Happy Holidays Print Giveaway!

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For the next 3 weeks people that are members and sign up and become fans on my Facebook Fanpage will have the opportunity to win a 16″ x 24″ print from me!

I’ll be picking a winner every Friday from December 18th-January 1st from my fanpage list and contacting them to let them know they’ve won.

The winners will have these choices for prints:

“A Lonely Heart Beats”

“Love at 75 Miles Per Hour.”

“One Morning In Brooklyn.”

“Ground’s Eye View.”

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Image of The Moment Monday: Love at 75 Miles Per Hour

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One of my favorite images when I roadtripped from Chicago to Los Angeles in October of 2008.  People have often asked me how I shot this particular shot-to the point where it’s easier if I explain it now on the blog.

I never once pulled over or stopped the car for this shot.  It was actually set up, composed, and taken in the span of 10 seconds while my friend was driving on the highway at 75 miles per hour.

I saw the mountain, and looking around, realized that while we were heading down the road that there was an opportunity to use the road as a lead-in line for a composition in the image.

I only did 3 things for this shot:

1.  Upon seeing the type of shot I wanted in my mind, I took a few preliminary shots to check and confirm the settings in the camera i.e. aperture, shutterspeed, iso etc.

2.  I set up the composition while my friend was driving and prepared to hit the shutter (hand held) as he hit the bend in the road that would lead to the mountain.

3.  I waited. (Good things come to those who wait) =P

At the right moment, I held down the shutter.

Voila.

I’m highly doubtful I’ll ever be back to this location in the country ever again.  But I’m thankful for the time that I did have and the memories I captured.  It’s images and memories like this that remind one of how there’s so much to see and experience in this world.

-Marc

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Road Trip ’08

Originally published November 20, 2008, I’ve re-updated this entry as I lost the original images when I changed imaging hosts…

After my last wedding of the season, my friend Joseph drove down from Lansing, Michigan to Chicago. He had quit his job and was moving to Los Angeles, driving the entire way.

This is my photography from that journey.

After spending some time in Kansas we then continued onto Denver Colorado, but not before seeing Giant Windmills for the first time in my life. At 4 stories high, they’re much more grand to see in person.

I was greeted by beautiful Landscape Imagery when we reached Colorado:

Majestic views abound simply just driving down the highway:

Majesty

After a certain point it started snowing…the weather got rough, but the sunsets were equally as beautiful:

Going through Colorado, we eventually made it to Utah where the scenery was a little more arid:

I decided to try and make a cool looking photo, but don’t try this at home…I was holding my D3 out the window of a moving car at 75 when I took this…

While In Utah we stayed at the Butch Cassidy Inn!

Leaving the Utah Mountain Range and Going Into Arizona, I shot this out the backseat window:

We stayed in Vegas for a couple of days and while there we went to see the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon Skywalk:

For those of you that don’t know…I have a tremendous fear of heights…and a 20mm lens hides the fact that I’m actually 2-3 feet away from a 4,000 foot sheer drop (for reference…the tallest building in the U.S. – The Sears Tower, is 1,500 feet high):

Grand Canyon Skywalk:

As much as I wanted to photograph the view from the skywalk, I wasn’t allowed to bring my camera onto the walk. Apparently according to the attraction heads, the glass floor is made up of several panes consisting of bulletproof glass. Made in Germany and costing $10,000 dollars per pane, the attraction didn’t want to risk someone dropping anything that might chip the the glass.

I got a picture of myself with Joe on the Skywalk, which I’ll add to this later. Let me tell you though that having a fear of heights doesn’t help when you’re on a platform made of glass overlooking a 4000 foot drop….

Our last day in Arizona, I managed to grab a shot that felt fitting as we left and drove 4 hours to Los Angeles:

I stayed in L. A. from Thursday to Sunday afternoon. One afternoon I got to hit up a Los Angeles Beach and see the Sunset.

Someday I’ll be back =)

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