Just two more images from the cyclocross race in Cary, NC, that I watched not too long ago:

I made those images during the start of one of the races. They are some experiments with longer shutter speeds, those pictures are straight out of the camera (except some adjustments to color and contrast). No fancy Photoshop effects, just movement of the camera during exposure.

Last weekend I had the opportunity to take pictures at a Cyclocross Race in Cary, North Carolina.

Great fun, even though we had some heavy rains during the afternoon – but that just makes for a more muddy course, which in turn again adds to the fun of photography!

Here is another picture from my visit as a sportsshooter at the Baseball Fall World Series in Chapel Hill last weekend:

Yesterday I spent the afternoon at the Baseball Fall World Series at UNC in Chapel Hill. Even though it was cloudy and chilly (for North Carolina), still a good opportunity to take some pictures:

One of my photographs has been accepted into NAP (“National Arts Program”) and is now on display in a Gallery in Duke Universities North Hospital:

The National Arts Program has been around for a while (since 1983), and it’s mission is to “identify, showcase, and reward the visual artistic talent in America”. I feel very honored to be involved with this program.

This picture, entitled “Blue Fence”, is a piece I created while traveling in the Ukraine last year. My wife was working in the Ukraine for a few months, and I had the great opportunity to visit her.

While travelling I was stranded in a very desolate place for a couple of hours, a place next to a highway with absolutely nothing to see or do. To add to the misery it was also raining, windy and cold. So I took my camera with the self-assigned project to make lemonade out of lemons and create one picture despite the hopeless environment.

I found this little piece of old fence with rain drops hanging from some old spider web, and in the end I was quite happy with the result of my little project.