I captured this from the highway on the way to a Memorial Day weekend hot air balloon festival. I had my friend go to my trunk and get the rented 5D Mark II and Sigma 50-500mm lens for me. We were in completely stopped traffic for most of an hour, and I was able to capture several shots from my car. The festival was an organizational disaster once we got there. There were no balloons set up. Then, we found out there were no provisions to get balloons back from their earlier flights, so they were stuck on the road. Nobody was able to tell us when the evening glow was. Eventually, several pilots told us there wasn't one, so we packed up to leave. On the way out, they announced that they WERE doing one, but by then, it was too late as I was outside the area already. On top of that, only 4-5 balloons had even made it back to the field. Next year, I will probably either not go, or go earlier under the assumption that they hopefully have it together this time.
I find it hard to believe that I've never been to the Eno River State Park in Durham County. I've lived here all of my functional life, and in all twenty of those, have never checked it out. It was very reminiscent of this time my parents took me to a river out in California. Lots of shallow pools and miniature falls, and lots of places to go out and play in. Snakes play in the water, too. A family of kids started freaking out as a tiny, adorable thing went past them, desparately holding its head over the waters. The father caught it in a butterfly net and moved it a few ponds over so that it could safely escape into the woods.
I went to Washington, D.C. with my school's eigth grade back in March. While there, I took a roll of my favorite 35mm film, the sadly discontinued Kodak BW400CN. I think its the first time I've ever shot an entire roll in one day. At any rate, I captured this in the third room of the FDR memorial, representing the breadlines of the Great Depression. The sculpture and its facial expressions perfectly capture that. The angle was perfect so that when I turned the right way, you almost couldn't tell that the brick wall wasn't a building. I do so adore my 50mm f/1.8 lens, as it worked perfectly on the old Canon EOS 650 and gets excellent bokeh.
