Asakusa Shrine

On one of our outings, we went to Asakusa Shrine here in Tokyo. I found myself having a hard time shooting because there were so many people and ultimately I couldn't get a good shot without people in the way. I sort of gave in and shot anyway.

I turned this shot into black and white and tried to darken the photograph a bit to lessen the prominence of the people. And as I have done a lot, I colorized the middle lantern.

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American Flag

I was on a dinner cruise on the San Francisco Bay and the weather couldn't have been more clear. A bit windy and cold, but I couldn't help but be outside. Everyone else seemed to spend more time inside, but I liked being outside to take in the views.

I was struck at how cool the waving flag was, whipping in the wind behind the boat. After taking the picture I felt like it would be a bit more interesting if I turned it into a black and white shot, darken the overall picture and then colorize the red and white parts of the flag. I think it turned out rather interesting.

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Indian Bricks

This is just a shot of a pile of bricks at a roadside stop in India between New Delhi and Agra. I had just arrived in India the night before with my business school class and we had a day of leisure before we started our company visits. Talk about overstimulation! We couldn't keep our eyes off of the road...and I guess it's ironic that of all the pictures I took on the road to the Taj Mahal, the one that interests me most isn't shots of camels walking on the road or snake charmers...but a plain old pile of bricks.

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Panic! in Seattle

This is the first shot I've taken this year that I thought I would throw up on the photo blog. It's quickly growing on me. At the time when I took it I didn't like it. But I'm in this colorizing phase where I'll take turn my color photos into black an white and then selectively add color to various sections of the photo...such as the red lettering above Pike's Market in Seattle.

The colored letters spell "panic" not for any other reason than I could do it easily with the available letters. That, and I really like the song Panic, by The Smiths. In case you're interested, Pete Yorn does a great cover of the song on his "Live at the Roxy" album. But I digress.

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Cabo Cactus

This picture was taken in Cabo San Lucas of a lone cactus on a small sandy bluff overlooking the beach and the Gulf of California. I shot this picture in the morning and, like most of my shots, didn't do anything for me. I started playing around with the colorization and though that even though the blue sky behind it was so clear and deep...if I made that black and white and intensified the green of the cactus I might come up with some funky. Well, it certainly is funky. I think that's why I like it.

This trip to Cabo in 2005 was an incentive trip because Shelley and her sales district was one of the top districts in the company. Shelley was pregnant with Anthon at it was one of the last big vacations before I started my MBA and we became parents.

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Rome, right before the rain

Photography is an emerging interest of mine and I'd like to share some of my favorite shots from over the years.

My first photo is one that I didn't really think much of until a few months ago. I was fooling around with Adobe Fireworks and I found that if I turned the original photo (shot in color) into a black and white shot, then I could colorize parts of the Italian flag and superimpose it on the black and white photo. I played around with the lighting and voila, I created a shot that I really thought was cool.

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