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Brett Michaels at the Taste of Colorado

Shawn — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:55:20 +0000

So, as the Taste of Colorado comes to town I once again get my shot at some free concert photography. This years its Brett Michaels of Poison fame. I admit, I listened to that as a kid. I think their first album came out when I was in middle school. A guy in my class thought by the cover of the album that they were all girls… Though, you can’t fault him too much for that one. There was more make-up on the cover of that album than on Dee Schneider.

I fully expected this show to be a train wreck but it was actually quite good. He impressed me by saying “let’s bring the boys home” during the inevitable dedication of “Something to Believe In” to our troops overseas. But, then, he’s also wearing a shirt with a picture of himself on it, so there’s that to weigh in too

Now that’s a lot of frogs!

Shawn — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:30:07 +0000

Artist Melody Sealman and a group of cohorts arranged thousands of plaster frogs on the 16th Street Mall this morning. The majority of the effort was spent on an arrangement outside the bus station at 16th and Market. The effort was mirrored in other cities as well. Sealman and her crew worked 8 months to prepare for this day.

Unfortunately a good deal of the frogs along other areas of the 16th Street Mall were swept up by maintenance crews.

Obviously by the two photos I chose to display, the feature she put together around the “king” centerpiece was my favorite. All the little frogs were gathered around, as if waiting for his command to pounce.

Each little frog was hand made by Sealman and her friends. The frogs closest to the “king” were all wrapped in silver leaf. And to boot she encouraged viewers to pick one out and take it home. The only one she wouldn’t let anyone touch was the “king”. And for good reason. That little bugger is cool!

Colorado Sport International Airshow.

Shawn — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:57:12 +0000

I headed out to the Colorado Sport International Airshow today and had a pretty good time until my foot started bothering me. I think these shoes are toast ’cause I don’t have foot problems. I left early, before the 2nd air demonstration with the jets. Boo. Its probably for the best. The light wasn’t favorable (everything in the air was pretty much backlit) and I wasn’t shooting well anyway.

Update: A few more from yesterday:

So fuzzy!

Shawn — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:14:02 +0000

Found this lil’ guy making his way across the sidewalk this morning while walking the dogs. So, naturally, I interrupted his walk to talk a few pics… he was rather confused about suddenly being in the air and moving around. Didn’t make him any less active, though. Lil’ bugger was hard to shoot ’cause he wouldn’t sit still.

A bit wonky, but I still like it

Shawn — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:44:28 +0000

I would like it better if there was more of those great clouds in the negative space towards the lower left, but all in all its still fun.

It was a flower kinda day this morning

Shawn — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:39:09 +0000

The wife went off to run and naturally, I went off with my camera After all, why would I run? I wasn’t being chased.

Rooftop Sunset

Shawn — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:23:06 +0000

Kids: don’t try this at home. I’m a trained… well, buffoon, probably.

photos.top-frog.com

Shawn — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:58:06 +0000

I’ve been putting off doing something like this for a while now, but I finally broke down and signed up for a Zenfolio account so I can try and sell some of my photography. I figure its gotta be worth something to someone, right?

So, photos.top-frog.com is the site and possibly, at this time, one of the worst implementations of Zenfolio theming in recent history.

Its mostly event photos now, spurred by trying to quickly put together a venue for sharing and selling photos of my Dad’s racing clubs. The events currently on the site now are:

So, as time goes on I’ll be putting more stuff up. Pretty much pruning just the good stuff from my flickr account and seeing if it flies. I’ve got a year to figure out how to pimp it and make it work before having to renew the account. Hopefully now the addiction can feed me a bit now instead of the other way around…

Another day at the zoo: the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo this time

Shawn — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:45:17 +0000

Spent a nice day with the folks down at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. The zoo is great. Damn nice for podunk little city like that The giraffe exhibit is certainly something to go for. They don’t like being touched but its damn cool to get that close to them.

I’m a little weirded out by the results of the day. The camera interpreted the light very strangely and everything seems a bit warm. I hope to have properly accounted for it in the processing. View the full set of images on Flickr.

Non race photos from a day at the races

Shawn — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:38:10 +0000

I love heading out to the track and taking oodles and oodles of mediocre pictures of cars running around the track, but this weekend I found more to enjoy surrounding the race that actually in the races itself. The above photo was by far my favorite. I noticed the rider doing a few tricks on his way out to one of the track bunkers so I followed him on his ride back, hoping that he’d have fun on the way back in. Well, he noticed me lookin’ at him and hammed it up. This photo by far falls in to the category of “be prepared to be lucky”. Had I not been watching things around the preparation of the race I’d have missed a great opportunity.

The ATV wasn’t the only fun part of the day. Attached are a few more fun pics that had nothing to do with Porsche Club racing.