It’s Throwback Thursday again! Thought I’d share a couple more of my old Yearbook photos. These are from a production of Romeo and Juliet that my high school put on during my senior year. The one of the guy holding the torch was actually published in the yearbook!
October 5, 2015
The clouds rolled in, the skies darkened, the winds picked up and then…the first drops of Fall fell from the sky. But then, just as soon as it started it stopped, and the silver cracks appeared between the clouds, letting in bright rays of sunshine.
There are few things more beautiful than that period right after a rain, where everything is glistening and the air smells fresh. Fortunately the rains began to let up just as I was finishing my shift at work, so I raced home, changed, and then took my 97′ Jeep Cherokee (nicknamed Jon Snow) out for his first taste of dirt.
There are tons of trails and public land just outside Carson City, so I took some easy dirt roads up and around the Prison Hill area, admiring the scenery and letting Jon Snow rumble contentedly across the damp dirt. It was a beautiful evening, and definitely a treat getting out of the town for a while.
Here’s some pics from my evening out, hope you enjoy!
October 3, 2015
Just wanted to share another wildlife picture with you all today! This is an adorable furry donkey that I saw up at Virginia City, Nevada
October 2, 2015
Friday night! That quintessential “hang-out” time of the week, where (most) people have a few days off to look forward to. Its the day we look forward to most and the day we mourn the most when its over.
Anyway, just wanted to share this photograph I took of some of my friends one memorable Friday night. Hope you’re all having a great night tonight!
October 1, 2015
Back when I was in high school I was fortunate to be a part of the yearbook staff as a photographer. It was an amazing experience and definitely one of the things I miss the most about high school. So, today I wanted to share some of the photographs I was able to save. These are from a school event we had every year called “Air Guitar”. For those of you unfamiliar with air guitar, basically groups of students would get up on the stage and dance and lip sync to popular songs, and then the student body would vote and decide on a winner. It was probably one of the most popular and eagerly anticipated events of the year, and also one of the most fun to cover as a yearbook photographer.
Anyway, here’s a couple of photos I was able to dig up! Hope you enjoy!
September 30, 2015
Hey everyone! Happy last day of September! Can’t believe that tomorrow is going to be October. Everyone get their Halloween candy yet?
Anyways, just wanted add to my Flower Garden collection with a few more flower shots.
(Sidenote, my other domain is AOH Photography, and that’s my old logo in the corner of these pics. Don’t have un-watermarked copies, unfortunately.)
September 29, 2015
Portraiture is at the same time one of my favorite types of photography, and one of the hardest for me to do. A good portrait isn’t just composed well; it also has to capture in some way the subject’s personality, convey intimate details through the details in the photograph. And coaxing out just the right emotion in just the right setting takes a special kind of person.
Now, being someone whose typically a bit on the socially awkward side, doing all that can be a difficult for me. But I think that’s why I enjoy so much; that time, and the skill, and the patience required to get a good portrait make it all that much more rewarding.
Anyway, here’s a few of my attempts at portraiture! Definitely one area of photography I would love to learn and grow in!
September 28, 2015
Although Nevada is officially known as “the Silver State”, and probably would even not be a state if it weren’t for the discovery of silver in the 1800’s, Nevada also produced a substantial amount of gold. The entire state is littered with dozens of old ghost towns, remnants of the the great mining boom that transformed the Territory into the nation’s 36th state. One of those small, lesser known towns was Pine Grove.
Gold was discovered in the area 1866, and by the 1870’s the town had become a bustling community of over 600 people, five saloons, three hotels, a wells fargo agent, two doctor’s offices, and a barber shop. Pine Grove’s two principle mines, the Wilson Mine and the Wheeler mine, proved to be very profitable and by 1893 would produce over $8 million in gold bullion. The town would continue to be occupied until the early 1930’s.
Fortunately, Pine Grove is located only about 30 miles outside of Carson City. So, with a destination and a thirst for some history, I grabbed my camera and headed out into the west.
Here’s what the once quite profitable mining town looks like today:
September 27, 2015
We’ve all been there before: Friday night, you have some place to be, but all you see in front of you is a sea of red taillights, and no end in sight. For those of us who have to drive around a busy city on a daily basis, traffic is just an unfortunate regularity.
But right off of highway 395, as it passes through Carson City, there’s some traffic that’s a just a little different…tractors!
I saw these guys all lined up on the dirt outline of what will eventually become part of the highway, partly adorable and partly bizarre. Not every day you see that many tractors all so neatly lined up!
September 26, 2015
Getting good, close-up photos of wildlife takes a combination of patience, expensive lens, and luck. But mostly luck.
Now, I won’t lie, I can be a bit short on patience, and my collection of lenses is…a bit wanting, to say the least, but every once in a while I would have a bit of luck and manage to capture an image of an animal or insect that wasn’t just a grainy dot in the distance. I’ll be adding to this collection periodically throughout my detours, but just to get you started here’s one of my favorites, a rare desert horned lizard!
