Day 31/366

Well it's the last day of January 2012 so lets get silly. This is a second floor window in down town Faribault. It was 2:10 pm on a sunny and warm afternoon. I still am trying to get the feel for my Sigma lens. It is a little to hard to take good shots without my tripod. This one came out okay because of the speed I shot at. See you next month.
Focal Length: 210 mm
F Number: f 9
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/320

Day 30/366

I've seen the light. No it's just the sun thru some trees. It was taken at 1:26 pm at City View Park. Used my Sony a380 with my Sigma 70-300 lens.
Focal Length: 90 mm
F Number:  f 11
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/80

Day 29/366

Sunday and it's cold out, so I stayed inside and took this of and old camera. I used my Sigma 70-300 mm lens and set up my tripod and snapped away.
Focal Length: 135 mm
F Number: f 10
ISO: 400
Exposure Time: 1/8

Day 28/366

It was 12:08pm sunny and about 24 degrees. I drove by Jefferson elementary school and stopped at the play ground. It was good to be using my Sony a380 with it's DT 18-55mm lens.
Focal Length: 55 mm
F Number: f 5.6
ISO: 200
Exposure Time: 1/4000

Day 27/366

Well as you can see I finally got my Sony a380 back and it is working fine. So I took a self portrait. I used my Sigma 70-300 lens on a tripod.So if I do say so myself I'm looking good. Now that you know what I look like don't forget to say hello when you see me on the street.
Focal Length: 100 mm
F Number: f 4
ISO: 200
ExposureTime: 1/1.3

Day 26/366

Just got out of work and drove down town on Central Ave.Stopped between 3rd St. and 2nd St. NE. This is a couple of old buildings that are Circa 1874. Both building are very similar. It was 40 degrees at 2 pm when I took this pic.
Focal Length: 13.8 mm
F Number: f 2.8
ISO 100
Exposure Time: 1/800

Day 25/366

Wednesday afternoon in downtown Faribault a Somalian woman walking down 3rd Ave. around 2:30 pm. I was taking photos of a building across the street when this woman went by me. I looked over and loved the rich purple color agianst the gray day. So I snapped a couple of shots.
Focal Length: 65.2 mm
F Number: f 5
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/160

Day 24/366

Just a goose sitting in the snow. Photo was taken by the King Mill Dam.
Focal Length: 70 mm
F Number: f 7
ISO 100
Exposure Time: 1/200

Day 23/366

I don't care how much snow there is I'm going out. This was taking on 2nd Ave. by the woolen mill. Yes it snowed today.
Focal Length: 48.3 mm
F Number: f 8
ISO: 100
Exposure Time:1/160

Day 22/366

Well it's 1 pm and a balmy 25 degrees out. So who needs shoes socks or pants to go outside not a real man. I was pulling out of a parking lot across the street from this house so I rolled down the window and snapped this.
Focal Length: 32.5 mm
F Number: f 7
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/125

Day 21/366

Hi, here is a photo of a red barn. It is east of Faribault by the Straight River Golf Course.
Focal Length: 7.7 mm
F Number: f 8
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/800

Day 20/366

It snowed today and was cold, warmer then yesterday. The snow stopped around 12:30pm after a few inches fell. I had just finished snow blowing my driveway and saw this so I snapped the shot.
Focal Length: 20.7 mm
F Number: f 2.8
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/800

Day 19/366

Well it was freezing out today,but I stopped to take some photos anyway (I must be nuts). I just saw this man hurrying to get in the building and out of the cold. If you look to the right hand side of the photo you will see his shadow. Still using the Olympus C-2100.
Focal Length: 37.4 mm
F Number: f 5.6
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/800

Day 18/366

Hey it's a little bit cold but lets get some rays any way. These are a couple of benches just below the King Mill Dam. It was around 2:25 pm. Sunny and cold but what else is new. I used the Olympus C-2100.
Focal Length: 70 mm
F Number: f 3.5
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/800

