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Jul

2011

Elephant at the St. Louis Zoo

An Oliphaunt

This is another photo from my trip to the St. Louis Zoo, and what visit to the zoo would be complete without seeing the elephants?

I couldn’t get a sense of how big this guy was, there weren’t any reference subjects around him for scale. The ole Nikon 80-200mm worked really well for this range and the apparent size of the subject.

It is quickly becoming my favorite lens.

Some other people seemed to like my camera as well. I had one person offer me to trade cameras, and a random zoo employee said to me “I like your camera, sir.”

I felt like a celebrity…

…a little bit.

Tags: elephant, oliphaunt, zoo
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Jul

2011

Rainbow over the Ballpark

Baseball

Baseball is a great game. I love watching baseball, playing (softball), listening to the game on the radio, being at the ballpark. It’s a storied game with a proud history.

I went to the Cardinals Reds game on the Fourth of July. It had been raining on and off most of the morning, it never really rained at the park, but this beautiful rainbow formed. I didn’t have my tripod, but I snapped this handheld HDR shot that still turned out well.

This photo is dedicated to the second All-Star game victory by the national league in as many years.

Tags: baseball, busch stadium, cardinals, rainbow, St. Louis
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Jun

2011

The Cathedral of Saint Louis

St. Louis

I have a lot of good memories in this town. There is a part of me that still gets giddy like a little kid when I drive down I-64 through the City.

If you’ve taken 64 into St. Louis, you may have noticed a large green dome to the West-Northwest.

It is the Cathedral of Saint Louis. It is very big and very beautiful with an absurd number of mosaics. I went there a few weekends back.

After mass a number of people stuck around to take pictures with mostly hand held point-and-shoot cameras. At most a small flash will basically do nothing to improve your photos in a large, relatively dim space. You really need a tripod.

The Cathedral of Saint Louis, as seen from I-64

I actually had one guy come up to me and ask if I was a photographer working at the church, kinda like those photographers at Disneyland I guess. I told him “no” but I took a picture of him with his camera. I’m a nice guy like that.

Tags: Cathedral, church, St. Louis
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