Through The Lens

Revived AND Moved

2008-11-01T19:36:00.000-04:00

I'm picking this photoblog back up but I have moved it to http://mshanee.blogspot.com/. Please update your readers to visit me at this new location.

Fave Family Photo

2008-11-01T14:53:00.001-04:00

Halloween 2008

2008-10-31T23:00:00.000-04:00

Trick Or Treat

2007-10-30T22:59:00.001-04:00

Respect My Authoriti!!

2007-10-29T12:57:00.000-04:00

OH MY GOD, DON'T KILL KENNY!!!

2007-10-28T13:04:00.000-04:00

Halloween Party Fun

2007-10-27T12:50:00.000-04:00

photo by Heidi Evans

Photo by Brandy Ketchum

Ozzy The Bat

2007-10-26T23:07:00.000-04:00

With it being the week of All Hallows Eve the next few posts will be in celebration of a great time of the year. We love Halloween in our house!!!

Bridge Risers At Night

2007-10-25T20:24:00.000-04:00

Another rainy day so here's another archive photo. The rain is really nice, we need it badly!

Digging In Ye Ole Archives

2007-10-24T20:09:00.001-04:00

It's actually been raining a lot the last couple of days and looks to continue. This shot is from a trip to the Greenbank Valley early this Spring.

Strawberry Fields Forever...

2007-10-23T22:01:00.001-04:00

OK, so they are not really strawberry fields but for some reason that's what I thought of when I saw these...

Reflections

2007-10-22T13:47:00.000-04:00

Abstractly yours,

2007-10-21T21:58:00.000-04:00

Capitol Fall

2007-10-20T07:33:00.000-04:00

Scraping The Sky

2007-10-19T20:05:00.000-04:00

Molly Sighting

2007-10-18T21:29:00.001-04:00

Yeagar Airport Runway Expansion

2007-10-17T10:18:00.001-04:00

If you've glanced at airport hill here in Charleston you've had to notice the deforestation being done around the hill for runway expansion. From the ground you can't really tell that much is being done but from the air you can see the part that has been built. I don't think the runway itself is any longer but they have the new "Grey Pit" at the end now. I believe this pit is like a runaway truck ramp, the airplanes will sink into this pit if they go off the end of the runway, preventing them from going over the mountain. This shot was from a recent commercial aerial photography job I did. The photos really aren't that great due to atmospheric conditions, it was really hazy under the clouds.

Future Fossil

2007-10-15T20:01:00.000-04:00

Ohio River Morning

2007-10-14T19:55:00.000-04:00

Produce Blogging.. In Salute!

2007-10-13T19:31:00.000-04:00

Rick Lee is the creator, as far as I know, of Produce Blogging which is a series on his photo blog "On Location With Rick Lee". He recently posted his 100th "Thursday Night Is Grocery Night, Produce Blog". This is to humbly pay homage to this outstanding series, check it out here.

Wine, Wine, Everywhere...

2007-10-12T20:14:00.000-04:00

Mystery Post

2007-10-11T20:15:00.001-04:00

What is this?

Earth and Sky

2007-10-10T11:46:00.001-04:00

Steel Meets Sky

2007-10-07T16:01:00.000-04:00

RGB

2007-10-06T15:18:00.001-04:00

Fill Er' Up...Bio Diesel Only Please!!

2007-10-06T14:55:00.000-04:00

Blue Vs. Red

2007-10-05T22:07:00.000-04:00

Cardinal Rose

2007-10-05T18:34:00.000-04:00

Layers

2007-10-04T17:22:00.000-04:00

Signs & Lines

2007-10-03T17:12:00.001-04:00

Light vs Dark

2007-10-03T17:10:00.000-04:00

Air Osh Kosh...BGosh

2007-10-02T20:26:00.001-04:00

Molly Cam

2007-10-01T17:26:00.000-04:00

Life Size Tonka Toys

2007-09-30T21:56:00.001-04:00

I've been doing some commercial photography shoots, this was one of the coolest ever. These shots are from Hardy County and the Corridor H Highway project. In the second photo the camera is at my eye level and I was standing on a pile of dirt and rubble about 1 foot high!! These trucks are very large!!

