Last night I headed over to the North Fulton Golf Course in Chastain Park to capture some pictures of the supermoon. This vantage point gave me a great look at the moon along with a view of the Buckhead skyline.
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Water Spigot
Yesterday while walking around Chastain Park I found this really cool water spigot near the Chastain Arts Center.
Harley Davidson Golf Cart
This is by far my favorite golf cart. It’s a Harley Davidson golf cart with a center wheel and center steering. It is located on the grounds of the Chastain Park Conservancy in Chastain Park. Over the years I have hoped to see it restored, but today I’m coming to grips with it being more of a piece of art.
Stone Stairway at the Master Grill
This stone stairway is part of the Master Grill in Chastain Park. The Master Grill was developed in the 1920’s under the leadership of William L. Monroe Sr., a master stonesman. This is a 5 file HDR image processed in Photomatix Pro and Lightroom. This photo was done for the 2013 Weekly Photo Challenge I am taking part in this year. You can read more about Chastain Park in an article I wrote for Buckhead Patch http://buckhead.patch.com/articles/chastain-park-a-world-class-neighborhood-and-park
Rest Stop in North Fulton Golf Course
Rest stop on the eastern side of North Fulton Golf Course along Lake Forest Drive in Chastain Park.
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HDR Halloween Yard Decorations
Today we capped off Fall Break by decorating the front yard with some Halloween decorations. Here’s a shot of the scary grave yard.
Wild Mushrooms
This morning I was walking around Chastain Park and came across these cool mushrooms dancing in the morning sun.
Nancy Creek Through Chastain Park
Today Henry and I went for a walk with Cody in Chastain Park. We walked on the east side of the park off of Lake Forest along Nancy Creek. I went back later with my camera and got some shots of the creek. As I walked up the biggest blue heron was standing in the water right where I was headed. I only had my wide angle lens and couldn’t get close enough to get a picture of him. He flew off pretty quickly as I tried to get closer. Oh well, I was able to get some good shots of the creek and water. Here is a close-up of the water rolling across the rocks.
Weekly Photo Challenge – Green
This week’s photo challenge subject “green” took a bit of thought. Over the years I have been pretty involved with the green scene here in Atlanta so my first thought was something environmental. Over the weekend we went to the ‘barn’ in Chastain Park and the boys picked a huge watermelon. We haven’t cracked it open yet so it was luring in my mind as an idea.
As a kid growing up in Macon, GA, each summer, maybe 4th of July or some holiday we would go to the swimming pool at Idle Hour Country Club. They would have all kinds of games throughout the day, but one of the fun ones was the greasy watermelon. They would grease them up, throw’em in the pool and the kids would wrestle over them and the first one to hoist it out of the pool won. When I told Martha I was going to grease up the watermelon, you can imagine the look on her face.
So here is how I did it:
I laid down some dark brown carpet pieces inside my light box to create a dark background and opened up the aperture to f4.5 which is as far as the Tamron 10-24mm will go. I did this to fade out the carpet as much as I could to blur the detail. Once I had my positioning right, I used mineral oil to bring out the rich green colors of the watermelon. For lighting I just had two lights shining in, one from the top left and one from the right about centered.
My camera was in aperture priority mode and I used the auto-bracketing feature to get three quick shots. I processed the photos using SNS-HDR Pro and after some tweaking, this is what came out the other side. I was pretty pleased with the outcome.
- Camera – Nikon D90
- Focal Length – 24 mm
- Shutter Speed – 1/200 sec.
- Aperture – 4.5
- ISO – 200
The East Side of Chastain Park
Here are some pictures from the east side of Chastain Park. It’s a very natural area in the park that is way underused. Nancy Creek runs through it and provides a beautiful backdrop for a walk in the park or picnic at one of the tables in the area.
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