One year ago: February 2007

Once a month, I like to take a look back on photos I took a year ago. It helps me to understand how far (or not far) I’ve come in my quest to improve my photography skills. February 2007 was a decent month for photos. In fact, February was the month I discovered HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. Because of this, most of the photos you’ll see below are, in fact, HDR shots.

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9 February 2007

On February 9th, a bitterly cold night in DC, I traveled to the National Cathedral again, this time to get some night shots and try out my new HDR skills. Two of my favorites below:

More photos after the jump…

10 February 2007

On February 10th, I traveled down to Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia to try out this new HDR thing on the docks:

14 February 2007

On Valentine’s Day, it snowed a lot in the DC area so most of us ended up staying home from work. In the wee hours of the morning, I got this shot of a simple patio chair from inside my apartment. Again, in HDR. This shot is still one of my most “interesting” photos on Flickr:

After working from home for the day, I traveled up to Baltimore to see Wicked, the musical. But before the show, I walked around Baltimore and, again, took some shots that are still very popular in my Flickr stream:

The weekend of 23 February 2007

On the weekend of February 23rd, I traveled to Pittsburgh for my grandfather’s birthday and managed to get in some photowalking in my very photogenic hometown. And, no, the HDR fixation hadn’t worn off yet:

That’s it for February 2007! I hope you enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoyed taking them!

You can see all my photos from February 2007 here.

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