Sharon noted that we didn't have too many recent photos of either grandmother around, so I thought I would bring my camera along to update our family photo collections.
Grandma Glatfelter:
And Gmom Pierce:
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Showing posts with label philly. Show all posts
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Family Photos
We hopped a Zipcar down to Philadelphia last weekend to see Sharon's grandmothers and parents. It is a real blessing to live near your extended family -- something our family missed out on by virtue of our parents setting out for this Land of Opportunity (so no complaints here) -- and it's a blessing we hope to enjoy for a long time to come.
Sharon noted that we didn't have too many recent photos of either grandmother around, so I thought I would bring my camera along to update our family photo collections.
Sharon noted that we didn't have too many recent photos of either grandmother around, so I thought I would bring my camera along to update our family photo collections.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
2013 Project 52, Week 3 - Thoughts on Style
Week 3: January 15-21
This was my last weekend with the wide angle Sigma lens before I had to return it to the good folks at BorrowLenses; we spent one of our last days together in the eminently walkable downtown/City Hall/Chinatown area of Philadelphia.
I've been thinking a bit about what constitutes my style of photography, or less formally, "what I like to shoot". Experimenting with the wide angle lens has certainly piqued an interest in landscape/architecture photos, which is a vast improvement over the previously-felt mild dread and frustration when attempting such photos with a 35mm on a crop body (equivalent to 52mm). But ultimately I find that having people somewhere in the frame provides some human context to the scene that attracts me more than if it were missing.
So maybe it shouldn't surprise that this shot ended up being one of my favorite from the day and the one I chose to use in this Project 52 post, even amongst the captures of City Hall and the Chinatown gate that I also liked (down below after a jump rather than creating a separate post).
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| 16mm (DX) : ISO 400 : f/8 : 1/50s "All You Need" at the Love Statue |
I've been thinking a bit about what constitutes my style of photography, or less formally, "what I like to shoot". Experimenting with the wide angle lens has certainly piqued an interest in landscape/architecture photos, which is a vast improvement over the previously-felt mild dread and frustration when attempting such photos with a 35mm on a crop body (equivalent to 52mm). But ultimately I find that having people somewhere in the frame provides some human context to the scene that attracts me more than if it were missing.
So maybe it shouldn't surprise that this shot ended up being one of my favorite from the day and the one I chose to use in this Project 52 post, even amongst the captures of City Hall and the Chinatown gate that I also liked (down below after a jump rather than creating a separate post).
(Jump!)
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