I photographed an alien!!

Here it is a few days after Halloween and I convinced the grandkids that secretly their grandmother was an alien. A few days ago I talked about a process known as High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. HDR is a process where you take three photos of an object and merge them into a single photo. This process creates a very detailed picture. Much more detailed than any one of the single photos. Well today I decided to play with this process on a flower arrangement the wife had on the counter. So while she was reading papers in the background at the kitchen table I was taking the photo. When I process the pictures using the HDR process you could see a blurred image of the wife with three arms. You see the process works if the objects are still. In this case the flower and vase was still but the wife was moving her arms in the background. So if you look closely you can see she has 3 limbs.

FA-14 Superhornet fly over the Detroit River

It was beautiful July day and I had wanted to go to Belle Isle to shoot the hydroplanes during the time trials and this was the last day to see them for free. Wanted to take the grandsons but they had their own plans so I threw my camera equipment in the saddlebag of my Harley and rode off to Belle Isle by myself. I didn’t have much time because I had plans for the evening so the intention was to go take some quick pictures and get back. When I arrived at Belle Isle the hydroplanes were in between heats and all the boats were out of the water. I waited for about an hour and when it didn’t seem that there was going to be another run soon I decided to leave. As I was coming to the bridge over the Detroit River I heard a roar in the sky and I quickly saw a jet streak across the river at tree top level. So I pulled over to see what was going on and was about to leave again when it streaked passed me a second time. Now I wondered if it would do it a third time so just to be ready I pulled out the camera. Sure enough a few minute later I could hear it in the distance and before I could ready the camera it had streaked pass me again. I thought I was going to miss this opportunity so I got ready. I could hear the jet off in the distance so I steadied myself but before I knew it the jet zoom past me before I could take the picture. Frustrated I hoped that I could at least capture one shoot but the jet snuck past two more time before finally capturing these 5 shots.