I’m going pretty old school for ILTA’s EdTech 26 conference starting later this morning. I’ve already blogged my presentation and I even brought an actual camera and I’m uploading the shots to a Flickr album. I’m rocking it like it’s Norther Voice 2007.
I’ve had a Sony Mirrorless camera for a while now, but I was using it as my mounted desk camera because I’m an idiot. I switched up things in my office and got a more reasonable camera for all my video calls and podcasts. So, I finally liberated this beast to do what it was meant to do, take pictures in the wild. ILTA will be a practice-run of sorts, and my niece’s wedding next week back on Long Island will be the test.
Anyway, I’m including a couple of shots I took yesterday while walking around DCU’s campus and the surrounding neighborhood. It felt pretty awesome to do a photo walk. Tom Woodward would be proud. Hell, even the Canadians like D’Arcy and Cogdog might approve of this American’s latest decision. In fact, I’d been planning on bringing the camera to Long Island, but a recent post from D’Arcy on Mastodon wherein he busted out his 20 year old DSLR confirmed I was in the right head space 🙂
A few shots were better in my viewfinder than in reality, like the guy riding his bike in front of a bus seemed like a full on chase scene with the bus barreling down on him. Turns out he was very much in control, so much so he could still look askance at me taking his picture.
I liked this shot of the conference co-chairs and ILTA president doing a pre-conference huddle during setup:
While walking around the conference space I found a “rainbow bridge” with multi-colored windows that basically handed me a bunch of really fun shots. It was like photography for beginners and I loved it.
Look for more shots from “Cell Block E” for ILTA’s 25th.
GORGEOUS photos. Love the light and lines. I CAN DIG IT!
I knew that you could.
Gorgeous stuff, nice to see your eye in action. Whats the camera model? What lens? Do yourself a favor and get a low aperture lens so you can do those narrow depth of field shots and discover bokeh.
Bring back the photo walks, amongst my favorite times with both D’Arcy and Tom.
I am not even in the world of lenses yet. I have the stock lens—whatever that is. I’m just a dilletante compared to you all, but I forgot how fun it was.
Just like the good old days. I am a fan of the rainbow bridge series. The initial arbor photo is really nice as well.
I do miss the old photo walks. Maybe we can get everyone together again some day.
I’ve got an anthropology teacher who might get me to Berlin. That’s more than half way right?
If you are in Berlin, then we can do a photo walk there, I will definitely meet you. It’s a pretty awesome city from what I saw in my two short trips there. Just build in some extra time, hippie 🙂
Yeah, I like that first canopy shot with the trees, most of it was pretty basic—but super fun to have the camera out again. Took 1000+ shots in NYC last week, and will be sorting through those. I made the rule of having the camera with me at all times, and used a strap to wrap it around my should and arm given I was in NYC and wanted to avoid an easy theft for someone—it worked this time and I must have gotten at least a few good shots.
I also went back through the American Museum of the Moving Image that I visited in 2017, and I am interested to see if I took the same exact photos 9 years later. Chances are I did.