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Remember Me?

Hello blog, it's me again. I'm sorry that I have been neglecting you. I have been a bad blogger lately and just completely lost interest in posting for the last few months. Even though I have plenty of stuff to share with you, I'm just too lazy...

So in hopes that you will accept my appology, I have brought a peace offering: more inline shots! These are of a cool dude from the WA that blades pretty hard and knows how to respresent. Dustin is his name, and we hooked up for a photo shoot last Saturday in the drizzle/rain that we like to call liquid sunshine.

Here are a few I have to share with you:

Bank to 360 over the rail.



Bank to kind grind


Rough grind!

Outside Looking In

So on the last night of the Washington County Fair, I headed over after dark to get some shots of the rides. Little did I know that they stopped letting people in at 10pm, I arrived at 10:30pm. Slightly bummed and unable to find a hole big enough for me to slip through unnoticed, I just walked down the sidewalk and nabbed a few shots from there. I am happy with what I ended up with.

More at Flickr.

Colorful Explosions

Last month the family and I made the short trek down to Newberg to catch the fireworks show that they hold on the last saturday in July to close out the Old Days festival. We have been attending the show for the last four to five years with our church. This year was an interesting one becuase we had our dog Scotty with us. The reason why he was there is becuase we adopted another dog, whom we named Charlie, the same night.


This was Scotty's first fireworks show so he was quite freaked during the first few minutes of the show so I had to hold him down to prevent him from running off.

Once he settled down, I was able to free one had to take some shots of the fireworks. Suprisingly I was able to get quite a few shots while holding my camera in one hand and keeping Scotty at bay with the other.

Here are a few of the results.

More are available at Flickr.

Ugh!

getting the dreaded Err99 on the 40. This is the kind of thing that can bring you to your knees and beg God for redemption if you are attatched to your camera like i am. or rather throw it out the window. :-)

so at this point i have no idea what is causing the errors to occur. i thought that it maybe the 17-85mm but then i got the error tonight using my 50mm. i cleaned the lens contacts on the camera so i don't think that is the problem. the shutter seems to be operating fine. battery contacts and voltages are in check. memory cards are good.....

another thing i just tried is doing a complete reset of the camera by taking out both the main battery and the clock battery, no lens and no memory card and let the camera sit for ~20 min. let's hope this works. if it doesnt, then i may have to recheck the shutter....

blah!

i am managing to get some shots in between the rampant camera failures. i'll post some when i get my hands on the card reader....

Rally Cross Time!

I was invited to ride along in an amateur rally cross event today out at the Washington County fair grounds in Hillsboro. The driver I rode with, Tristan, has been into rally cross for several years now and was racing his red Eagle Talon that he picked up from a fellow racer. Normally, Tristan drives with his wife Sarah, but she is in her second trimester with their first child and had to understandably sit this one out.

The weather was great for the race but the sky was clear which left shooting conditions of harsh sun and dark shadows. My camera settings jumped around quite a bit depending on the time of day, position, and what I was trying to capture at any given moment.

I stuck to using my two zoom lenses which are the 17-85mm EF-S and an older 100-300 F5.6 L. I used these instead of my prime lenses (non zoom) so I could move around and shoot different turns in the course from one or two locations. The tail end of the course proved to be a real good spot for grabbing shots of the cars. The dust that was kicked up by the cars dissipated quickly and wasn't a real big issue as far as affecting my camera.

The Oregon Trail Rally which takes place in mid May will bring in several big name pros to compete at PIR and out at Hood River. I was at the event a year or two ago and it was quite the show. I would like to go again this year but the event conflicts with my work schedule so it probably won't happen. The next event at Hillsboro will take place on May 30th.

You can check the Oregon Rally Group website for more information.

Here are a few pics from the event that I have uploaded to my Flickr acct. These shots are straight from the camera. I have more shots that need some adjustments that I hope to post later. Until then, enjoy!

And the beat goes...

