Featured Image: Santa Cruz Beach California
This will always be a favorite image of mine. The little girl was photographed (okay she's my little girl) on the East Coast and the panoramic in the west Coast.
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Omaha Riverfront Pictures
The Missouri river is nearing or at record heights and threatening to flood towns along the river in Nebraska and Iowa. If your from the area you are well aware of whats happening. Sections of I-29 in Iowa are already closed. Today I took a trip down to the riverfront and took a few pictures at the Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge. The city is busy preparing for the College Word Series this week, and it looks like the flooding it will have minimal impact on the games. Our thoughts are with those who are being affected by the rising flood waters. Here's a link to Douglas County Emergency Management for more information or where you can volunteer.
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The view from the Omaha side of the Missouri River, Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge
Omaha Skyline from the Iowa side of the rising Missouri River
Omaha from a flooded parking garage across the river.
Portrait of Eric
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Airport Portrait Panorama
Over the summer I spent several weeks documenting a family in Chicago. We had only a few hours one day to get this shot of seven planes and the eight family pilots and their spouses. We came up with the idea on the day of the shoot so no pre-production. Three of the planes had to be flown in from other airports around chicago to our shoot location at the Dupage Airport. Once the airplanes where arranged and a private jet was moved out of the background we were ready to go, but we only had a few minutes to get the shot. It was a beautiful day, but as you can see by the shadows, not ideal lighting conditions. I tried to wait for a cloud -- but none would not cooperate. The panorama was shot in four pieces. My solution was to set up one flash head directly over the camera and rotate it (my assistant) on the axis of the camera lens. This gave me just enough light to open up the shadows. We were all extremely happy with the results, especially considering in was an impromptu shoot. The final image was put together from five exposures in Photoshop. It's hard to show how much detail is in this photo. Click on the photos below to see it bigger and broken into three parts.
Airplanes pictured from left to right: Beechcraft Bonanza, Piper Super Cub, de Havilland Turbo-Beaver, Pitts Special, Cessna 421 Golden Eagle, de Havilland Beaver, Cessna 172
For the tech geeks out there. The flash was a Speedotron 206VF head w/11" reflector connected to a Speedo 4803CX powerpack at full power (4800WS). For everyone else-- about equivalent to 10 or more on camera flash units firing at once ( flash guide number of 1000 with this reflector).
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