In Winter I Miss the Beach

    I once saw a framed quote that said "Because every picture has a story behind it." I completely agree with this quote and every photo I post will have the story behind it. The first photo I have put on this blog is definitely one of my favorites. It was taken in April 2012 on a private community beach in St. Augustine, Florida.

    I was on vacation in St. Augustine in a private condo my family had rented. The condo had its own section of private beach that you needed a pass code to get into, so only the others in the community could use it. This helped cut down on crowds on the beach allowing me to take hundreds of photos. One morning my mom and I went out to watch the sunset at 6:30 AM. It was a cool morning, probably about 50 degrees, and the tide was way out. While scoping the beach for shells we came upon a huge lump in the sand, so we dug it up and found this conch shell. However, the shell was still alive and had the snail like creature inside of it, and it is illegal in the state of Florida to take live conch shells from the beach. So instead of being a rebel and taking it anyway, I took this picture of the shell will the orange sun and purple sky behind it. Just posting this picture is making me miss the beach and the warm temperatures, as we are entering the heart of winter here, but still don't have any snow. I am a fan of winter, but without snow it seems to drag on endlessly. If you like these few photos and would like to see more, check back here regularly.
   
Some more of my beach photography:

Welcome to my Blog

     Welcome to my photography blog. The purpose of this blog is to get my photography out there more than it is, to teach people how I get the effects I may get in my photos, and also to provide people with the stories behind the pictures I take, instead of just letting them look at it, because I believe there is a story behind every picture.
      The camera I use to get the pictures I take is nothing special really, it's a Nikon Coolpix L105, a basic point and shoot camera with very few adjustments that can be made for the different shooting conditions. It gets the job done though, and very well at that. I hope to be getting a more "professional" camera very soon and make my pictures even better.
      I've been taking pictures as a hobby for about a year now, and I've really come to enjoy it. Photography can turn simple things like leaves and insects into fascinating objects depending on how the picture is taken.
     In this blog I will post a certain picture every week or so and either tell the story behind it,  tell how I got the idea for it, or how to get the certain type of picture I post. I will also show how to take different types of photos, how to take photos in different amounts of light and take pictures of moving objects. All of this to come in later posts. Also anything news worthy in the photography world will be posted here.  
     I hope to maybe make a career out of this, although it isn't likely, and use it to make a living doing something I actually like doing, not the normal 9-5 job. Even if I can't do that, I will continue to take photos and enjoy it for a long time to come as a hobby and just for fun.

Photo from http://blog.bamm.tv/2011/09/02/the-friday-list-five-crazy-music-photos/