Spooky Cyclops Pumpkin - 2007

One of my favorite parts of Halloween was letting the kids design their own jack-o-lanterns. I would often get crazy looking faces with features that are too small for the pumpkin's size, or detail that was well beyond my ability as a pumpkin artist. We would try to find a compromise on the design that they wanted and one that I could actually carve. I would do the slicing and let the kids do the major brain surgery. Gutting the pumpkin and separating the seeds. This was one of Joey's ideas from a few years ago, and probably my favorite. We sketched it out on the pumpkin and I broke out my handy dandy dremmel tool to do the carving. It sat around for a few days and I had a few days off due to rain, so I though I'd take a picture. I needed a dark room so I set it on a stool in my bathroom. (no windows) I experimented with a few shots to get the exposure and ended up with a great shot of a jack-o-lantern. I applied the radial blur through photoshop just to give it a little extra spookiness.

Sunset at Disneyworld

Honest to God, these were the actual colors of this sunset. I did not touch this photo up at all.

In February of 2006 Melissa and I went to disneyworld and then to Daytona for a race. I had just gotten my Rebel Xt a few days before and I couldn't wait to try it out. The results of the camera upgrade showed themselves right away. We were at the hotel that night and were heading out to Downtown Disney for dinner. While we waited for the shuttle I couldn't help but notice the incredible colors of the sunset, and me having a thing for sunsets needed to get a shot. I took a few but it was too dark and the images were blurry. So I went used a railing to support the camera and got this shot off. The speed was slower than 1/8th of a second, but it came out just fine. I can't wait to get back there. The sunsets are beautiful, and the mouse is fun too.