Here comes the Fog

It wasn't until after I moved into our house, that I realized how much fog our little area gets. Its very cool and yet eerie at the same time. If you stare into fog long enough, your mind will start to play tricks on you and make shapes of things that are not there.....Or are they? 

Cool pictures take time

Night time is becoming a fun time to shoot photos for me. I am really starting to love long exposure shots and the eerie type of magic they can bring to a photo. Tonight I stopped at a local small pond called Towne Lake. Enjoy!!!

Interdimensional Comm's

Many people with who'm I deal with, believe that using as simple as a recorder can let you interact with other dimensions out there. Whether this is true or not whose to say. Though during my travels into the paranormal, this recorder has been my trusty side kick. I have recorded some of the strangest conversations with the Sony ICD recorder. 

I decided to zoom while taking a photo giving my recorder a mystical look. Fun effect indeed!

I see a world that's out of focus

One of my favorite subjects, is horror movies. One of the things I noticed from watching so many is the use of blurred moments. It makes the scene much more intense than it would normally be in focus. Also film grain adds the mysterious mantra that something bad is about to happen. So here it is folks my Texas Horror Pose! :)

Sparktography

Tonight I wanted to try something fun and new. This is a form of light graffiti. I call it Sparktography. It is really fun and easy to do. The best thing it is relatively cheap to do as well. Who'd a thunk steel wool could do these wonders!!!

1 courthouse 2 outcomes

As I was driving home today, the skies were absolutely beautiful. So many colors going on at once. I was within a mile of home, when I decided to make that stop. Here is the out come. Both of these pictures are 9 shots with varying degrees of contrast and brightness. I used an HDR program to show how a few settings can change the entire mood of the photo.

Humpty Dumpty is back again

This creepy little guy was salvaged a few weeks ago. He was sooo creeeepy looking that I decided to keep him. He now over looks my lawn!

Looking Back

Tonight I was off to grab some food. As I was driving off I noticed a fire behind me glowing brightly. Allow me to interject myself now and explain that it was raining severely at this point. How this fire stayed burning so bright is beyond me. But it was a pretty awesome sight to see.

There Will be a day....

There will be a day when mankind will be forced to wear these daily. If you want to know the dangers that man has done to the earth, go to any big city and find where the run off from that city is. Chances are nothing grows there. 

After seeing this gas mask at a local flea market. It had the look and texture that is needed for HDR. The clouds were also perfect for some strange Ambiance. This is one of my new favorites!

Exploding Down the Highway.....

Like a slug from a .45......True Death...... 400 horsepower of maximum performance.

When it comes to cars, few things excite me more than Hot Rods and Rat Rods. I caught this guy riding the lighting in as he brought the thunder with him. This car was a shiny red glimmer when I first saw it. It wasn't long before I could hear the throaty gargle of  4 barrel Holly Caberator rumbling on. As he passed me I could feel the noise of the engine in my chest. It was if this car figured out how to pound each piston like a war drum on a path to destruction. This car "Ate Lightning and Shit Thunder" as they say.

I did everything in my power to snap this shot. I even sped up to momentarily stay ahead of him. Once the shot was taken he rumbled past me. As I saw this demon fading in to the distance ahead, I could smell the hot un-burned fuel. A mix that only those who have been around cars would understand.

To the Guy in the Screaming Bel Air this blog's for you!!!

When an Unstoppable force meets.....

An Immovable object. 

This is what happened tonight! It was my first self hosted Blog Talk Radio show. I invited Jeromy Jones of TPI (Texas Paranormal Investigations)and Paranologies. To co host with me. I gotta say it was exciting to have someone in the same direction that I am traveling to help me out. Also it was of no coincidence that I chose Dick Chavez as my first guest. He knows his stuff and is quite an entertaining guy to talk to. 

Tonights show covered lots of interesting ground. I gotta say it is like those old lame Heroin commercial would say. "There's no high like your first but you'll die trying!"

It Begins....

 

When I first started paranormal, I didn't think for a second things would surmise to the empire that we have made. One of the greatest feelings in the world is applying what I know of the unknown and helping people to the best of my ability. 

Fellow investigator Clay Coleman took on the greatest task ever and got stickers made for our team. We are in a process that blends scientifics,style, and individualism with the paranormal. The reason we made this logo is because every American is trained to acknowledge RED WHITE and BLUE. With that in mind our logo sticks out from the usual Black sticker with white lettering.

Today 3-15-2012 our stickers hit the streets. We are giving them away. Anywhere from grandmas to punk kids will receive these. This is the oldest form of marketing. Stickers make a Statement. Here is ours.

Bravo Paranormal is a team dedicated to asking the questions that are usually avoided by mainstreamists. We leave a location with not just evidence but even more questions. We do not fear the darkness or what lies within it. We will mix Parapsychology, with known and experimental technology to get one step closer to ripping open the veil that separates the living and the departed. 

