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2011 Miss Allegan County and Miss Allegan County Outstanding Teen

Jim Fox — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:53:46 +0000

Since I was given the opportunity to do head shots for 2010′s Miss Allegan County I was asked to shoot the 2011 Miss Allegan County and Miss Allegan County Outstanding Teen Pagaent this past weekend. Fortunately I went to Friday’s rehearsal to scope out the venue some more cause on Friday they used the spot light for rehearsal and I was able to grab more pictures than at the actual pageant.. Unfortunately the lighting on stage was some of the worse lighting I’ve ever seen. Plus the decision was made to not use the spotlight for the actual pageant so my fighting chance at decent pictures without a flash were drastically reduced. Despite the lighting situation the show went off without any major hitches and two great young ladies were crowed Miss Allegan and Miss Allegan County Outstanding Teen for 2011.

Keisha Johnson was crowned Miss Allegan County 2011

Jessica Glessner was crowned Miss Allegan County Outstanding Teen 2011

Below are some of the other shots from the evening festivities.

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Red Barn Spectacular – WOW!

Jim Fox — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:28:55 +0000

Where was I at August 7th, 2010?….at the Red Barn Spectacular at the Gilmore Car Museum. Classic cars (and more recent as well) as far as the eye can see. Cars I’ve never even seen or heard of. Muscle cars that would make you teeth chatter. What is a guy with a camera to do? Shoot until you can’t move a muscle. A fellow car lover and photographer and I braved the masses at the 30th Annual Show. I don’t know the official count but the numbers on the entry forms posted in the cars were over 600 and that didn’t include the Judged cars. For 3 hours we walked amongst the magnificent steel beasts trying to find those details that make “THAT” car the car it is. From the tail lights of a 59 Caddy to the grill of a 1950′s GMC COE. Here are some of my favorites from this weekend. Hope you enjoy!

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Plainwell Middle School Track – Bulldog Invite

Jim Fox — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:41:47 +0000

Another one of those harsh sunlight days. Long jump on this field was tough shooting right into the sun.

Plainwell Middle School Track

Jim Fox — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:21:36 +0000

Why is it that all our track meets seem to be on sunny days? Is it too much to ask for an overcast day? When I am not shooting my daughter’s events I like to wander around and see what else I can capture. He are some images from Plainwell Middle Schools recent 3 team track meet; Plainwell, Gull Lake and South Haven. The rest of the images from that meet or from any other track meet this season, follow this link.

I spy the Moon……..oh wait is that dust on the lens?

Jim Fox — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:51:03 +0000

No, that’s Jupiter. It wasn’t until I was in looking at my photos on the screen that I realized there was a star up there too. So after some digging I found out it was Jupiter.

From Abrahm’s Planetarium Night Sky Notes:

Sunday, January 17, 2010
The thin crescent Moon is to the lower right of Jupiter. Look for the pair in the WSW at dusk. Jupiter is shining bright at -2nd magnitude. Neptune, at 8th magnitude, is to the lower left of the Moon, but requires a telescope to be seen.

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What a difference winter makes…

Jim Fox — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:13:49 +0000

I took this photo back on October 20th of Vandercook Hall on Western Michigan University’s campus. The array of colors is just awesome as well is the architecture of the building. It looks even better in print.

So now every time I drive by Vandercook Hall, I look over to see what is currently going on there, image wise that is. This last time I noticed that they don’t shovel the sidewalks giving it that freshly fallen snow look. I thought with the hibernating vines and snow it would make a nice black and white photo and a contrast in seasons photo.

Here is a color version of the winter image. ENJOY!

Brochure Pictures

Jim Fox — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:17:58 +0000

One of our suppliers always puts out a yearly request for pictures of our installs they can use in their brochures. This is one of my favorites pictures I grabbed and of course I had to play with it in Nik’s SilverEfex Pro. Unfortunately with the small images, you cannot see the lighted Christmas tree in this image. ENJOY

SilverEfex Pro Experiment

Jim Fox — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:20:32 +0000

Was looking thru some old pictures tonight and happened across some of my old lighthouse pictures. I had the thought of…..”I wonder what that would looking in Black and White?”. So off I went with several images into SilverEfex Pro 3.0. Of all the Nix Software applications this is one of my favorites. One of the built in presets is “Cyanotype”. Cyanotype was a popular process in the 20th century engineering world (Blueprints). Since this particular image was taken on a very cold February evening, I thought the blue cast gave the picture a cold feel. ENJOY!

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Plainwell Volleyball – Wolverine Conference Champions

Jim Fox — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:12:03 +0000

Yes, this is old news. Been a busy week on the home front and finally got the images processed. Enjoy!

Volleyball: Plainwell vs Otsego

Jim Fox — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:26:15 +0000

October 26 found Plainwell traveling to Otsego for a battle of the unbeatens. Plainwell made short work of the match winning 3-0 leaving them unbeaten headed to Paw Paw and then on to the Conference Tournament. Granted I didn’t start covering the Varsity Volleyballers until later in the season, you can see all the action I covered right HERE.