently and I am trying to focus on that at the moment. Updates will resume, as the always do, in due time.
This automobile was in interesting one, for some reason I am thinking 1966 Chevy Impala, though the year may be wrong.
I found this one at a party I had gone to and thought a few photos were necessary, especially the way one tire was parked in the neighbors driveway, almost like, “Yeah, I break rules, what are you gonna do about it?” Must have been trying retain some portion of a rebel past, because in the back seat you could clearly see two car seats… Not the most typical grocery getter, but I would be alright with it too….
Thank you.
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