I have photographed crime scenes and death scene for years as a Deputy Sheriff in Glenn County. Photographing a crime scene is not a simple task. Learning to take a 1:1 photo of a tool mark on aluminum in bright sunlight or a boot print left in the dirt. You learn to make light work to your advantage to make details stand out. As a law enforcement officer, I could not wait until the light was better to take my photographs.
I recently started using my internet and social media experience to start a company, Orland Bulletin, promote local business. Photographs speak better than words, so I started taking pictures of the local events. Event photography is different from shooting pictures of dead people. I also started looking at the town I lived in and realized there is a lot of really cool thing here, but I needed to change my photography style and thinking. I started to look at what other people were doing. I got excited to take pictures as I studied the work of photographers like Trey Ratcliff, Colby Brown, Stephen Candler, Lisa Bettany and many others. I know look at things differently as I drive around an go to local events. Exciting!
Above is a photograph I shot just a couple days ago. The sky had a nice blue and the airliners had left it decorated with their contrails. The photograph is a six frame HDR taken from a county road that runs along the Atwood Ranch, a large horse ranch, near Orland California.
