The Red Rooster in Long Lake, Minnesota. My neighborhood bar for the past few years...

Just lying around... This is one of my favorites from a fun Senior shoot I did yesterday with Danielle.

DUSTDEVIL 35: A new book of my photos from Iraq

DUSTDEVIL 35 By Eric Bowen & John Camp by Eric Bowen | Make Your Own Book

Photo Advice Contest

The nice folks over at PetaPixel (http://www.petapixel.com) are running a photo advice contest (http://j.mp/ppsgmg).  Post the best photo advice you ever got and win a couple nice prizes!

Here was my entry:

"The most "interesting" photos the ones that show the world from a different perspective and open people's eye to the magic hiding in plain sight:
Shoot lying on the ground, shoot standing on a ladder, use a wide-angle, or a long telephoto, shoot at slow shutter speeds, shoot into the sun!
f8, 1/125s, 50mm is for tourists... "

Thanks to Layne Kennedy for the original inspiration!

Black & White saves the day! (aka: escape from white balance hell)

Sometimes you shoot a great image in horrible lighting conditions.  This photo includes an unwhitebalancable mix of indirect sunlight, florescent light, and incandescent light with all of the above bouncing off orange walls...

The solution: convert it to black & white!

Sometimes things don't go according to plan...

Stillwater, Minnesota is one of the most popular locations for weddings in the Minneapolis / St Paul area. And on this particular Saturday with 45 minutes between the ceremony and the reception to shoot the wedding party at a scenic location outdoors we ran into road blocks... literally!

All three classic Stillwater locations the bride and groom had chosen to shoot pictures at were already taken BY OTHER WEDDING PARTY'S shooting their own photos!

That left the flooded water front in front of the reception hall at the WaterStreet Inn as our last possible outdoor location...

This could have been BAD... a ruin the day sort of BAD... instead the wedding party rallied and made the most of what we had to work with.. and created more great memories of the FUN we had shooting pictures at the flooded band shell and on the BUSY lift bridge!

2011 Orono Alliance Scholarship Winners

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