Welcome to the photo page of dubea.com. I’ve recently become the proud owner of a Nikon D-70 digital camera. It’s been a relearning experience, as I was heavily into photography while I was in college. In those days, I was a purist and used an Olympus OM-1 35 mm SLR. It was manual everything and I only had a couple of prime lenses.
My how things change. The D-70 is auto everything and has a 17-80 mm zoom lens. Auto focus, auto exposure, etc, etc, etc. Couple this with the added complexity of digital photography and we have quite the learning experience. Add into the mix the SB-800 TTL flash and 70-300 mm zoom I bought before Christmas and wow, information overload. I did buy a 50mm f1.8 prime with the zoom and the flash and it’s like going home. Everything becomes familiar again. Walk before you run dubea. Walk before you run.
In saying all that, these photos are particularly pedestrian. Nothing outstanding here. There isn’t anything here that’s going to astound you. This site is for me to learn. HTML, CSS, digital photography, etc. So please be kind.
This is from a trip I took to Annapolis on business. Here are some photos of the Severn River and surrounding countryside.
Maureen LeBlanc Gravesite DAR Commemoration.
Here are some photos I shot at Camp Salmen in Kiln, MS at the Boy Scout Fall Encampment.
We decided to take the new Canal Street streetcar from the beginning near City Park to the end of the line in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Here are a few of the images.
After getting Meghan settled in her room at Ole Miss (see Oxford trip), we drove to Memphis to see the Masters of the Medici exhibition at the Phoenix. After the exhibit, we walked around Beale Street a bit. Unfortunately, there isn’t much open in Memphis open on Sunday.
We traveled to Oxford, MS to get Meghan settled in her dorm at Ole Miss.
This is from a trip I took to Landover, MD to visit the office of Phoenix International. I was there to witness a test of the drilling equipment mounted on the back of their ROV, the Nereus II. Unfortunately, the hydraulic system on the ROV had water in it, so the test was postponed.
This is from a return trip I took to Landover, MD to visit the office of Phoenix International. I was there to witness a test of the drilling equipment mounted on the back of their ROV, the Nereus II. The tests went wonderfully, and a nice clean hole was drilled in the limestone in less than an hour.
This is the RM-300, a machine designed and built by Ocean Dynamics, Inc. to manipulate large cable spools. I helped OD rewrite the control software over the summer of 2004.
A few sunrise shots taken over Lake Pontchartrain.
Here are some pictures from my neighborhood, “The Woods” in Slidell, LA. These were taken during a brief respite from a several day long rain shower in August.