A Night at the Ballgame

Spent last Friday evening at the local minor league ballpark, taking some photos of the Albuquerque Isotopes game, the stadium, and people at the park. I was trying out a 400mm f5.6 Canon lens that I was hoping to purchase from a co-worker (and since have).

Even in relatively low light, I managed several nice shots with this lens, along with my Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 and Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 zooms, which are nice fast zooms, although I have lens fever now that I've had one of Canon's USM lenses in my hands - very smooth, fast focus.

I plan on using this lens on an Idaho trip next weekend. We'll be up there visiting family and spending 5 days in the Driggs, Idaho/Grand Teton area. This lens will be great for some long reach when we various birds and wildlife.

On to the pictures, hope you enjoy!

A Morning in Bernalillo, NM

Here's some images from a few months back after we'd had breakfast at "The Range Cafe" in Bernalillo, NM. There's a lot of interesting subjects to photograph there, especially old buildings and I'm going to have to spend some more time out there. Both of these images are 3-shot HDR's taken with my Canon EOS 50D and Tamron 17-50mm zoom set on a tripod.

I've only posted a couple of these shots on Flickr but I'm in the process of setting up a professional gallery on SmugMug where prints can be ordered directly.

Very nice old Chevrolet pickup that sits in front of the Camino Real Antiques store on the south end of Bernalillo's main street. I don't think this ever moves so it may not be operable, but then again, maybe I just haven't noticed it changing positions.

Old garage that sits on the main drag about halfway through town. I had to shoot from the middle of the street to get just the angle I wanted on this building. Luckily, traffic was light and I was able to work from the tripod pretty quickly to get the shots I needed for the HDR.