Evening Bridge

2007-09-29T21:19:00.000-04:00

Signs...Signs...Everywhere Signs

2007-09-29T21:16:00.000-04:00

Blue Skies & Clouds

2007-09-28T18:57:00.001-04:00

Semi Hub Cap Reflection, I really like the fence post on the right...

The railroad track shots were a lot of fun to get but, security did come out and run me off.

Red, Yellow & Blue

2007-09-27T18:21:00.000-04:00

I'm back!!!! It's been really tough keeping up with my blog so I think I have found the solution. The problem stems from having to have my digital SLRs with me all the time. They are big and bulky and not very friendly to travel with. So, I am hoping that my new FinePix A820 will allow me to start posting photos daily, or at least on most days. These are from the first batch of photos I took with it!

Sunday Bliss, Homemade Bread & Baby M

2007-09-03T15:43:00.000-04:00

Molly Update

2007-03-05T11:31:00.000-05:00

Black Beans and Applesauce???

Wedding Day

2006-12-18T18:08:00.000-05:00

Happy Holidays

2006-12-11T20:45:00.000-05:00

Purple Moon

2006-08-15T23:30:00.000-04:00

Kids In The Park I

2006-08-11T16:17:00.000-04:00

Big Red Flower

2006-08-10T23:46:00.000-04:00

This was a huge flower, the man who's yard it was in said it was a hibiscus (sp??)....

Misty Morning

2006-08-08T13:06:00.000-04:00

Heidi Vision

2006-08-06T02:28:00.000-04:00

Heidi goes on photo outings with me quite often lately and she photographed me taking photos on a recent outing, I did the cropping in these but the photos were by Heidi....

Farmscapes III

2006-08-05T00:07:00.000-04:00

All of my farmscapes have come from different days and locations. I've been doing a lot of photos of houses for homeowners property and have been in farm country quite a bit.

Farmscapes II

2006-08-04T00:23:00.000-04:00

Time Lapse

2006-08-03T23:29:00.000-04:00

These were taken over from around 6:30 AM until 6 PM. Some of the shadow detail got lost in translation to websize....

Two Emus and an Ostrich

2006-08-02T23:56:00.000-04:00

I'm pretty sure that Emus is the plural form of Emu....

Atmosphere Study

2006-08-01T10:08:00.000-04:00

What the camera saw during a long exposrue...
Closer to what my eyes see....
One of the biggest things I miss since my raft guide days is being able to see a clear view of the night sky. Now that I live in the city the sky is always hidden by a layer of light, air pollution, and on this particular night steamy humidity. All of these things block out the night sky. However, the orange glow is a pretty neat effect. The glow comes from the street lights along my road and when the shutter is left open for a long time we can see how it gets reflected up above the actual height of the lights themselves.

An Evening at UC

2006-07-30T20:52:00.000-04:00

Farmscapes

2006-07-29T16:21:00.000-04:00

Collapsed Building

2006-07-28T10:17:00.000-04:00

Flora

2006-07-27T19:49:00.000-04:00

What is this flower????
I don't know what kind of plant this is but the leaves are huge.....

Kamakaze Attack Puppy

2006-07-27T00:04:00.000-04:00

This little guy followed me everywhere, at full speed!!

Magic Island Sunset

2006-07-26T10:58:00.000-04:00

People Crossing

2006-07-25T00:52:00.000-04:00

I often wonder if deer have signs in the trees that warn of people? If they do then the deer that live near my house must not be able to read....

Hungry, Hungry, Hummingbirds

2006-07-25T00:42:00.000-04:00

There must have been 15 of these hummingbirds around these feeders in Clendenin, they were everywhere. The top photo is my favorite....

Ghost Drummer

2006-07-24T10:04:00.000-04:00

I went back to a friend's house where he plays the drums and this time I took a tripod and some gel filters for my flash. Got some really neat results.....

Spires and Monuments

2006-07-21T00:28:00.000-04:00

Both of these were taken on the same night....

Angel and a Lens Baby

2006-07-21T00:18:00.000-04:00

The Lensbaby is a fun lens...

