Arch and Riley with the Telephoto

Here are the first photo's I took when I found the 70-300. I really liked the bokeh in these but was still so unsure of how exactly to use the lens best, so these are not amazing but like I said, I'm so in love with the big beautiful green bokeh :)

Enjoy!

Sunset Cruise on Pax River

I'm pretty late posting these just because I've been so busy at school, but Ryan, my brother and I spent a good few hours out on the river a few weeks ago and I got these with a new lens I found hanging around the house. This is with a 70-300 Nikkor and I really like it. I've also gotten some good ones of the dogs with this lens and will need to post those. I just need to fine tune learning how to focus is correctly but I'm getting there.

These came out alright I think. Especially once the sun started dropping a little, the lighting looked awesome, but I need to learn the lens a little better.

Anyways, enjoy a little piece of one of my favorite places to be! Nothing beats the river. :)

Grandma's Cats

Mom and I visited with my grandparents on Monday afternoon and I was able to get a few shots of her cats. I rarely ever photograph any of our cats, and think they're sort of difficult animals to get shots of, but these came out pretty cool :)

Logos!

With all of this downtime in the mornings before class (since it's the first week and all and I'm still trying to get the hang of the whole school deal), I've been playing with logos on Photoshop and came up with these two that I really like. Not sure if I like it better with the dog head or without. And, just a fun fact, the lab head is actually Riley's silhouette! Pretty cool :)

These first two are just my name...but with different fonts. I'm much more fond of the first one, which is one that I just designed this morning. The second is one that I designed a few months ago and am not that excited about anymore.

These next two are with Riley's silhouette. I think it looks awesome on the picture of Archie, however on the picture of Landon, I really prefer the name only logo without the graphic...which is the first in the post.

South Carolina with Landon and Dustin

I got home last Thursday from spending four days in South Carolina with my wonderful boyfriend and his amazing son Landon. We had such a good time on the river, fishing at his uncles farm, and at Edisto Beach where we spent a few days. I miss them TONS, but I think these pictures are pretty priceless and show how much love they have for one another. :)

U.S. Concrete On-Site, Inc.

A few weeks ago I spent some time in New Orleans with Dustin and was able to get some time out on the job. It worked out well, since I decided to do a really big project for my Journalism/New Media class on him and this way I could really get some honest shots of him in action. It was really fun seeing what they do out there and how everything comes together. Unfortunately I took the wrong lens by mistake...so this was all with the 50mm portrait lens rather than the 18-135 zoom which would have been much more ideal for this situation. It was a challenge but I made it work. Here are some of the better pictures of my guy hard at work :)

For anyone interested, here is the final project I ended up with: http://tiger.towson.edu/~bbowli1/slideshow/index.html