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KaRock's Chicken

It's unfortunate that many times, when I'm traveling through towns and photographing various places, the restaurants are closed. These little local joints usually have pretty good food, and I hate that I might be missing out on some of them. KaRock's looks like a good place with a variety of food choices. I'm sure it's healthy food too right?

Moving Sky - Laurel

If you go back and read my early blog posts on this site (it's been almost a year now, by the way) you will see that I don't have expensive eqipment. In fact I have not even invested $1000 in my camera and lenses combined. I am a firm believer that you can get as much out of "lesser" equipment if you use it right. Having said that, another thing that has helped me in my photography journey is my ability to use Photoshop well. I have been using Photoshop since around 2000 being a Graphic Designer student and also working professionally as one since college, so I have learned lots of tips and tricks that are helpful in photography. With Photoshops vast tools and uses I am continuing to learn new things even today.

So why am I telling you these things? Because of this photo. I have been wanting to capture some long exposure shots, but the equipment that I have is not very condusive to long exposure photography, so my solution was to create my own long exposure shots after the fact. My first example of that was in this photo of downtown Columbus. Using my photoshop skills I carefully made the sky to look like moving clouds. I won't go into detail about exactly how I did it, but hopefully in the near future I can make a video tutorial of the process. Like I said, it's all in how you use what you have.

And, by the way, I love downtown Laurel.

First National Bank - Laurel

Laurel has a great downtown full of nice architecture. Most Mississippi downtowns have an old bank building (sometimes not used as banks anymore) and they always look so sturdily built and secure with thick concrete and ornate columns and trim. I love new buildings too, don't get me wrong, but this type of architecture just looks so well crafted and unique.

Arabian Theater - Laurel

I thought this was nice scene in this courtyard area entrance to the theater. I would love to see the inside.