This is why I go on Photowalks

It hasn't always been easy to get motivated to go on photowalks once a week this year. But it's photos like these that make it worth it:







I haven't finished editing all of that photowalk yet (my 43rd of the year - less than 10 left! Crazy!), so gimme a few days for the slideshow. I just couldn't resist posting these few a bit early.

I love that you can't tell from the photos that there was some big family reunion or something going on all around me. Looks quiet and peaceful, doesn't it? ...it wasn't :)

New Layout + Lots of photos

First of you, you may have noticed that I switched up the layout around here. I just wanted one that stretched so that I could post photos from flickr without them getting cut off. It makes my life a lot easier.

Second. The weekend before last I got a chance to go visit E and her family while the 'rents were there, too. We all went to the pumpkin patch. My favorite photo is shown below but here is the slideshow (I've been having issues with flickr's slideshow lately. Hopefully it works for you.)



Btw, it's really hard to get you guys to all look at the camera at the same time - so the ones where you're sitting on the hayride? Those are actually more than one photo edited together - and you're STILL not all looking! This is why I don't want to become a professional photographer :)

Anyway, after the pumpkin patch we went back to E's house and the kids dressed up in their wonderful Halloween costumes. My favorite photo is below, but here's that slideshow.



This past weekend, I went on a photowalk to a local metropark. My favorite photo is below, but for a ton of fall photos, check out the entire slideshow



And finally, for the record, I order prints of my photos quite a bit. It's really cheap to add more prints to an order, since it's the shipping that's the most expensive. If you want prints of ANY of my photos, please let me know. I don't upload the full size versions to flickr, so you're not going to get the highest quality unless you ask me anyway, and so you might as well just let me do it for you so you can save money!

Keep in mind, too, that the photos you're seeing in the slideshow probably aren't the best quality photos either - first of all, flickr does some compressing when you upload them, so they're often not as crisp and clear as the actual photos that I have, and more importantly, when you view the slideshow, flickr makes the images full screen (or, at least relatively full screen). I don't upload full size pics, though, so the higher your resolution, the worse the photo will look because flickr is stretching it out.

Salt Fork State Park

Finally! We've been home for almost two weeks and I finally finished editing and posting my photos. No sneak peeks today - you have to actually go to the slideshow to see the photos. FYI, there's a few photos that I edited slightly different, so if you think you've seen one of the photos twice and therefore think it's back at the beginning, you're wrong - the slideshow actually stops at the end, it doesn't start over, so keep watching until it stops! Anyway, here they are!

Another Photowalk Catch-Up

oh dear. Someone really needs to remind me when I forget to write in here!

Remember when I posted about the opportunity I had to write for Digital Photography School? Well, I got to write a second article, too. Both articles led to a lot of traffic on iffles.com, the photography site I created and run. Not only has the exposure been great, but I've also been asked to become a regular writer for DPS, which means a small second income and more exposure. I'm excited - albeit a bit nervous! - to do it.

The last photowalk I left off with was the one of the new Akron football stadium. Keeping with the sports theme, I picked PNC Park as my next Photowalk. My favorite photo (seen below) was actually taken on the walk to the park. To see all the photos from that day, view this slideshow.



Next up was a walk downtown. I picked a random place to park and walked around an old building that looked to be a victim of a fire and down to an old Goodyear building. My favorite photo (below) was of the lock on the gate outside the Goodyear building. The entire slideshow can be seen here.



It's hard to pick a favorite from the next photowalk, where I went to Cuyahoga Valley National Park to Brandywine Falls. Ted and I used to go here a lot, so it was weird to go back alone, and I also hurt my back during this walk (I have no idea how, but by the time I got home I could barely move). One of the photos from the falls can be seen below, and the whole slideshow can be seen here.



I was sick for my next photowalk, so in an effort to preserve energy, I just walked down to the shopping center on the other side of the train tracks, and walked around back to get some more urban shots. Funny, my favorite shot (taken in the parking lot), people seem to think is from a beach! You can see that photo below, and the entire slideshow here



The next two photowalks were taken on vacation when John and I went to Salt Fork State Park - where we had an amazing time, by the way. I'm going to wait to post those until ALL the Salt Fork photos are edited and you'll get one really long slideshow :)