The Utatan

So I belong to this photographer's group and contributed to their annual publication. I'm actually quite proud of the work here, though as usually there are so many people better than me. In the interest of marketing it, I might post again when people get back from Pennsic, but I didn't want to wait so here it is:

The Main page:http://www.utata.org/project/utatan/

The Personal Project page is my favorite contribution because it incorporates writing with the images, some of which you may have seen before. The writing was rewritten a few times so if you caught it on Flickr, where it was developed, it may have changed since then:

http://www.utata.org/project/uppp/item/570872812/

The portfolio page, with six of what I consider my most artistic images:

http://www.utata.org/project/upportfolio/item/510433450/

The portrait page which I contributed to because I feel weakest shooting people and wanted to make an effort to improve:

http://www.utata.org/project/upportrait/item/578820405/

My contributor page which has nine more images of mine, if you get this far.

http://www.utata.org/project/utatan/pantharos/

Sunbeams

Sunbeams, originally uploaded by Mike Palumbo.

Every once in a great while, the natural elements come together. For this to show up down the street from where I live, the humidity has to be high, the temperature has to be high, the rain has to have just stopped, and the sun has to have just come back out (at the proper time of day of course). AND it's only visible as you travel in one direction.

I traveled through it on my way home from work, ran into the house and got my camera and began to walk back to where I saw it. After I past where I knew it was, but didn't see it, I feared it was already gone. I turned around to go home and behold!

I started taking pictures. A couple of teenagers walking their dog came down this road toward me and asked what was I taking a picture of. I said turn around. They turned to look back up the road they just came down and their jaws dropped.