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like promised [sort of]

corey m — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:21:14 +0000

Like I said yesterday, I am posting up a few photos. But… these aren’t the ones from the other day. These are actually from the FIRST OF OCTOBER! Yes, the month in which I only had one blog post….

I took these one day on my lunch break. It was nice out and I decided to take advantage of it, so I went for a walk. I’ve got a couple of HDRs, one faux tilt-shift and a few other “keepers.” Enjoy!

i went for a walk

corey m — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:18:11 +0000

One day at work last week, I ate my lunch and had some time, so…I went walking around, camera in-hand. I used to go out really late at night or whenever I got bored and just shoot. I seemed to always land myself downtown, because there are so many textures, looks, people and just whatever else I might point at. But like I said, I almost always did it at night. So it was nice to get out during the daytime and be able to click a few shots off.

They have updated some of the artwork/structures downtown. I like most of them, especially this huge flower. I think I am attracted to the rust.

I took this shot with the work 70-200 lens. I need this lens! Look at the smooth bokeh and super shallow DOF

I am still undecided if I like this one or not…

This graffiti wall downtown is covered in really cool art. There is pen work, spray paint, wheat paste, crayons, markers, you name it. Knoxville need more walls like this. Graffiti shouldn’t have to be illegal, most larger cities have lots of walls specifically for graffiti

It’s hard to walk around downtown and not take at least one shot of the Tennessee Theatre. This one came out horrible, I almost cut off the tops of the buildings

I didn’t care for the rest of this sculpture, but the cowboy lounging was kinda cool.

two more…

braving the cold

corey m — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:28:44 +0000

This past Friday was cold, it was the night of our work Christmas party, First Friday and the Christmas Parade downtown.

For whatever reason, I woke up that morning and knew that I wanted to take some photos. So I drove in, as opposed to biking. Driving to work is expensive on two accounts: gas and parking. Before the “economic crisis” I could park for about 90 cents a day at the parallel spots on Central. Since this damn crisis, everyone is looking for that cheap spot. Meaning every single parallel spot downtown is taken. Which leaves me with any of the three garages, all of which charge $5 a day to park!

So I’ve devised this plan. The days that I have to drive in, I just fart around downtown (or stay over at work when I can) until around 6:30 when the garages stop charging.

That is the situation I was in on Friday. So I just put my stuff in my car, got my camera and just started walking around. I wound up at the convention center trying to recreate a shot I took while working a wedding with Waldorf.

I like what I came back with. I wished I could have made my way to the Sunsphere a little sooner to take advantage of the awesome evening glow. O’well, here they are…