Ron Montgomery Photo

Monday, September 22, 2008

Charleston Scottish Games 2008

The 37^th Scottish Games were held 20 September 2008 at Boone Hall Plantation. This is an event that anyone, not just Scottish, should attend. I had a blast and would recommend that you find out when the local games are in your region.

I spent about 5 hours at the games moving around from one event to another. If I had only one complaint is that the Clans had tents set up around the main field. This made it VERY difficult for the fans to get a clear view of the different games.

Below is but a few of the pictures that I took walking around. I ended up taking about 500 pictures throughout the day. Enjoy…

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Parade of Clans

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Bagpipes staging

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Bagpipes on parade

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Tossing the Caber

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Bagpipe team heading for competition

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Scottish wrestling for the kids

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Throwing the weight

(this is 59 lbs)

Till Next Time (TNT)

Ron

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

New URL

Hey all.

I finally bought the URL for Cane Bay Photography.

You can now access this blog from canebayphoto.com .
To contact me you can email me at ron@canebayphoto.com

I will put up a website at this URL in about a month. Then the blog will be linked off of the main site.

Thanks for hanging around and I will get more shots up soon.

Till Next Time (TNT)

Ron M

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Goofing with light

Spent the night waiting for the 'storm' called Hana to arrive. Once we got tired of trying to shot the rain I decided to play with a flash.

Used a Nikon D700 with the 24-70mm lens. The flash is a Vivitar 285H.

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Used a flashlight as the light source. Moved before turning off the light gives it that mystic look.

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Single Vivitar flash 'popped' twice.

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Same idea as above but 'popped' the flash 3 times. Once on the two of me and the third time to provide fill light on the branch above.

Till Next Time (TNT)

Ron M.

Tropical Storm HANNA

Tropical Storm HANNA has passed. Nothing bad happened. We were prepared, but the storm did not even give us a descent wind. No tree limbs came down. Only about 3 inches of rain.

Here are a few shots from last night. All shots taken with the Nikon D700 using the 24-70 f/2.8 lens.

Till Next Time (TNT)
Ron

Friday, August 29, 2008

Laura Ratcliffe

Last week when I went up to the two (2) Photowalks in DC, I stay at the Marriott. Next to the hotel was a historic maker for Laura Ratcliffe. The first day I only saw this maker.

Laura Ratcliffe historic marker.

As you can see, there are a lot of scrubs behind the maker. It was not until the next day while walking around with my camera the I saw more. Here is what I found as I walked into the scrubs.

Hope you liked these.

Till Next Time (TNT)

Ron M.

DC Photowalk on the Mall

Last Friday I participated in a PhotoWalk on the DC Mall. We started at the Lincoln Memorial and headed to the Capitol building starting at 6pm. Our Host was Shawn Duffy and was organized for Trevor Carpenter of Photowalking.org.

Here a few shots from the night. Enjoy!