Day 17/366

Hello, this is one of the most colorful houses in Faribault the town I live in. The sun finally came out and is just a little south west of the house as I took the picture. I took it from across the street looking slightly south east. Using my Olympus C-2100.
Focal Length: 20.7mm
F Number: f 8
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/320

Day 16/366

Today I took a shot of a tool board in my room at work. I used my Olympus C-2100 with flash. Not much else to say it's Monday.
Focal Length: 12.3mm
F Number: f 2.8
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/50

Day 15/366

Hello, hope you are enjoying the day. Today I am using a different camera as I had to send my Sony in for some repair work. So yesterday I was kind of down trying to figure out how to shoot my photos. First I was thinking of my Kodak Easy Share CD33, it's a point and shoot. Then I remembered my Olympus Camedia C-2100 Ultra Zoom. So I charged up the batteries for it and read up on how to shoot in Aperture priority mode and out I went. This picture was taken from the bottom of the walking bridge looking up. It was around 11am on a bright sunny day.
Focal Length: 12mm
F Number: f 3.5
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/400

Day 14/366

Good morning everyone I took this photo looking south from my driveway at 7:01am. In the background is a billboard and I-35. The two bands of lights are from traffic driving by. This was taking with my Sony a380 and Sigma 70-300mm lens.
Focal Length: 70mm
F Number: f 4
ISO: 400
Exposure Time: 6 sec.

Day 13/366

This is a house just down the road from where I work. As you can see they are ready for a long cold winter. After shooting this photo I decided to see how it looked in black and white. Below it is untouched. Let me know which you like better.
Focal Length: 55mm
F Number: f 13
ISO: 200                                                                                            
Exposure Time: 1/60                    

Day 12/366

Good afternoon today I braved the freezing cold after work and drove over to the Faribo Woolen Mill Dam. It was 12 degrees with a wind chill of -9. I only took 26 shots but by that time I was having a hard time feeling my fingers.This was taken from the top of the dam looking at the woolen mill.I picked this photo because I like that you see some of the building and you see its reflection in the water. My Sony a380 and my Sigma 70-300mm lens did it again.
Focal Length: 70mm
F Number: f 9
ISO:200
Exposure Time:1/80

Day 11/366

Hello, this is an oak tree on my front lawn for some reason it didn't drop all it leaves. It is grey and snowy out so i didn't want to go walking around looking for things to photograph.Once again I used my Sony a380 with the Sigma 70-300mm lens on it.
Focal Length: 200mm
F Number: f 5
ISO: 400
Exposure Time: 1/400

Day10/366

Just another beautiful day about 50 degrees out. Just move down 6th St. NE to Central Park and as I was setting up this man road by. I was going to take a few shots of Our Merciful Savior, which I did. The bike rider was heading west on 6th I was by 4th Ave. This was taking with my Sony a380 and the Sigma 70-300mm lens at 2:15 pm.
Focal Length:100mm
F Number: f 7.1
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 1/160

Day9/366

Hello everyone hope you all had a wonderful weekend.Today after driving around and taking about fifty shots I ended up at home and decided to try something new. I walked over to my flower garden with my tripod and camera with my Sigma 70-300 DG MACRO lens. With the camera three feet from a Zebra Grass plant I set the lens to the macro setting and this is what I got. It was 2:45pm on a sunny and pretty warm day for January in Mn.
Focal Length:300mm Macro
F Number: f 7.1
ISO: 100
Exposure Time 1/320

Day8/366

Good morning this is the start of week two of 1/dayphoto. I just hope everyone is enjoying this as much as I am taking these pictures. It has been hard at times to fine something that is not the same thing over and over. Also it is cold outside and I have had a hard time feeling my fingers on the camera buttons. Today a went out and drove downtown to take some photos. They just didn't look that great when I looked at them on the compute.So on my way home I stopped at a playground down the street from my home.After I took a few shoot there I got back in the car and started to u-turn it to head home,when I saw the CATHOLIC CHURCH so I pulled into the dead end so I would have a clear view of it. I used my Sony a380 with the Sigma 75-300mm lens that I have used before. It was taking at 7:18am.
Focal Length: 300mm
F Number: f5.6
ISO: 800
Exposure Time: 1/30

