Cory's Photo Blog

Blanket

2009-09-23T18:20:00.001-07:00

blankie2
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

She put up with this for about 5 seconds.

Phil looking serious

2009-07-26T17:41:00.001-07:00

dynamicPhil
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

We went for a walk at Metro today after a short little rainstorm. The clouda were so cool looking. I snapped this when Phil wasn't looking and happened to get the seagull in the picture. Futzd around with it in photoshop a little bit. A few more shots from our walk are up at flickr, including some of a woodchuck Phil took! At least, we think it's a woodchuck.

Pinky

2009-06-22T12:52:00.001-07:00

pinky
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

Long time no post!! What can I say! It's hard to get out and about while pregnant, not mention all the moving we just finished doing.

Phil and I took a nice walk at Shadyside Park in Mt. Clemens yesterday, there's a great path that follows the canal there. The drains along the patch are hidden by very nice flower gardens. I'm not sure what this flower is, a morning glory perhaps?

Phil also got some great shots of a squirel chowing down in a raspberry bush if you head on over to my flickr page you can check them out. He's getting pretty good with the camera himself. :)

Gear

2009-02-21T18:00:00.001-08:00

gear
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

Okay so it's been awhile. But I'm trying!! My dad and I went to the Henry Ford Museum on President's day. Target was sponsoring a free day at the museum! It was SO CROWDED. I've never seen the museum so crowded. The village can get pretty busy, but it was so noisy and tons of kids running everywhere and they had a civil war era band playing, it was almost overwhelming.

This is a photo of part of the turbine that used to power the Ford motor plant. The industrial section was the least crowded so we spent some time there. It was fun trying to figure out how the machines work and what they were for without reading the discriptions. ^.^

why hallo thar

2009-01-12T17:40:00.001-08:00

why hallo thar
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

So it's been a while, but I have an excuse! I'm busy baking a baby in my tummy! Morning sickness = no photo taking. But I'm finally starting to feel a bit better. Phil thought it would be an excellent idea to take a hike at the beach in a snow storm. "Sure!" I said. I think I've lost my mind. We actually had a fun time despite a few frozen fingers. We hiked the shorter nature trail and ran into a few cross-country skiers, watched some kids playing hockey, and walked down a frozen creek. I was dissapointed we didn't see any deer. I figured we would see at least one now that it's winter and there's no foliage for them to hide behind.
We headed back to the nature center to warm up and lo and behold, five deer walked on up to get a snack. This one really cracked me up, she kept making that face at me. Head on over to my flickr page for more winter photos.

fall self portrait

2008-11-17T16:25:00.001-08:00

fall self
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

because Phil wanted something prettier

Happy Halloween!!

2008-10-31T13:09:00.001-07:00

happy halloween
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

Deer at Metro

2008-10-22T12:49:00.001-07:00

doe 2
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

I knew that there were deer at Metro Beach, but I had never actually seen them. I've been walking the nature trail off and on this summer working on my photography, but I was never there at the right time of day to see deer, not to mention I don't exactly walk quietly through the place. I was coming back up to the parking lot yesterday when I happened to spot this little doe just chilling off the path. At 3pm! She sat there patiently while I walked around snapping photos and I managed to get a decent one! She was still sitting there when I left. Someday I'll post something besides nature shots, I swear! Nature makes for a very patient subject so it's good to practice with. :)

Harrowing Winter Wheat

2008-10-12T21:02:00.001-07:00

harrowing winter wheat
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

Attempt at a panorama. This was cropped into this view and messed with the lvls a little bit in photoshop. Taken in sepia tone at the time.

I love Greenfield Village but it can be very hard to take photos without some tourist ending up in your shot. Nothing like Uncle Jimmy and his bermuda shorts ruining you photo. The far right of this photo showed a walkway with visitors walking on it. I'm trying to get better at cropping and following the rule of thirds. I think I'm getting better. At least I hope I am.

