The Most Magical Place on Earth!

As I mentioned in a previous post I was able to spend a week in Disney World right after Christmas.  These are pretty simple shots and mostly of buildings with nice bright colors and blue skies.  I could not stop taking pictures of the architecture.  Every building was unique and each part of the park had different kinds of architecture.  I had so much fun in Disney riding rides and seeing shows and even more fun taking pictures.

On a side note, the only lens I took with me was the Nikon 35mm 1.8.  It is a FANTASTIC lens.  Its small, light, and just worked perfectly for almost everything I asked of it at Disney.  I am going to write a review with more pictures from the 35mm 1.8 so expect that early next week!  All of these shots were with the 35mm 1.8 so let me know what you think in the comments.

There is nothing here for scale but this thing was huge and looked just like Sam's guitar I have hanging in my office!

These are the story boards from the movie Tangled.  It was really cool to see how the Disney movies are made!

This was the coolest show, in my opinion, at Disney.  This was a movie set they built to show you how car chase scenes are filmed.  Here the "Hero" car is jumping over the river to safety from the "bad guy" cars.  These were highly modified cars powered by 1300cc motorcycle engines and they used all 1300cc's to try and tear all the wheels off of these cars.  It was awesome! 

This was in the Honey I Shrunk the Kids section of the park.  Giant Play-doh and of course I had to take a picture of the Giant roll of Kodak film.  

This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip but not my most favorite, I am saving that one for a later post.  This picture is just really simple and not necessarily of an interesting subject.  But as you know I love bright color and buildings and this just isn't the kind of architecture we see here in Columbia.  

 

Historic Oath

Today, January 12, 2011 Nikki Haley took the oath of office as South Carolina's first female governor.  It was an extremely windy and chilly morning as guests and spectators braved the icy conditions to welcome Haley and Lieutenant Governor Ken Ard into office.  Congratulations to Governor Nikki Haley and Lieutenant Governor Ken Ard.

The Singing Christmas Tree- Columbia, SC Event Photography

The Singing Christmas Tree was a very popular Christmas concert in Columbia that Shandon Baptist put on every year but it took a seven year break. They decided to bring it back in 2010 and performed for five sold out shows. Like I said yesterday, the lighting and cast were constantly changing and moving so I had to be on point the whole time. I really enjoyed the performance and taking these pictures. Hopefully next year all of you can make it to the show to enjoy in person!

Glorious- Columbia, SC Event Photography

Hey everyone,

I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years! We had a great Holiday and even went to Disney World for a week with my wife's family. It was my first time in Disney World and there were so many photo opportunities, it was awesome. Photos from that trip will be coming soon! Since I haven't blogged in awhile I have some pictures to share with you from Shandon Baptist Church's Christmas concerts...Glorious and The Singing Christmas Tree.

Today I'm putting up pictures from Glorious and tomorrow will be the pictures from Singing Christmas Tree. Both of these productions were tricky to take pictures of as the lighting was constantly changing and challenging my camera. Glorious was especially difficult with lights not only changing on the performers but they had lights pointing low and towards the crowd which made getting proper exposure very difficult. But the back lighting produced some great pictures of the performers.

I hope you guys enjoy these pictures as much as I did taking them. And if you didn't make it out to Shandon for this years Glorious Performance then I suggest you mark it on your calendar now for next December!