Day7/366

Today I took my photo at the corner of 4th St.NE and Central Ave. in down town Faribault, Mn. It was 5:25 am and I was standing in the middle of the street looking south. As you can see there wasn't any traffic.Not even a police car to be seen.
Once again I used my Sony a380 with its DT18-55mm F3.5-5.6SAM lens.
Focal Length: 55mm
F Number: f5.6
ISO: 3200
Exposure Time: 1/50

Day6/366

Mrs. Claus says no more cookies till Christmas.(Boo Hoo).But at less I have some CUTIES (HO,HO.)
I took this photo around 5:15am, it is a bowl of cuties with a small Santa sitting on top. I set up my camera on a tripod and used the built in flash.
The camera was a Sony a380 with a Sigma 70-300 f4-5.6 DG MACRO lens.
Focal Length: 200mm
F Number: f8
ISO: 100
Exopsure Time: 1/125
Flash: nomal

Day 5/366

It was a gorgeous day temp. was about 55 degrees at around 2:15pm. So I took my camera over to the KING MILL DAM. The water was not running very much as you can see in this picture.I was on the east side of the dam looking down an to the west. I like this photo because the water coming down the side looks like a vail or curtain.Once again I used my sony a380 with a Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG Macro lens.
Focal length :70mm
F number : f8
ISO : 100
Exposure Time : 1/5

Day 4/366

Today's photo is that of the Shumway Hall clock tower at Shattuck St.- Mary's School. It was a nice day the temperature was in the mid thirties.The time was 2:15 pm as seen on the clock.There was a nice breeze out of the south unfolding the flags giving motion to the picture.
I used my Sony a380 with a sigma 70 -300 mm F4-5.6 DG MACRO lens
Focal Length : 70mm
F number : f5.6
ISO : 100
Exposure Time : 1/250

DAY3 of 366

Hello,
It's day 3 and my photo today is something different then day one and day two. This is just someone who happened by while I was taking pictures on the walking bridge over the Straight River. It was not as cold as Monday also it was 3:00pm.The bridge is just east of Bostons Pizza and south of the Depot.
I used my Sony a380 with DT18-55mm F3.5-5.6SAM Lens.
Focal Length: 55mm
F number: f5.6
Exposure Time 1/160

Day 2 of 366

Hello,
It's day 2 of my 366 photos of 2012. This is a picture of Our Merciful Saviour in Faribault, Minnesota. It is the Episcopal Cathedral. It was taken at 6:44 am, I was on my way home from dropping my son and his girlfriend at the airport. It was bitter cold only 14 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind was blowing about 5-10 miles/hr. I parked my car across the street from the church and set up on the sidewalk. There was no one around as I took my photo, it was calm and peaceful. I know there will be people moving around there tomorrow morning being today is the New Year holiday. I hope you enjoy the photo, please let me know what you think.
I used a Sony a380 with a DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM lens. It was on my Ambico tripod.
Focal length : 18mm
F Number : f4
ISO : 400
Exposure Time 3.2 sec.

Day1 of 366

                                                      
                                                           DAWN OF A NEW YEAR

This is my 1st photo of the New Year it was taking with a sony a380 using a sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG MACRO lense It is a photo looking east from my driveway. I live in southern Minnesota and it was cold and windy at the time of this shot. I'm going to take and post a new photo every day for all 366 days of 2012. It is the 510th leap year. I hope everyone will enjoy these photos that I will be posting and writing about. My goal is to become a better photographer and to bring joy to those who follow my blog.
thank you,
ross