So I have been busy as of late with several things: working on the truck, managing the work/personal life balance, Jackson's 3rd birtday party, getting a new dog, and trying to squeeze in the occasional snap or two of the camera, and working on a new family budget with the wife. I have been taking a lot of pictures lately but I just haven't found the time to really check them out. I hope in the next week or so to be able to post something recent up here so stay tuned. I'm out!

quick post

Been a slacker after the rededication....so here are a few shots of the kids at indoor playground today taken with my recently purchased 85mm f1.8.

Rolling

Rolling better know as rollerblading or aggressive inline to those outside of the "sport" has been a passion of mine since I was fifteen. Granted I don't do it as often as I would like (which would be every day if given the opportunity) but it is something that I will forever enjoy. Here are a few shots from a couple of events that I attended this year. The indoor shot is from the annual Barn Burner competition held at Skate Barn skate park in Renton, Washington. The outdoor shot is from an annual get together of the local skaters that met up at my home town park in Forest Grove this past summer. As always, more on Flickr.

Family Vacation

We took a wonderful trip out to Lincoln City this past August and rented a house on Devil's Lake for a week. The weather was awesome for most of the time which granted us some good beach fun. The lake is quite large and I highly recommend renting a house there during the summer. You can fish, swim and rent boats for fairly cheap. We even went swimming in the ocean! Other activities included my constant battle with a fishing rod, Jacob progressing to walking full time, going bowling, visiting the aquarium at Newport. Here are a few images with more at Flickr.

More Summer Fun

The Godmother of our two boys, Sarah, invited us to a Pow Wow that was being held at Beaverton Highschool back in June. I was sick that day but was able to pull it together and ride down with the family. It was a lot of fun and I recommend attending one if you can. I mostly used my 50mm F1.8 but also used my 100-300mm F5.6L and was getting some suprising results. ISO ranged from 1600 to 3200. Here are a few shots with more on Flickr.

Berries Abound

Our first trip to Smith Berry Barn yielded some nice results. We picked several pounds of raspberries of various types and purchased some pre-picked blackberries. I think Jackson ate more of the berries he picked than what he put in the buckets. Jacob was attached to my back the whole time so that is why he is not in any of these pictures. There are a few more on Flickr.

4th of July 2009

Our family had a good time this year at the fireworks display in Banks, Oregon. Before the show there was a Life Flight heilicopter that had to make two trips and the kids got to see it take off and land. I took traditional shots of fireworks but had the idea to move the camera around during the long exposures and got some interesting results. Hope you like them!








You can find a few more on my Flickr page.

Hiatus

After establishing the blog I got lazy. I had the best of intentions of updating on a regular basis but was a little overwhelmed by the amount of photos that I wanted to post and didn't know where to begin. So I abandoned it.

Now I am rededicating myself and will be posting more images and grammar in the near future.

Jacob

This post is for Jacob, my second son. Jacob is cool. His personality is so different than his brother's it's almost like night and day. This shot was taken around his 6 month birthday. I tried to recreate the same backdrop setup that Stephanie put together when we did Jackson's 6 months pictures so we would be able to compare the two. The background is some type of microfiber cloth draped over our couch and on to the floor. Then there was this frilly netting stuff which I am sure there is a more accurate description for that was on the floor that Jacob was rolling around in. The picture has been edited just a bit by adjusting the brightness and contrast.

Jackson

My first born is Jackson Davis. He is really cool. He was born early Feb 2007 and the fun hasn't stopped. Here are a few pictures I grabbed of him while he was eating some fruit cocktail at our house earlier this year. Shots were taken with available light and are unedited.

Hello.

My first post on the new blog. I am branching out into the world of digital photographers with a Canon 40D and a few accessories that I have been able to collect along the way. My business name is of course Jermin Photography and I am still building my portfolio. I will be using this blog as a means to do just that. I mainly post to Flikr but will be sharing a select few here with information regarding the events around the shots.


To kick things off, here is a shot of my eldest son Jackson when we were at his Godparent's house one evening. Jackson loves to dance, pretend to play along to music with his guitar, and he also loves to pretend to sing. He will turn any object into a microphone at any moment if he so chooses. What's really funny is that he doesn't make any noise when he pretends to sing so the expressions alone are what make the event memorable. This picture is undedited and was taken using available light.