Carmen+Cannello-Beach

Carmen's Beach Therapy
 * Panama City Beach, FL still harbors dunes inbetween and around the giant hotels that have taken over this town. In the forground are grasses and sea oats that were waving in the wind, dancing as the clouds overhead changed continuously. The water in this picture, however, does not reveal the various shades of teal, blue, green, and all shades between that this region is famous for.

This picture was taken with the automatic setting. I tried other settings, but the results were not any better. Lighting seems to be a trick that I have not figured out with this camera yet. ||

no flash... nothing worked. But, hey, the seagull is pretty.
 * From our room on the fifth floor, we could see dozens of dragonflies around the trees below. When I took this picture, I intended to photograph the dragonflies. Per assignment instructions, I tried everything I could think of to capture the bugs on film... but no matter what I did all I could catch were the seagulls. I tried zooming in and out, changed the settings (ie. for people, auto, flash,

I think it's interesting that in MS Photo Editor, this photo is very clear and has a lot of detail that I did not expect. I was actually amazed that there wasn't any "movement" (or fuzziness) in the wings. ||


 * I took this photo from my fifth floor room, but this time I was trying to catch the seagulls and the ocean. The only technique I used was the zoom feature. The birds were moving so quickly that I just had to shoot and hope for the best. Well, this is the best picture I got out of all 3 days that I spent photographing the ocean and beach. When you look at this photo in it's original size, you can see the details of the gull's face and body. Except for nature photographs by professionals, I have never known anyone to get such detail from something in flight. You can imagine my excitement when I saw this seagull's face on my computer screen. This one photo has changed my mind about digital cameras. ||