So Long And Thanks For All The Fish/Shoes

So.  This is it.
The 12th of this month marked the end of my 365 photo project.  I would have uploaded those last few pictures sooner, but my family was visiting...they only just left.  But now they are gone, giving me the chance to finish this thing.

I have a bunch of pictures.  Some of them are actually from after the 12th, but I assure you...I took a picture every single day from the 12th of March, 2011 to the 12th of March 2012.  It occupied much of my time, and drove me crazy at times.  But I rarely finish what I start.  So I'm impressed if nothing else.

I suppose I will keep this site running as a place to dump photo projects.  I have some ideas in mind.  But none of them are 365 days of daily photography.  That much I'm certain of.

So...here are the final photos.  I sure got around in those last few days...

just some Irish landscape

 Cliffs of Moher

 Leamanagh Castle

some limestone pushing through the earth in the Burren

O'Brien's Castle/Fort 

O'Brien's Castle/Fort from a different (better) angle - i love that mist 

Cliffs by the Dun Aengus Fort on Inis Mor 

Dun Aengus Fort on Inis Mor 

Dun Aengus Fort walls and village

Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge (apparently I was in a panoramic mood)

Coastline near the Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge

 and a long exposure at the Giant's Causeway (seems like a good final picture)

later, folks.

Ephrata Main Theatre...At Night

Another project for school, I was supposed to show that I know who to shoot long exposures.  Check.  Here is a building at night.  Without a long exposure, the neon light would be visible, but the building itself would be lost in the dark night sky.

The Theatre at Night

The neon lights add some interesting color to night lighting.  Normally it's just the harsh yellows that you get in shots like this.

Starting June With an Abstract Day

I went with my sister, her fiance, and my mother to buy a suit for my sister's wedding.  It is rare that I am not in the driver's seat, so I took the opportunity to try something that I've never had much of a chance to try before.  Long exposure time from a moving vehicle.  My end result looks much like an abstract painting I did about a year or so ago.

An Abstract View out of a Window

I only post processed the image slightly...basically, I just warmed up the colors.  I love the single thin stripe of orange under the thicker whitish/bluish line.

Near Infrared

I have a near infrared filter.  This allows me to take some interesting pictures in that I can use it as a neutral density filter or just by using it to get those other-worldly images due to the color.  Today I used it as a neutral density filter, getting nice soft water effects with slow aperture speeds.
I'm not going to get into the way it works or all that you can do with a near infrared filter, but look for an upcoming  post that does indeed get into all that.

Stream of Brick

This stream is missing much of what makes a stream a stream...water.  If I really wanted to show how a near infrared filter could be used like a neutral density filter, I would have waited for the water to rise.  The addition of bricks to a stream make up for the lack of water.

For Saturday, the 9th of April

Saturday was a good day.  We went hiking on a part of the Appalachian Trail that my wife and I only recently realized the awesomeness of.  The AT goes right through an area that was once a CCC camp, but also a POW camp for Germans and Japanese during WWII.  I did a post on this awhile ago, so sift through my posts if you want more info on this very interesting area.  We found some new stuff this time, such as a big cement star in the ground and a tiled floor (just in the middle of the woods) but more importantly, we found a bridge that had been carved into by someone while it was the POW camp.

POW Engraving

I created a composite image from a couple shots of this engraving on the side of a bridge.  I didn't want to use a wide angle and just crop everything else out because I didn't want sacrifice detail or quality.

My Attempt to Decipher

Much of this makes sense.  The date was May 25, 1945.  The engraver was Lt. Momberg.  The area that this was found in was, at the time, a POW camp for German and Japanese soldiers.  But much of this does not make sense...at least not to me.  I don't know if Treu(g)or(y) Ovenccl is the rest of his name or something else entirely.  The 35 and 07 mean nothing to me.  And the part in the bottom right seems to have parts that faded away.  I know that Kassel is a town in Germany and that Alt(e) would insinuate age.  So perhaps he was born in Kassel and was 56 at the time of the engraving.  The part between alte and 56 is the hard part, so I'm not sure if it is listing an age or if the word is actually altemeter/altemeiter, which is the altitude guage on a plane.  Another possibility is Alte Meister which, oddly enough, is in Kassel, Germany.  That would seem to make the most sense.  But Alte Meister is an art museum (from what I can tell).  Why that would be engraved with the rest of this information makes little to no sense to me.  

Fountains of Slag

I can't go to this place without taking pictures of slag.  I find it to be fascinating and beautiful.  No wonder it was used as a decoration on this fountain.

Slag

See!  I can't even limit it to one photo of slag.  I love this stuff.

 

A Phoenix From the Ashes

Our fire was going out.  Only a few glowing embers were remaining, so I attempted some long exposure shots with added motion to make tiny embers become something much bigger.

Long Exposure of a Brother

The night sky was a cloudy one.  There was no hope for star-gazing, so my brother and I did some long exposure shots.  No matter what you attempt, they always come out as bad attempts at dramatic, dark images.  Here is my brother looking...well, dramatic and dark.