I made a series of images focusing on the Warbirds and vintage aircraft parked on the grounds of the 2010 EAA Airventure, at KOSH, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Going in I wanted to get a vintage look matching the aircraft, so I used a swing shift lens. Then in post, I originally was going to use a custom sepia finish, but the aluminum of the aircraft led me towards blues and greens. Workflow was Lightroom, Color EFX and After Effects. ]]> http://www.adamsenatori.com/travel/eaa-airventure/feed/ 0 http://www.adamsenatori.com/stills/2010-tour-de-france/ http://www.adamsenatori.com/stills/2010-tour-de-france/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:56:59 +0000 Adam http://www.adamsenatori.com/?p=203

I like using any available device or method to capture images. Frequent visitors to my site know I use a variety of cell phone cameras, odd film cameras and other means to capture an image. The other day I remembered I have a camera built into to my very own computer… on MAC OS X it’s CMD SHIFT 4. That brings up a nifty crosshair enabling users to make an image of any portion of the screen. I figured I may as well make some images of my favorite topic, wait for it… cycling. I have been streaming the Tour de France and made some images of my favorite scenes including the Col de Tourmalet and the Stage 19 time trial from Bordeaux to Pauillac. Brought them into Photoshop for some post work. Enjoy.

Short film, “PLANE”, July 19, 2010.

High resolution Southwest 737 at altitude, made for the iphone and iphone 4. Click any image to download to your hard drive. I captured this plane above Portland, Oregon. Sky and contrails were made using CGI. Enjoy.

From the yardage book, “Arcadis Bluffs Golf Club was founded in 1999 in Arcadia, Michigan. The course is built on the bluffs above the shore of Lake Michigan and sits on approximately 245 windswept acres of lakefront property. The course drops 225 feet from its highest point down to the bluff, 180 feet above sea level and has 3,100 feet of Lake Michigan shore frontage.

The golf course was designed to resemble a seaside Irish links, with rolling terrain and windswept natural fescues throughout. Players will be reminded of their favorite holes at Lahinch and Ballybunion, while enjoying breathtaking views of Lake Michigan from all points on the majestic layout. A Warren Henderson/ Rick Smith design, Arcadia Bluffs offers players a golfing experience unlike anything in the United States.”

No. 1 tee par 5 459 yds

No. 1 short approach

No. 1 green side bunker

No. 1 green

No. 2 Tee

No. 2 green

No. 3 tee

No. 3 fairway bunker

No. 3 fairway

No.3 green

No.4 Tee Par 4 311 yds

No. 4 mid fairway, edge of green on far right.

No. 4 approach

No. 4 green

No. 5 tee Par 5 557 yds

No. 5 tee sign

No. 5 fairway, green near trees.

No. 5 long approach

No. 5 green from fairway

No. 5 green from side

No. 6 tee Par 3 149 yds

No. 6 green

No. 6 green from side

No. 7 tee par 4 409 yds

No. 7 fairway and clubhouse

No. 7 short approach and green

No. 7 green looking towards tee

No. 8 tee Par 4 353 yds

No. 8 green from side

No. 9 tee

No. 9 tee par 3 162 yds

No. 9 Clubhouse from tee box

No. 9 green

No. 9 green

No. 10 tee par 4 399 yds

No. 10 fairway

No. 10 fairway/ approach

No. 10 green side bunker

No. 10 green

No. 11 tee par 5 563 yds

No. 11 approach and green

No. 11 looking back from green

No. 12 path to men's tees

No. 12 looking left off tee box, Lake Michigan.

No. 12 par 4 378 yds

No. 12 tee

No. 12 fairway

No. 12 green side bunker.

No. 12 green

No. 13 tee par 3 160 yds

No. 13 green side view

No. 13 green viewed from front.

No. 14 tee par 4 340 yds

No. 14 fairway

No. 14 green

No. 15 par 5 464 yds

No. 15 green bunker

No. 15 green bunker

No. 16 tee par 4 441 yds

No. 16 approach and green

No. 17 tee par 3 150 yds

No. 17 tee

No. 17

No. 18 tee par 4 375

No. 18 fairway

No. 18 green

Not again. Yep. I recently overhauled my website. Bottom up. For those keeping track, this is my third major overhaul in as many years. Let’s call this 3.0. My last site (2.0) featured horizontal scrolling which was different unique. Certainly not used much. Confused some I’m sure. It also had a very basic menu structure. I deployed 2.0 in March 2009. Prior to that was 1.0, which was 100% Flash. I spent considerable cash developing that site but 86ed that after finally coming to the realization that Flash is just plain terrible to SEO or manage reasonably. So moving from Flash to a nice, standards compliant HTML site (2.0) was refreshing. Not to mention my SEO climbed from obscurity to somewhat respectable in short order.

Two factors prompted the current version, 3.0. I was tired of maintaining four different websites, my main site, a stock site, a print site and a blog. All with completely different logins, front-ends, back-ends, styles and subscription cycles. I became increasingly interested in utilizing the WordPress CMS to construct an entire site. So I basically created a theme from scratch that pushes the typical WP blog to the back and uses the CMS to power my home page and portfolio. I built the custom theme on a grid system making future expansion painless.

The second factor was retaining visitors. Analytics showed that visitors were in and out, time on site was down, bounce rates were about 55%. No good. I built 2.0 to be efficient, I wanted busy creatives to be able to get in and get out fast, which it appears they were. It was too efficient. 3.0 offers some more meat on the bone.

There were casualties of course. I completely dumped my Blogger blog and all of its tidings. After much research, I decided there was no way to “port” all of the posts, comments and assets from Blogger to the WP platform, without major headaches and the prospect of being dropped from Google for double posting. So, if you didn’t read my shit there, tough. You missed out. All those posts bye bye.

Also, my stock site, which was run on Photoshelter proved is be to much of a hassle to keep going, much less try and shoehorn into WP with success. Not entirely sure how I am going to proceed with my stock library. I am thinking about building a database and doing it myself.

If anyone needs some resources on building a custom theme over the WP CMS, drop me a line. I’ve got plenty bookmarked on the toolbar.

Black Earth Creek postcard. Made this quick image while I was fly fishing the Black Earth Creek near Cross Plains, Wisconsin.

The odometer on my 2010 Nike Pegasus 26 running shoes passed 500 mi the other day. I usually get new shoes after 400, but put on another 100 since they were holding up well. Enter the Pegasus 27. Side by sides.