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Found this flower blooming on the Edisto River at Aiken State Park, in May of this year, and thought how unusual it looked, something like a bottle brush, but different, so took some pics, and found out it's a "Itea virginica" commonly known as "Virginia Willow", or "Virginia Sweetspire". Photo # (state park-62)  #edistoriver,#aikenstatepark,#virginiawillow,#flowers, #blackandwhitephotography, #mindseyephotography,
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Over looking the Shenandoah Valley, this pine tree has found a spot in the rocks to put down it"s roots and has been waiting for years for this guy to come by and take it"s picture. Made my day! www.dsowens.com  This is a great video tutorial about about back button focusing on a Nikon that you need to check out, I've been using it for some time on my Canon 7D, but Canon has a advantage that it allows you to set up so both your shutter button and your back button work simultaneously . giving you the best of both worlds. D.S. Check Steve Perry info and video out...... Many photographers, me included, focus by half pressing on shutter release. Then we re-compose. Then we complete the press. Photographer Steve Perry shares a great improvement to your workflow by decoupling the autofocus button from the shutter release, and relocating it to button on the back of the camera. This decoupling allows for several great benefits:
http://youtu.be/FzqQskGoURE  What do you think, does this image work or not?
Everybody generally shoots with the subject looking at you,or in the middle of the frame. But rules were meant to be broken, especially by an old guy whoo doesn't like the rules. I like it for two reasons, first, it draws you in to decipher what it is, second it's different from everybody else. I just watched an hour and a half video with the number one bird photographer in the country, Arthur Morris. And he didn't have anything like it. So what do you think, trashcan or put on the wall? [email protected]  After research and designing my own camera bean bag, plus countless hours of layout cutting and sewing plus stuffing with Styrofoam peanuts to find out it doesn't work all that well- then I find a .50 cent "SQUSH" pillow at a garage sale(the one on the left) that works great and I can use for a nap as well.
Will sell the green one for $50 bucks if anybody's interested----didn't think so. TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT!!!  FROM MY "NOT SO FINE ART CATEGORY"-BUT JUST FUN STUFF. Took this shot on Hilton Head Beach recently and thought it was cool, being what looked like a 50's bike with all the accessories. He even had a tag from Atlantic City and one from Chicago on his basket-long distance rider.  Another Icon shot from Hilton Head, but it's a new old boat. Have to remind myself to use the IPhone, when I'm carrying the DSLR. The best camera to use, are all of the one's you have with you.  A rare find at the farmers market today to find a fifth generation Sweet Grass Basketweaver right here in Aiken, SC, need to go by and check her out- Sarah Hott. More photos to follow on FB, and Aiken Standard.  The 10th annual Juried Photo Exhibition at the "Mack" in McCormick South Carolina for the month of July 2013 Check it out!  This is conventional post processing in Photoshop, it's a good shot but I just can't decide between the two which one I like.
This is the Bunker Hill covered bridge in North Carolina, one of two left in the state. Just a short distance off of Interstate 40 heading east from Asheville. Shooting black and white is all about capturing different tones. Not the colors, this is hard to see at first, but a trick that I've learned to help you in this process is to set your camera's creative mode up to display in black and white, but still capturing the image in color. This way you can see the effects immediately but still have all the data of a color file to get the best results from your post processing. You should always shoot in raw as well. For more detail.
Also try squinting, if you squint, you see less detail in the scene and more of the distinct tones that will become black and whites and grays. You need to work with dynamic light, too often, dull light gives muddy-looking black and white images. Just a little tip that I've discovered recently for shooting with your iPhone,
To minimize the effect of camera shake, or in this case Iphone shake, after you focus on your subject. If you hold your finger on camera button until you're ready to take the picture, then just by lifting your finger, it releases the shutter. This is especially helpful in low light conditions. A photo i took at Table Rock State Park in 2012 as part of the South Carolina Artist-In-Residence program with the State Park system was on display in one of the cabin at the park, and because of that i received a request this month for a print of that photo, the photo is of the Spill Way for the lake at the park, which was built by the CCC corp.out of granite stones. well it's on the way to the one owner in Highlands, NC today. I love my JOB,....Oh that's right, it's not a job if you love doing it. 
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