Evening at the Cemetery

2006-07-20T21:28:00.000-04:00

This was our first trip to the Spring Hill Cemetery Park in Charleston...
Beautiful Sunset at Spring Hill Cemetery....
Spring Hill Cemetery is a cool park, it's huge! More from there later..

The Drummer

2006-07-19T23:13:00.000-04:00

Silver Lining

2006-07-16T00:43:00.000-04:00

Fishin'

2006-07-16T00:34:00.000-04:00

This kid reeled this one in just as I was passing by....

Come on Momma!

2006-07-16T00:03:00.000-04:00

Fun in the Country

2006-07-14T16:02:00.000-04:00

Nice puppy....

Ugly Sky, Beautiful Field

How'd You get out there?

Photoshop Fun

2006-07-12T11:37:00.000-04:00

Mother and Daughter

2006-07-08T19:35:00.000-04:00

Character Studies

2006-07-08T19:24:00.000-04:00

Studabaker Blogging

2006-06-25T17:48:00.000-04:00

I was out on a rainy Sunday for insurance photos and found this old restored Studabaker. I'm not into cars that much, but you just can't help but photograph the old cars. This was a cool car.

Molly Portraits

2006-06-21T22:03:00.000-04:00

Braxton County Hills

2006-06-15T18:33:00.000-04:00

"Indescribably Different"

2006-06-15T18:24:00.000-04:00

So my car broke down last week and being unable to find anyone who was home at the time I walked home. It was only a couple of miles, for a change, and it just happened to be lunchtime AND Skeenies just happened to be on the way home. I was lugging home about 15 pounds of cameras and lenses so I wouldn't have to leave them in the car and snapped this photo of the Skeenies Boy. Hear more about Skeenies on the WV Hot Dog Blog.

Stork Special Delivery

2006-06-07T22:13:00.000-04:00

This stork stayed outside my house from the day Molly was born until today. Guess he had another delivery or something? He was 7 feet tall!!

Molly Update

2006-05-31T17:55:00.000-04:00

Hey Everyone. We all came home from the hospital today and everyone is doing fine. We couldn't wait to get out of there and don't see how anyone is supposed to rest in a hospital. We're going to take a couple of days to ourselves to get adjusted and plan on having visitors and taking Molly out into the world to meet family over the weekend. Thanks again for all the support everyone has shown we really appreciate everyone being so great.

On another note, I promise not to make this a "Life of Molly" blog but she is definetly going to be a photography subject for years to come. I do plan on posting some more later on because we have a lot of family who can meet Molly on here so bear with me over the next couple of weeks with some of the beautiful baby photos and then I'll move on to some more routine kind of stuff. At least that's the plan. Thanks again everyone!!!

Molly Shayne, Cleaned up!

2006-05-30T22:50:00.000-04:00

OK, so here is Molly after a bath and 30 hours after being born. She's already got daddy wrapped!!!

Welcome Molly Shayne Evans!!!

2006-05-29T21:03:00.000-04:00

8 lbs 9 oz.....21 inches long....born on May 29, 2006 at 4:18 PM.

Thanks to everyone who helped out....

Mystery Post #1

2006-05-26T11:56:00.001-04:00

I've been reading On Location with Rick Lee for awhile now and he does these great "Mystery Image" Photos where everyone tries to guess what the picture is. Here, Here, and Here for examples of Rick's work.
Well, here is my first attempt...it's harder than what you might think to take a good mystery photo!

If you know what this is, post a comment.

Scenic WV Backroads

2006-05-21T14:36:00.000-04:00

These were taken a few days ago on a cloudy, rainy, and grey day. That's the cool part about WV, it's almost always beautiful around here. Just pick an old road, any old road, and you are going to find something that's beautiful..
I just liked the composition of this one...
PS: I've tried for a week to upload these with blogger and today is the first day it actually let me post the way I wanted too! Starting to wonder about blogger.

Cinco de Mayo, Power Style!!

2006-05-09T23:00:00.000-04:00

The WV Power actually won a shut out on Cinco de Mayo....
The Power celebrated the victory with fireworks...
It was a pretty impressive fireworks display, for a single A ball team, I have actually seen worse fireworks at the Regatta....

