botanical gardens

today our class went to the botanical gardens in oklahoma city, oklahoma.  the gardens were beautiful so it was a pleasure taking photographs of such wonderful flowers that we do not see in our everyday lives.  these flowers had such amazing colors so none of the photos have been edited in any way, what you see is what i saw while there. enjoy!!

fort reno

as a class we visited fort reno in el reno, oklahoma on friday may 23, 2008.  this was not the most interesting place we have visited, but overall it was very hard for me to pick out only five photos to use on the blog so i choose to use six instead.  i really enjoyed the pictures i took here.

harn homestead

as a class we visited the harn homestead in oklahoma city, oklahoma on may 21, 2008.  it is located close to the state capital building.  there was not many things to see here, but overall i thought i took several pretty good pictures.  i even took the very top picture with my iphone just to see how it would turn out. pretty good, huh? all of the photos have been edited in the photoshop program on our computers to enhance the colors of the objects. hope you enjoy...

tractors

so i attended a tractor show in tuttle, oklahoma on friday, may 16, 2008.  all of the tractors were really neat.  i tried to only take pictures of those who were all rusty and yucky looking but this one really stuck out to me.  it is one of the oldest tractors there.  i sat down and talked with the owner and found out he bought the tractor in 1995 from a museum that was closing.  he still uses it at times and gets many invitations to attend these types of shows because of the rarity of these tractors today.  not many people still have this type of steam tractor that is still running today. he made the comment that the tractor and him were the oldest things there....... very neat!

this plate was on the side of the tractor

this was taken as he was coming to a park

he explained that the only way to stop this tractor is to put it in reverse

the actual fire that makes it run.

it is a combination of coal and water that allows this to work

a close up of the name "case" on the side

you can see all of the residue from the engine on the side

all of the smoke coming out after adding water to the fire.

Note: the pictures have not been touched other than made smaller in order to place them on the web.

New to blogging

Today I am creating my blog for the photography class I am taking at the University of Oklahoma. This is exciting but also challenging because I would like a good grade in the class.  I like being creative and different so I want my page and pictures to be very different from others in the class. I forgot my camera plug in at home so I cannot put my pictures up yet...So, this class I am taking is digital photography. It sounds really fun, I mean what can I say you take a class that teaches you to make a web page and learn more about taking photos.  That is great, we all know that taking photos is a big part of your college career so I want to learn as much as I can about this. I like photography so I want to learn all about it and how to make myself a better picture taker! We will see how it goes and how creative I can get but still keep my own style.