Just a couple Diggs from the Pine View Hurricane B-ball game :D

Much of my time in the mission field was spent waiting around for the metro to come by so we could contact people on it.

This is a photo I took while on my mission in Montreal Canada. How the young man managed to stand there for as long as I had my shutter open, I'll never know, but he did, and it made for a great shot. I have a lot of special memories from my mission, and this captures the magic of nights in the areas I served.

Shutterspeed and Aperture Study

This photo, taken on Canon Rebel XTi with Canon 75-300mm f/3.5-5.6 stock telephoto lens is an illustration of the effects of both aperture and shutterspeed. It is the tip of an umbrella (if you couldn't tell :P) and the streaking lines behind it are raindrops. It is taken at a relatively slow shutterspeed to achieve the blue, with a wide aperture and long zoom to achieve the shallow depth of field. The dark lighting of the rainy day allowed me to shoot with those settings so it wasn't overexposed.

Abstract Aperture Study

I really liked the way the shadow cast from the ring created a heart shape in the crease of the book's binding. This photo was shot with my Rebel XTi with Sigma 18-50 f/2.8

N-o-o-b-i-e :D

I'm new to the whole photojournalism thing. I'm very excited to learn about it though. I've always thought that it would be cool to be one of those crazy intense photographers that goes out, night or day, rain, sleet, snow, or shine to cover the events that none of the rest of us have even heard about yet. I mean, often they're there before the EMT's, paramedics, firemen, police, or whoever else is supposed to be on the scene of whatever it was that just happened.
As you can see, I have a bit of a glorified image of the photographer that I have not yet become. Somehow, I haven't reached that level of audacity yet. My pictures are very light-filled, warm and fuzzy - not to say there's anything wrong with that - but I am very excited to learn to tell stories of other kinds as well.