Mother to Be

2006-05-09T22:28:00.000-04:00

We're only weeks away to meeting Molly!!!!!!

Car Beads

2006-04-26T22:49:00.000-04:00

True to our hippie nature, these beads hang from our rearview mirror....
Sorry for not posting much, quite a bit going on right now. We're having a baby in about 4 weeks and have other family issues going on. More posts to come sooner than later, I hope!

Signs of Spring #5

2006-04-07T17:16:00.000-04:00

OK, I think it's safe to say Spring is here. These are a few flowers from around the State Capitol Grounds.

CAB4 and Happy Anniversary

2006-04-05T10:27:00.000-04:00

CAB4 is happening Friday, noon, at Rick Lee's Studio (311 Washington St. West).

Today is Rick Lee's Blog Anniversary, happy anniversary Rick!

Church and Sky

2006-04-02T22:57:00.000-04:00

Rick Lee should be familiar with this church. My wife works in the activity building of this church for Children's Therapy Clinic and it's where both my nephew, my brother and myself attended preschool. It's Bream Church on the West Side of Charleston.

Signs of Spring #4

2006-04-02T22:18:00.000-04:00

More Signs of Spring Here...Here...and here.

Birthday Brothers

2006-03-28T09:38:00.000-05:00

These are the best toddlers I know, one turned 3 and one turned 4, this was some of their birthday party...

Video games, can you imagine how good these guys are going to be with computers....

Having your birthday is hard work and requires cake!!......

Blogger Blues

2006-03-27T20:28:00.000-05:00

Well, I tried to post up this post with more images but Blogger wouldn't cooperate.

Happy Birthday

2006-03-27T20:08:00.000-05:00

I photographed a birthday party for kids, it was great, Spidey was there!!!

Signs of Spring #3

2006-03-26T12:17:00.000-05:00

This is actually from last weekend, the weather has been really ugly this week.

Country Shed

2006-03-23T14:13:00.000-05:00

I really liked the textures on this country shed....

Breaking News!!

2006-03-23T13:50:00.000-05:00

I was out on a job today and found this wreck on I-79 at the Elkview Exit. It was still pretty soon after the wreck evidently as EMS was still responding. I pulled off beside the exit ramp, they were closing the highway and rerouting eveyrone off and then right back on the Elkview exit, and acted like a news photographer for a couple of minutes. There was a news crew already on the scene. It looks like they were getting ready to start cutting the cab away with heavy equipment. On my return trip I notieced the ambulance had arrived as well as the tow truck. Hope the driver was OK, he appeared to be the only one involved.

Updates and Life

2006-03-23T10:04:00.000-05:00

Sorry it's been so long everyone, I can't believe I haven't done any updates in 10 days. That's almost like a month in blog years! I'm readjusting to my old routine and it's harder than I thought it would be to get back in the swing of things. Just catching up has taken a week!

Anyway, updates are coming soon. I'm not at the State Legislature anymore, the job ended and I'm back to running my photography and graphic design business. Expect regular updates again starting today.

When is the next CAB meeting?

Signs of Spring #2

2006-03-13T17:11:00.000-05:00

Here is even more evidence that Spring is on the way.
Compare the tulips here with this link from a couple of weeks ago...
Even the trees are getting in on Spring. The buds on the trees came up over night on Friday night. I left Friday evening and there were none and then Saturday morning they were there...
These tulips are really doing well...

Oh yeah, and here is what the weather was like just 4 weeks ago.....

Speaker Kiss and Me

2006-03-13T11:12:00.000-05:00

I don't usually do this but after taking over 70 photos of Speaker Kiss with varying people on the last night of session, I had to get in on the act. I had the clerk take this photo with me and the Speaker during his last Regular Session as Speaker of the House.

Rotunda TV Studio #2

2006-03-11T21:28:00.000-05:00

Here is the fully functional TV Studio.... Broadcasting live on local PBS Stations around WV.

Rainbow Capitol

2006-03-11T18:34:00.000-05:00

You will have to look close, but in the bottom left hand corner is the remnants of a rainbow that is fading fast. It took me less than two minutes to get from the basement to the roof walk in the west wing and it disappeared that fast...

I looked and looked but the only gold to be found was on the dome!