This is actually an ordinary ceiling fan.  I just looked up, took a picture at low shutter speed, and there it was.  It is very reminiscent of a UFO or something.

As you probably realized by now, I love black and white photography.  This is an example of why.  This is an image of a bay at Barnegat, NJ, converted to grayscale and edited to show more contrast.

The only reason this isn't part of my other New York project is because it is not in black and white.  I though of this as a perfect example of my mock-HDR process.  The vibrance of the colors, combined with the way the sunlight peeks through the buildings, makes it perfect for such a thing.

This was an old image I took one day playing frisbee with some of my friends.  I chose to play around extensively with GiMP, adding a huge flare in the middle and changing up the disk shape in the sky (it's the frisbee).  This, combined with the silhouette of my friend Eric and the selective inversing of color, makes it look like a UFO abduction.

This is the Barnegat Lighthouse in Barnegat, NJ.  I just made it into an HDR image to add some vibrance to the red paint, the water, and the sand.

Yet another example of black and white photography.  This one is of a beach in New Jersey.  I loved the way the jeep tracks and other objects added some natural lines to this piece.

Yet another New York piece.  This one was taken right in the middle of Broadway.  All the colorful billboards and clouds in the sky pretty much begged for an HDR.

Despite what many of you may think, this is not taken from a macro lens.  This was taken with an 18-55 AFS-Nikkor zoom lens.  I really wanted to bring attention to the broken shells on the beach floor, as well as each grain of sand.

This one is actually the same ceiling fan image you saw earlier, but with a few changes courtesy of the Magic Wand tool.  Some areas I inverted the color, others I added a fill color of my own.  This was all to add a certain psychadelic aspect to an existing piece.

This image was taken at Barnegat, NJ.  I took it at high shutter speed, just as the waves were crashing at the rocks.  There really is a lot of power in this piece.

I took this picture (or "pictures".  this is an HDR photo) at the break of dawn back home.  I just loved the red clouds, and how some stars were still visible even when the sun was already rising.

This actually started out as a project in my Arts Production class.  It is a simple framing exersize using an old photo of a moth resting on a concrete barrier.  I framed it in InDesign and added some text on top.  The idea was that you couldn't really see the moth very well, so I chose to have it say "They Can't See Me".

I saw this fence walking down the street in Long Beach Island (NJ), and I immediately fell in love with the lines.  I chose to make a black and white image to further emphasize the shapes and lines.

This was an experiment in implied motion.  I took a picture of a tree in low shutter speed, and while the aperture was in between closing and opening, I quickly zoomed out.  This gives a bit of "tunnel vision" to the piece.

Another HDR image taken at the crack of dawn.  This one, however, was given a painter's touch.  Notice the vapor trails of the planes flying overhead.  There is actually only one plane.  I just moved the camera slightly.

This image was taken right before a huge thunderstorm.  Despite what you may think, I actually didn't really do much in terms of color adjustment.  It was naturally this color (although it may have been slightly less vibrant).

This image was taken at the beach at Harvey Cedars, NJ.  You can probably see the construction machinery in the background.  That's what actually caused these tracks.  I chose to emphasize these lines.

Cartoons and paintings really tricked us into thinking that the ocean is blue, while in fact, it is clear.  It jsut reflects the blue in the sky, and when it flows on top of the algae in these rocks, it turns green.  This is the purpose of this image.