Snapshots

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I was randomly requested to take flute photos for a floor-mate today!

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A shot of the October lunar eclipse sequence, underneath Northwestern University's Weber Arch.

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U.S. Marines pass overhead before Obama delivers his speech at Northwestern.

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Autumn at Northwestern.

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A sunrise over the Evanston lakefill.

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A collection of my favorite landscape photographs during my Yosemite trip. (Daytime)

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tell me your camera

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These were all taken with a Nikon D5100, which is a pretty basic DSLR you can get for $300-$400, depending on if you get it used or not. I think that the more important question, though, is what lenses  I was using, so I'll answer that too. I can't exactly afford a true wide-angle landscape lens yet (especially since I'm using a DX camera, which applies a 1.5x crop to all images, making landscape photography 1.5x harder), so for the top four pictures, I managed with stitching five frames taken by a Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens (again, super duper cheap) in a panorama function in Photoshop; and for the fifth picture, I believe that I just used a Nikon 35mm f/1.8G lens. Oh, and I used a circular polarizer for all five of them.

So, just letting you know, you don't necessarily need the most expensive camera equipment to take neat pictures (:

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More black and white pictures from the cellars of the Napa Valley wineries.

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Silhouettes near the Yosemite park entrance.

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A collection of some of my favorite photographs during my Yosemite trip (Nighttime). 

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A collection of waterfall (Nevada and Vernal Falls) photographs that I personally dislike; my sister says she likes them, though, so here you go...

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The lights of Tunnel View burn as if lit by a cigarette, stray embers consuming that papery veil between us and the starry void: those places we have not yet remembered, not yet traveled to.

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A collection of my favorite landscape photographs during my Yosemite trip. (Daytime)

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A view of Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View.

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Pale shadows from the waxing moon spill over onto the Yosemite domes, flooding night sky with its bleached light and colors. 

High Quality here.

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Since it was canceled, we mist the Chicago Air and Water Show; but at least the fog made for some pretty neat photographs anyhow.

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Strawberry Basil Cupcakes made by serenity5x5.

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Angles