Not too much going on this summer besides working a little bit and spending time friends and family. Needless to say, I have some free time on my hands. So tonight I got my basketball, camera, tripod and remote control for my camera and headed outside. I sat up the tripod in several different positions and starting taking pics while shooting around. I put my camera on a two second delay and had the remote in my pocket so it wouldn't show up in the pics. So after 30 mins I had about 60 pics and here are a few of my favorites.

 

 

 

Here's a video of one of my classes saying goodbye. This was my second year with this group. They weren't usually excited for class, unless we were doing karaoke, but they are a good group of kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PlFH181pVM

Another site with my pictures. pretty much all the places I traveled to over the past year. Enjoy!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamal424/

 

Norris Lake. This was taken at 2:30 am with only the light from the moon.

Had a great weekend with the 50mm lens. I definitely enjoyed it but did not fall in love with it. I will buy it at some point but it is nothing that I necessarily need right away. I am sad to send it back to borrowlenses.com tomorrow however I will use their services again soon.

I'm renting a lens for my camera so I'm exciting about getting to play around with it this weekend. I've heard nothing but good things about the lens so hopefully I will be able to make some good things happen! If it goes well, I'm pretty sure I am going to buy this lens and probably do away with my kit lens.

 

the sunsphere

 

interesting flowers at the World's Fair Park

 

el pato

 

Concord Park

 

Concord Park