Wedding In The Park

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Wedding In The Park. A photographer directs the bridal party for a shot during their celebration in Stone Mountian Park, outside of Atlanta, GA. Shot with a Nikon D90 and a Tokina 16-50mm f2.8 AT-X DX Pro Lens.

California Grasslands

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Grasslands within the Los Padres National Forest near Las Olivas, California. This was just one of those moments. I was driving towards Las Olivas and the road was largely empty. I passed through miles of open spaces without giving it much thought. Something about this cluster of trees caught my eye. I turned around and spent over a half an hour shooting this scene from different perspectives. It's one of my all-time favorites. Shot just after dawn with a Nikon D90 and a Tokina 16-50mm f2.8 DX AT-X Pro lens.

Sunflower on our kitchen table

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A single sunflower bloom is illuminated by the afternoon sun streaming in through our kitchen window. Shot with a Nikon D90 and a Nikon 80-200mm f2.8D ED lens. I used the pop-up flash on the D90 to provide some "fill". The flower bloom would have appeared as a silhouette without the fill flash.

Brooding Man

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Brooding Man. This is Ron Mueck's "Untitled (Big Man)", a sculpture in the Strange Bodies Collection of the Hirshorn Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Shot with a Nikon D90 and a Nikon 18-55mm f3.5G lens.