Been a while

So its been a while, a month to be exact. Ive been busy with portraits, cleaning, holidays, etc. :)

Ive also trying to get ready for some up coming events. I have a wedding at Emory and Henry with the reception at the Martha Washington Inn, in September. Ive purchased some new equipment for this and for some other events and I've been having fun practicing with my new camera and lens.

Eventually Ill get around to posting some of those pictures but for now here are a few pictures.



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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

I discovered this place about 5 or 6 years ago when I was walking along the Rideau Canal one day after a college class. I really liked the play of light between the shadows and highlights on the steps, but at the time I only had a point and shoot slr-like digital camera. So last June I really wanted to go back with my good camera.

Just around the corner is the Canadian Parliament buildings.



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Then just down the path a bit, there is a series of locks. I wish I thought to bring my tripod with me so I could do a long exposure of the water. So I had to rest the camera on a ledge.



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Nature Scenery

Nature Scenery

We were walking back from my wives grandparents and I seen this red grass, I think its a sort of grass. :) So I had to photograph it. :)



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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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Salem Red Sox vs Myrtle Beach Pelicans - June 5, 2010

Salem Red Sox vs Myrtle Beach Pelicans - June 5, 2010

Here are a few pictures that I took at the game. Our seat wasn't the best, we thought we were getting some pretty good seats right next to the dugout on the first row, but the dugout was higher than we expected and I had to take pics between the bars. :)

Misty outside the stadium



Misty at our seats

































This was between innings, there were two people dressed up in sumo outfits, but while the one guy was waiting for the 2nd person, the mascot decided to have some fun. :)













































We stopped by the bluefield walmart on our way home and noticed this shopping card, only a few yard's from the shopping cart return area. I wonder what the person was thinking when they decided not to put the cart in the return area. Probably something like "oh man, that's so far away, I cant possibly walk that far to return it, so Ill just leave it here".



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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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276.415.0025

Free Wallpaper - Scenic landscape

The other day it was raining pretty hard and I saw this is the view from our porch, so I had to take some pictures. :) Enjoy.



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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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Child Portrait - Part 1

Last weekend I had a portrait session with this angelic girl. This is one of many pictures that was taken.



We got back from Charlotte NC this morning at 3am, talk about being tired. :) We went to see Mark Schultz and Point of Grace in concert. I figured 4gb's of memory would be more than enough. At the end I had to be careful to leave some space for pictures with the artists after the concert. :) Hopefully I can post some of those pictures in a couple of days.

And the studio is up and running. I am working on a Christmas tree set, and hopefully will get that ready to go pretty soon. :)
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August 2, 2009 - Boston Red Sox at Baltimore Orioles

Earlier this month, my wife and I went to a Baltimore Orioles game. My wife is a huge Boston Red Sox fan and this was her first MLB game. :)

I was not to sure how safe it would be to carry my dslr camera with me in Baltimore, so I left it at home, and brought a canon small point and shoot camera. But I wish I brought my good camera. :) Some people think you need a great camera to take great pictures, but that is not the truth. Its the person behind the camera. However a camera with manual options does make it easier. The small canon I brought with me does not allow you to choose your exposure settings, and in the shooting modes, there is nothing for sports or action. So half the time the camera chose a small aperature instead of a fast shutter speed, causing motion blur. Plus it only had 3x optical zoom. So I know next time to bring my good camera with me. :)

Here are a few pictures from this game.












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The red sox won the game, 18-10. There was a lot of hits to photograph, which was lucky. :) I was trying to get the ball as close to the batter as I could, preferably as its being hit or just after, which is not to easy considering how fast its being thrown.

One of my favorite things to photograph is action shots. The challenge of capturing something in motion, at the right moment.
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Sugar Hollow Park - Bristol, VA

My wife and myself went to Bristol last weekend, and for part of the day we were at Sugar Hollow Park. While we were walking around the paths, we noticed some turtles, and on the turtle we could see up close, was hair. I did not know turtles had hair. I'm guessing its some sort of fungus or moss or something growing on them, since its on the shell as well. This was just weird. :)




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Providing Photographic services to Southwest Virginia and
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Humming Bird

I am back from Canada. I was away for almost 7 days exactly. :) We left at 2:45am Monday morning, and we got back the following Monday at 3:10am or so. We had a pretty good time, but I am glad the driving part is over. Is a 14 hour drive, but somehow we always manage to waste 2 or 3 more hours getting gas, rest stops, and traffic/weather. There were no detours this time, so that was pretty nice.

One day we went to Ottawa, but we didnt do any sight seeing this time.

We also went to Brockville and I got some sail boat pics that I think will look good once I play around in photoshop a bit, perhaps even corel painter.

One day we went to Merricksville, and boy that town has changed a bit, well the tourists rather. Even the art work in the stores has changed a bit. Theres a new local artist thats getting attention around Canada, not sure about the States. Its pretty good, reminds me of Tim Burtons Corps Bride and nightmare before Christmas. Its not really my style of art, but shes got a lot of tallent. There was work from an artist from China, I believe his name was Zhu Zhu, and he has a very interesting technique using corel painter, I will have to get his books sometime. :)

And we went to Picton for a day. This is my first hummingbird shot ive attempted. I switched lenses to a better one, but the hummingbird woudlnt let me get another picture, go figure. :)


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Providing Photographic services to Southwest Virginia and
East Tennessee, and surrounding area.
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Goat Standing on a Cow

We were coming home from Kingsport TN yesterday and we seen this sight. We had to turn around so I could take some pictures. : )



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Gerald Fagan Photography - www.GeraldFaganPhotography.com
276.791.3711
Providing Photographic services to Southwest Virginia and
East Tennessee, and surrounding area.
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