Back up and start again.

" Oh house of Jacob, come and let us walk
in the light of the Lord. " Isaiah 2:5

Ok so it seems my little experiment hasn't worked out so well despite my family and friends attempts at keeping me accountable. In an effort to satisfy my legions of followers, (all 5 of them) I am going to pick this blog back up with a little different structure.

I am still going to use Bristol as my primary subject, and I will still use this as a learning tool for myself, but because I have some missions work and traveling to do I will include some of those experiences as well.

Let's start with this.....

This cracked me up! At a rest area on I-40 in Oklahoma. Seems segregation is alive and well in some parts of the country. I was on my way to Gallup, New Mexico on a mission trip ( more on that later ) when we ran across some interesting things. Including The Country and Western Museum in Oklahoma City.

The challenge here is trying to shoot in very low light where no flash is allowed, and no tripods are allowed. I had to use what was available to steady the camera. A wall, person, etc. Some were succesful, not so much the others. If you find yourself in the Oklahoma City area you owe it to yourself to stop and visit this museum. The grounds around the museum were as interesting as the inside.

I was practicing with apertures in the gardens around the museum. Notice in the first picture it is in focus from front to back. In the second I used a larger aperture and focused a third of the way into the frame putting the foreground and the background out of focus for a different effect. The third photo I opened the aperture all the way to throw the entire background out of focus, creating an effect called 'bokeh'.

That's it for this time fans. More on the Mission Trip later.........