This year there were somewhere around 32,000 people in around 900 cities all over the world. And I was in our Cheyenne group. We had maybe 35 people, though a lot seemed to wander off or just quit early. Besides it being a pretty warm summer day here, Frontier Days was also going on. Which is a big western Yee-Haa rodeo festival. If you're into that sort of thing. Which I'm not.
But it was a very interesting day at any rate. Got some interesting shots. Two are entered in our cities walk for consideration of a win, and going on to the main competition. One winning photo from each city entered for some pretty big prizes. Which of the following two did I enter???
A sky shot with some teepees in the Indian Village. Part of the Frontier Days activity. I worked on the cloud some, added a little darkness to add to the drama of it.
It's the Bee-52! It was a huge bee. About thumb sized. The photo is pretty good, but background was a little too busy. So I gave it some zoom blur to artsy it up a little.
Shot near the bee shot. Just a cluster of yellow flowers. But these ones really grouped together nicely, with no distracting background. And I really like how the depth of field turned out on this.
Now we're downtown. For the main part of the walk. For whatever reason I kept coming back to this shot of the lamp. I just like how it looks. It's not as sharp as I'd like. This was shot with my long zoom lens, zoomed in, and handheld. If I'd had a tripod it coulda been better. But I still like it a lot.
A B&W shot of the Capitol building. I worked on the contrasts quite a bit.
A shot near the end. Nice spelling! Ok, I won't terspass! I promsie!
Went back in the evening (it was a long day) to shoot the carnival at night. Hard to do without a tripod. But this shot on a carousel wasn't bad, after quite a bit of photoshop work.Our Photowalk:
It was an interesting, fun day. Nice to see what other people shot at the same time.
Which two did I enter? The two yellow flowers and the lamp on the building.
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