I just added these three items to Etsy... and I woke up to a lovely surprise: I had some mini-cards featured in a new Treasury!  Go check it out, there are some really unique items in there :)

I almost didn't make this one, folks... I am so tired right now.

For this photo I laid down in the middle of the street and shot at ISO 3200.  I came back in and stacked five frames in photoshop to try to reduce some of the noise.  It didn't reduce the noise as much as I'd expected... I guess that's part of the learning process.... it was my first time stacking. 

I've noticed that I've had lots of really warm-toned images happening recently... some of that will probably change soon as we'll be heading to the mountains in Georgia for the weekend and hope to encounter some snow and bright blue skies.  I likely won't be posting until Tuesday since I won't be back until late Monday night.

50mm 1.4, f/2.0, 1/5sec, ISO 3200, no flash

I should really do this again sometime in the summer... I feel like every shot that doesn't happen on a weekend happens at night.  I guess it's good for me to practice at night, but it would be nice to have a little more daylight to work with.

Tonight I was downtown and took a photo looking down the alley to Ti Amo.  Those of you who know Gainesville and Ti Amo know that it is a wonderful place to eat and has a lovely wrought iron gate that they close every night at the entrance to this little alley.  

I shot through the gate to get this one.  I did soften it just a touch to enhance the mood of it, but the colors were not manipulated.

50mm 1.4, f/1.4, 1/25 sec, ISO 3200, no flash

Saturday we hung out at a coffee shop for part of the afternoon, so I took a quick shot of our paper.

50mm 1.4, f/1.4, 1/30sec, ISO 800, no flash

We went to Stubbie's and Stein's last night after work for some beer.  I had a Gavit Pils for those who are interested.  I used to be able to get Zlaty Bazant on tap there, but that's been off the rotating menu for a while.  So sad...  For the record, this is not my empty glass.  Those of you that know me well know that I am really bad at drinking a whole glass of beer.  So here's to Dan, my friend, co-worker, and loyal beer-finisher.  

50mm 1.4, f/1.4, 1/4sec, ISO 1600, no flash