Not gone...just busy

Hey everyone. I thought I would post on here since it has been awhile from the last one.

For those of you keeping up with my life on facebook or twitter, you know that I have a few new jobs along with the role of being a photographer. The jobs have kept me pretty busy, which is good! But it has caused me to not shoot as much. Some people think that I have given up on doing the photography thing, but I am just stepping back and preparing for my next swing at it. 

Living the life of a full time photographer is a really tough thing to do and I learned that from first hand experience. I don't really believe in giving up on yourself. I do think that its sometimes smart to step back and rethink things in a logical way, than to just jump head first and try to plug all the holes in the ship on the way.

Probably the greatest thing to come out lately, is the skatepark in Bluffton. It has most defiantly become my getaway. The kids and the guys hanging around there are really cool and on top of that, the park has a really nice flow to it. Its probably the one place, you will see me at, whenever I can get some time from work.

A few days ago, I decided to bring my camera with me and snap a few pictures of the locals. Unlike the last couple of times I've shot skateboarding, I decided to go with the natural light look, over using strobes.

In the next two images, I wanted to show the difference between using a wide angle and a zoomed lens. I wanted to achieve the same effect of getting all the same objects in, but show how each can have a totally different look.

This next image, I really like a lot. Sometimes as a photographer, you see things in life where you wish you had your camera to take a picture and this was one of those instances, that I was glad to have it with me. It reminds me a lot of Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" photo, minus the dust bowl. The only thing that I wish I could have done a little different was, catch this zoomed in. I got a zoomed in image of this, but the girl turned her face and ruined the moment. :-(