Photography & Blog by Adam Montoya

On New Years day I went on a walk with my brother Mark and nephew Brendon at the Jamestown Lake View Cemetery. The weather was warming up and a nice fog rolled in. It made for some ideal shooting conditions.

What made it strange is that my freaking batteries starting draining fast. Not cheapo batteries, but AA Sanyo Eneloops. Freshly charged ones at that. Now I have heard of battery drain before at haunted sites, but never at a peaceful burial ground. Go figure.

On July 4th 2010 we had man made fireworks.

Then on July 31st  Mother Nature struck back with some rumblings of her own.

All in all, July 2010 made for a great visual feast.  Lets see what August has to offer.

Decided to post a photograph, that i captured yesterday, to the PDML (Pentax Discuss Mailing List). I titled it Train Wreck of a Marriage. This photo was far from my best photo that I took this weekend, but the subject matter is what made the photo worth something in my eyes.  There had just been a wedding, and the participants decided to go out back on the train tracks for some photographs. Kind of cool I guess, but the issue is that these tracks are used on a daily basis. I don’t think this bodes well for their marriage. The signs are every where. Yes, the stop sign.

These are my other photos I took on Saturday.  All were taken with my new (to me) Pentax-F SMC 70-210 lens. In some of these photopgraphs, I was seeing how the lens handled being used into the sun.  All in all, i am quite happy with the results.

Curtain Call

Augenblick: a moment in time

44 Pentax Photographers

(Including me)

May 7 – June 12th @  the DANKHaus German American Cultural Center

If you’re in the Chicago area, drop by and take a look.