We Are

Bravo Paranormal 

The Victorian Sepia

One of my favorite things is old rusty equipment. But every now and then you will see vintage items so meticulously placed on a night stand somewhere that it deserves to be photographed. When I saw this night stand it was just begging to be recreated in sepia.

DeRezzed

"The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer. Ships, motorcycles. With the circuits like freeways. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day... I got in."

This photo was inspired by one of my all time favorite movies "TRON" The original of course :)

Ultraviolet Hour

This is the time of the day when its about to get dark and all your whites are super bright. For photographers this is the magical hour where even the simplest of photos become dramatic masterpieces. I have been real interested in North Tx lately and decided to capture the sun setting in a few locations today. Enjoy!!!

A break in the clouds......

I had a few days off and really wanted to hit the streets. Though it seemed that fate had it in for me as Texas had some of the worst rain this year. I know its only march, but why the weekend I took a few days off. Today there was baby blue skies here in Texas and it hit me. Normally I would go out and take a few photos and be done. Because I was cooped up for a few days today I put in the extra effort to take plenty of photos and really enjoy what I was doing. Here are the best of what I took today! ENJOY :)

Goodbye Blue Sky

This is what I imagine every time I hear that song by Pink Floyd. This photo gives a small chance of hope during a oncoming storm.  I had been hoping for blue skies all day, finally got it right at dusk! 

Supertheory of Supereverything

In this pic I tried to recreate what I consider string thoughts. Imagine string theory, and its use in explaining everything from multiple dimensions to how you and I could have been thinking about each other at home then decided to call only to realize you were already there. Its the supertheory of supereverything. We are always trying to figure out how the world works, universe(s) work. Now imagine this. What if somehow I was able to document every thought I had in a single day? Chances are it would be extremely chaotic like a dust cloud full of excited electrons. I considered myself the Nucleus and my rampant thoughts surrounding me like excited electrons. I imagine it would look alot like this. Chances are you have once thought this before already, but what if on the off chance we thought this single moment at the exact same time. Now was that us individually thinking, or existing as 2 energies working as one in the same constantly evolving and expanding in a chaotic manner.

The Monolith of Mckinney

One of my favorite buildings in Mckinney, Tx is the old courthouse. I love architecture that shows what we can do as a species. This building used to be a lot higher and fancier in its day, as it was designed by a frenchman. Now it sits dead center in Downtown Mckinney. This photo is comprised of 12 photos overlayed on top of each other. This is another HDR method! Thanks all who read my blogs!!!

Still a Grasshopper

The more I use my camera, the more comfortable I become with experimenting. I just recently found out how to properly do HDR photogrphy. I have to say, the direction in which you can take a photo is endless. HDR or High Dynamic Range consists of mixing 3 or more photos that have different contrasts or brightness to them. You then mix and highlight the effect you want to keep. It makes your photos extremely significant. You can take a normal day and make it dark and dreary or high contrast blue sky. Below show 2 great examples of just that!

As long as I have a camera, I will forever be learning something new.

Subito Mortem

Sudden Death is the Title.

I was driving past this when I thought to grab my camera to snap a pic. One of the thoughts that crossed my mind was, how did this happen? It could literally been anything from a blown tire to an animal running across. Either way the way this accident looked in focus was, whoever left this earth tonight did so in the swiftest of manners. It sucks to see this because the first thought that always crosses your mind is "OMG i hope no one I know is in this!!!" Of course being human I think we made the bright lights to attract attention to the scene as well. We are all wired for violence, just some are afraid to admit it. 

Deuce Deuce

By the time most of you read this, my brother will have turned 22. He is the baby of the family and is treated as such haha. He such as myself loves Batman and comics. Its a dying art. This year they got him a Batman cake mask and balloons. Moments after this shot he literally blew out the candles with the party favor. He is one of the few that will stay young forever!!! Little brother this posts for you!

Will and his Fire Hammer!!!

So here I was in Grapevine, Tx about to pay rent. Come to find out I beat my landlord to his shop by a full hour. So I drove around the corner and ran smack dab into downtown. I grabbed my camera and started snapping pics.

During my journey I walk up to a blacksmith shop. Much to my surprise I could smell burning metal, someone is working!!! I thought to myself. I step in and a grim older man looks up at me and says hi. I spoke to him for a moment and much to my surprise he agreed to let me shoot some photos. 

After the initial shock of a total stranger with a camera wore off. He began to tell me his life story and how he got into blacksmithing. Will was an awesome guy who loves his shop being photographed. For 20 min I forgot why I even came to grapevine. He opened up so much that he told me to walk around the shop and take whatever photos I wanted. All in all this was one of the funnest photoshoots yet! Will this blogs for you!!!

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