Zoo Day

Some students from an agricultural class hosted Zoo Day, and for one of my video stories for class, I videoed it. Joy Harsh from the Abilene Zoo came and discussed what she did and showed some of the animals she works with.

Style Your Sole

Tom's Shoes came to Abilene today and hosted Style Your Sole. Basically what it was, was that you could buy a pair of shoes, for like $40, and they'd match it to buy shoes for a kid in another country, or something like that. But what I was enjoying was that you could decorate this pair of shoes anyway you wanted, and here are my photos from that.

Feeding the Ducks

I was at Nelson Park and was shooting photos of the ducks.

A Few Things

I was assigned Service Saturday this week and here are a few photos I took. Also, I added a photo from the Art Show I went to last week. Hoping there's some improvement here in my people shots.

Silly Kitty

I bought this new shelf yesterday that was ridiculously easy to put together. I needed one because my cat likes to knock everything off of my counters, so I wanted a shelf that would be more difficult for him to reach. Well it works, but it doesn't work. I found out that he can jump to the shelf just under the top and I'm hoping he doesn't try to jump higher. He was enjoying himself and playing with some toys on the shelf below him. Here's some photos from that. All I did was adjust the levels a little bit and desaturate the background.

I was having fun with my macro lens the other day and here's a photo that came out of it that I just absolutely love. Here is the photo, and the process I used to get to the final product.

I took the photo with my 50mm f/2.8 lens and this is what I got.


I then did some sharpening and some levels adjustment in Photoshop, and then put it into PictureProject and changed it into Sepia.

After doing some posting on DPS (Digital Photography School), I got some good critique on what I should fix, such as lightening a bit around the eye. So I did a bit of dodging around the left side of the head and the bottom left near the eye, and here is my final result.


EXIF:
Nikon D50
Exposure: 1/80 sec
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 50mm
Flash Used: No

Dallas

This weekend I went to the Dallas World Aquarium and the Dallas Arboretum. Here are my shots from them. You can pause the slide shows or click on the image for a larger one.

Fort Worth

Here are some photos from the Fort Worth Zoo. I know I'm going after a lot of zoo's right now, but I'm trying for different animal shots and it's easier when you go to more than one place.