Saturday, December 5, 2009

Huguenot cemetery in St. Augustine

This is one of the main cemeteries in St. Aguastine, its got some good stories to it and it a stop on most of the late night tours. Unfortunatly its not always open and I was unable to get inside, so everything is from behind the gate.

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This gate that is.....DUN DUN DUN!

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Please do not touch -or- disturb gravesites. Some nice looking stuff there, if I ever figure out this night photography stuff this would be a great place to try it out at. Get some long exposure shots with some of those sites.

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Another look at some of the neater objects here. I like the obelisk structure, it stands out quite abit though. Everything around it run down and just doesn't really compare to it, theres no real flow.

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I don't really remember anything about this shot other then taking it. I had to stand on my tippy toes and lean over a stone wall to do it. It wasn't the most fun, but I rather like how it turned out in the end.

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And Bam! Theres a extra fort shot, just cause. Enjoy it

Ripley's Belive it.....Belive it

Okay not the ghost pics, but flickr is being annoying so they will have to do for now. I will get the other on here soon enough, so just wait abit

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From Ripley's, you really had to see it straight on to get the proper effect but the camera made that....a issue. Still you get the idea, it merges your reflection with the skull and and adjust to make them look like there the same object. Pretty neat stuff

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Ooohhh its a Ghost! Or a projection made to look like a spirit. Honestly this has been here since I first went back in grade school. Its a dated effect but it still works well enough.

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Ah the Vampire Hunters kit, I keep one of these in every vehicle right next to the first aid kit and spare tire. Good to see it still intact at Riply's, it looks quite old.

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This was over Near Ripley's, might have actually be at there entrance. 2 of them, 1 on either side. They were kind of neat looking and were abit more apealing to me then the 3 story tall david sculpture. Something about nakedness of that size is just offputting

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Ahh Panda poo poo, who doesn't want a christmas gift made from exotic animal poop? They had stuff for elephants to, but they kind of suck as a animal.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Ghost Hunting

This is the first group of pictures from my ghost hunting trip I took to St Augustine for my birthday this year. Most of this batch don't actually pertain to said ghost hunting as there more sight seeing but I have alot more to put up later

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This was the house we stayed in while we were there. The Casablanca inn, it is suposedly haunted by a female spirit from back in the days of prohibition. She is seen from time to time on the 2nd floor balconies and rooftop with a lantern signaling the boats that it is okay for them to stop and make a shipment to her establishment. She used to run a illegal operation in that time period. This is actually why we stayed here, we even got a room on the 2nd floor with balcony acess though we never saw anything ourselfs.

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This was displayed in our room next to some books, it creeped me out. And you could see it sitting there at the foot of the bed while you slept. Did not like this one at all, something just off about it. Though the entire building was like that.

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This was the street outside of our building. It was always lit up regardless of the time. The place we stayed at was out of the way and surounded by all these neat little roads and places.

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Another little street, this is on the way to the ghost hunt. Though those pictures will be alittle later on. Probally in another post all together. I like all the old looking buildings though.

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This is where we begin our hunt, its a resteraunt with alittle store carved into the side of it. They gave us GPS's with all the hot spots programed in and they told us stories about the ghosts and history of the town as we went along. Pretty neat, and no groups so we could spend as much or as little time in each spot as we liked.

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I think this was from Flagler college, a small campus in town. They are home to a large number of Ghost sitings and reported paranormal activity. We were unable to go inside this time, but it was a very interesting looking school. They had spiked chains up instead of a fence. Tried to make it look ominous in this shot....

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This is from the ghost hunt, though its nothing really related to that. Figured I would go ahead and throw it up. Get used to the blur, its a constant. First time doing night shots, lets just say it wasn't my best stuff. Don't recall the name of this church, we actually passed it on the way to another landmark. But I wanted to try taking a stain glass shot.

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This was at the fort, we actually have about 30 to 40 shots of various lizards. Bobbie took this one, I think the flager one above to now that I think about it. She was calling them dragons and following them around. This one was almost posing for us. And yes it is out of place with every other shot in this post

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Any normal person would have started the fort pictures with this one, or maybe the one of the gate. But not me, thats not how I roll.

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BAM! Thats right I said BAM! Thats the fort gate when your crossing the bridge. Thats after you pay 15 dollars a person by the way. You can't get this far for free

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This doesn't look all that comfy to me.

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Wow those colors are so unrealistic! See that dark spot in the back, thats mold. I'll probally be dead in 3 months from ingesting it for aslong as I did. I like exagerating the detales in my shots. Its fun to me.

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Final shot for the night, its a cannon or something. Did they have Mortars back then? Thats honestly what it looks like to me. I just liked the designs on the thing, and the color was pretty cool to.

Well thats it for now, I have quite afew more photos but I have reached my monthly alotment from flickr. I'll be back on the 4th or 5th with anyluck with more once I get my account upgraded. Next time, Ghost hunting and plausable proof of paranormal phenomenons? Yes, yes there will be. Also I won't do it at 5am after being up all night so it may be coherent as well.

Monday, June 1, 2009

This is for the Iheartfaces entry



Catagory was pets, so I figured this was a good thing to put in.

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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Grit for prosperity

Alright trying something new out, all photos link back to there respective flickr pages. You can then look at various sizes of them while allowing me to set them as larger photos on the blog. Hopefully it works

Most of these are from a Rose Garden in melrose, it was pretty rundown and there wasn't alot of flowers there but I got some stuff I guess. Kinda funny Im useing a new camera which takes alot better shots then my last and I go with Grit and added noise in most of these shots. I used my better camera to make them look worse, because I preffered it for these.

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Friday, May 8, 2009

Finally close to being back up



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Okay, computer is set up again, finally. I got a desk and that really helped out on that end. So I can not work on photos again, however I am in the middle of upgrading my camera. I have a new one comeing and have promised my D40 to somebody so its not being used at the moment. I have a few things already done I can work on but for now im still somewhat dead in the water. Which brings me to my next post....it'll probally be pictures from the Tampa Aquarium, give me a few days. I'll be back

Oh, I set up the margins on the blog for a widescreen laptop, if somebody with a non widescreen monitor could tell me how it looks on there pc it would be much apreciated. Want to make sure im not makeing things to wide

Monday, April 20, 2009

Been awhile


So I moved, have yet to hook up my computer yet alone my internet so its been awhile since I did anything on here. So heres a quick sketch I did a few minutes ago to tide you over, enjoy it