Oh! And check out my sister in laws website for some awesome nature photography www.hubinsky.com

No Swimming

2008-10-01T17:50:00.001-07:00

No Swimming
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

Phil and I headed to Metro Beach last weekend, or maybe it was two weeks ago, anyways, and had ourselves a nice walk.
Someone was doing a professional photoshoot in the lake with a model. Though I don't know who in their right mind would voluntarily get in that water.

Is there ever a lifeguard on duty there?

Bumblebee!

2008-09-19T13:07:00.001-07:00

bumblebee
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

It was a lovely day today so I headed on over to Metro Beach to wander the nature trails. There was a ton of wildlife out and about, most of which I got horrible photos of, like that muskrat thing that almost ran me over and that heron that was just too far away, but this little bumblebee didn't care that I was all in his face snapping away.

Taken with macro mode so I was VERY close to the bumblebee. ^.^

And to top it off, this shot includes a flower I had taken another photo of which looked great on the camera screen but was utter crap when I got it into photoshop at home, so redemption!!

Treasure Chest

2008-08-31T15:02:00.001-07:00

treasure chest
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

Ah, Renaissance Festival....so expensive, so dusty, so hot....damn I want to own that!!! I love this photo.....well mostly because I love the bodice, but it came out so clear and I love that you can see some other dresses in the back as well and SHOCKINGLY there isn't some white trash tourist standing in the shot!! I unfortunatly did not get the best part of the item in the image, the bottom of the bodice at the waist says "Uncharted Territory". Lol. As always, I am easily amused. A few more shots and some video of Ren Fest are up at Flickr.

Lomo

2008-08-17T20:37:00.001-07:00

field lomoized
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

This was a rather dull shot of a field at Stoney Creek Metro Park. But I decided to fool around with it and lomo-ized it. It's a fun effect and is stupid easy to do in digital processing.

Other great Stoney Creeks shots can be found at my flickr page. Some of them Phil took!

Matt and his Team

2008-07-28T11:14:00.001-07:00

Matt and his Team
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

This is cheating. :) This photo was taken sometime last year, looks like in the spring from the state of the field. This is Matt driving the manure wagon. The orginal photo was very washed out since everything was still dead and it was very overcast that day. I changed it to b&w in photoshop and decided to keep his jacket in color since it was a nice red.

fireworks3

2008-07-06T08:45:00.001-07:00

fireworks3
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

Phil and I spend the 4th of July at my parents house. Everyone seemed to enjoy the passable potato salad I made. ^.^
I had plenty of fun taking shots of the fireworks my dad and brother set off. It took a while to get the camera set to take night photos, long exposure time meant I missed alot of shots, but I still managed to grab some good ones. Head on over to the flickr set to see a few more firework shots and some shots Phil took of us being idiots with sparklers.

And to note this one also had no photoshopping done on it, just resized.

Maddox Farm House

2008-07-02T10:56:00.001-07:00

IMG_0767
Originally uploaded by Coryrain

Now that I finally decided what to do with this blog it's time to get started!
Phil's parents got us a fabulous digital camera for our wedding and I don't use it enough. Truthfully it has so many buttons and options I was terrfied I would just lock the damn thing up forever. But through trial and error I finally feel confident enough to start posting my images online. (it seriously took months before I stopped taking nothing but blurry photos!) So to start this off I give you the photo that took me the longest to take. This was taken at Motor Muster at Greenfield Village. Motor Muster is a massive car show with thousands of people visiting over the weekend. This photo took me ten minutes to take because people would NOT stop walking in front of me. Not to mention the Model-T's drive up and down that road and it was 90 outside that day. Yes please I enjoy standing in the blazing sun waiting for your butts to get the hell out of my way while I sweat to death.

Anyways, this was taken in sepia tone and not edited in anyway, just resized.
Many more photos from Motor Muster are up on my flickr site

I blaim Scott for this

2008-01-23T10:04:00.000-08:00

Cause you know I really needed another blog. Actually I had a livejournal account for about four years, but most of the people I blogged with there have moved onto myspace or blogger or have left the internet for good. Figured it couldn't hurt to test out a new service.