This may be one of the last pictures I post for quite a while. Tomorrow morning I will be going into surgery (for my back), and It's going to leave me mostly bedridden for quite a bit (around 2 months). When i'm up for it, I plan on figuring out a way to shoot while mostly immobile and hopefully I can still keep updating as often as I do. For now I'm throwing out one of my favorite Chicago pics from the last time I went. Enjoy and thanks for all of the support! Be back as soon as possible :D.

Chicago Street

Train Station on the New River

Another Shot of the New River

I know, these recent shots don't run along with the norm of my photography, but I've been trying to expand my expertise in certain subjects. I love nature, but have never been that good at capturing it in photograph.

My favorite shot of the New River (The river that I and my friends white water rafted down). I dragged my camera up to an overlook and took some shots.

My favorite night shot so far, had to hold the shutter button down for around 6 minutes for this one (the minimum to show any sort of movement in the stars). The light on the tree is from a fire, the movement of the stars is from the orbit!

Just to clarify, I took multiple shots before this before discovering a method of bracing that actually works. It's usually easy to distinguish hand-shake from movement in picture, and if the other shots that were taken were posted it would be even more apparent (it took me a few tries before I perfected a way to brace the camera for such a long time without setting it up on my tripod). First off, the stars are moving in a circular motion, orbiting, all around a central star in the upper left corner of the picture. Secondly, no movement is shown in the tree other than changes in light (the light of the fire). I might blow this picture up and post it so people of higher resolution can tell the difference.