I like this photo because it pretty much captures my cats personalities in one pic.  It would have been a bit better if Forge was better in focus with Havok, but I decided to post it anyway.

Forge is stupid and crazy.  Which is pretty much exactly what he looks like there laying on the table.  Havok, on the other hand, is smart, cool and collected.

Not a perfect photo, but my first with my new 55mm-200mm lens.  I can get better pictures of the cats by zooming in from afar because they tend to change their behavior if I’m in their face with a camera.  Go figure.

Before talking about the picture, I just want to say that the cat toy pictured here is absolutely, without a doubt, the best cat toy ever invented.  It’s the only toy they seem to never get tired of.

It’s back to cats for this one, but that’s because they’re such interesting subjects and I can photograph them no matter the time of day.  I wanted to play with my 35mm prime in low light and Havok was engaged in a game so I thought it would be a good test of capturing motion.

He wasn’t just standing still when I snapped this photo, but I managed to “freeze” him in place with a wide aperture, flash, and high shutter speed.  The ball was moving faster than Havok, so it blurs a little but it makes for a neat effect in this case.

Because sometimes the primary purpose of a camera is just to have some fun.

This is a picture I took of the Gila Valley LDS Temple on a recent trip to Arizona.  It’s my first display of architectural photography and I immediately see some of the challenges.

For one, the wide angle I used on the lens makes it so that the lines aren’t going upward in a perfectly straight line.  That makes sense considering our eyes see much the same thing, but internally I think we have a tendency to “straighten” out the lines when we look at it.

It was a good time for a photo with the sun literally right behind the steeple.  It gives it that otherwordly glow that a temple should have.

The jpg compression really did a number on this one.  It looks much better in its RAW format.