Golf Tournament

These are a few of the pictures I took at the annual St. Augustine Amateur. The tournament took place October 22-24.

Environmental Portraits

I took my environmental portraits of Jonathan Seletyn. He is a flight instructor for Florida Aviation located at the Northeast Florida Regional Airport.

 "I've been instructing for about 3 years" Jonathan Seletyn, 25, of St. Augustine, FL

Jonathan in the cockpit of Cessna 172S

Jonathan in front of a Piper Cherokee Warrior PA28-161

According to Jonathan he has students that come in weekly and "also have international students who come in for a month." The international students fly twice a day and are able to get there pilot license in that one month.

Movement

For this assignment I needed to take one picture with frozen motion and one with blurred motion. I thought taking two pictures of the same thing would show how much the two techniques can differ. The first picture, frozen motion, was taken at f2.8, with 1/8000 shutter and iso of 320. The second picture, blurred motion was taken at f22, with 1/40 shutter and iso 100.

    

Robert Cantu, 23, of St. Augustine riding his motorcycle at Vilano Beach.

I added this picture I took last year because it was the first time I tried this technique. It was taken at Volusia Speedway in Barberville, FL. It was a lot harder then I thought it would be and out of about 100 pictures only one came out looking ok.

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Street Photography

While walking along St. George street looking for something interesting to photograph I found Jack and Pinks. They're 17 and live in St. Augustine right now although it sounds and looks like they don't stay in one place to long. Jack was playing guitar and singing lead and Pinks was singing back up. I enjoyed their music especially one song called "I've got Poor Hygiene" that had lyrics like "This week I drank beer more times then I brushed my teeth." They were both very nice and I'm glad I was able to get some pictures.

Sense of Place

I recently went on a ghost tour that took me to the Castillo De San Marcos (the fort) at night. It wasn't my first time going to the fort at night but I had never really noticed how different it was. I see the fort almost every day and never think to much of it but at night it was ominous and  eerily beautiful. Two nights later I went back at 1am to try and capture that feeling. I used long exposures not only so the pictures would turn out bright but so that you could see more then the naked eye would usually see. I hope these pictures help convey my message.

This picture shows the erie beauty I was talking about. A lot of the fort is lit but it still has its dark corners.

It was very dark in this area of the fort, there are no lights. I like this picture because it shows some beauty that your eyes can't usually see.

The fort towering over someone.

During the ghost tour they kept mentioning orbs in pictures. While I was at the fort I was also asked if I had seen anything or captured any orbs in my pictures. This picture had some cool lens flare that I suppose could be mistaken as an orb so I thought it would be interesting to add.

Ghost Tour Event

These are some pictures from a ghost tour I went on recently, this tour claims that it is the most authentic paranormal tour in St. Augustine. Everyone is given an EMF detector and the tour itself focuses more on the study of the paranormal then just "ghost stories." The tour was led by Harry Stafford, M. Div., Ph.D and paranormal investigator.

People on the tour trying out their EMF meters.

This is the EMF meter that was handed out to everyone.

Harry leading the way behind the Castillo De San Marcos 

Harry looking at a picture taken that appeared to have an orb in it.