Carl Weaver Photography

I spent this past weekend in Harper’s Ferry, WV. Usually I am not particularly interested in photographing monuments and standing in line with the other tourists to photograph what someone decided was the best view of the town. However, I almost always travel with a camera.

You never know what you might find along the trail you know not. For instance, just this morning, my wife and I wandered into Beans in the Belfry, a lovely coffee shop and restaurant in Brunswick, MD that was built in an old church. Check out some of the photos I got of the place and the old stained glass.

We got good coffee, a great meal and just a bit of church this Sunday. So maybe the church part doesn’t count. However, I find it difficult to gaze upon stained glass and not feel something. I guess the church part counts after all.

If you are out that way, be sure to stop in. It’s a great place.

I know – my last post was all at f1.4. Why didn’t I use that setting this time? Honestly, I just got a wild hair and decided to mix it up a bit. What do you think? I took these while escaping the rain with my lovely wife a couple days ago at a new coffee shop in DC’s Chinatown neighborhood.

I recently got a new fast lens and wanted to play around with it and noticed that a number of people on Flickr were doing something similar – shooting at 50mm at f1.4. If f-stops confuse you, that’s okay; I have a handy dandy tutorial on them. The shallow depth of field allows for selective focus and as a result some really neat imagery.

I walked around the Georgetown part of Washington, DC a couple days ago on my lunch break and shot these. Let me know what you think.

I have been given an assignment to photograph the past high priests of the local Royal Arch chapter. It’s a particularly interesting assignment, as I get to meet a lot of the senior members of this esteemed order as I do so. Getting to hear stories of times gone by and names of others who have passed this way before me is quite inspiring. So far I have three done but more are on the way, slowly but surely.

If you have been paying attention, you know that I have been doing a lot of candy photography in the past many months for the National Confectioners Association. Here is a truffle brought back for me from a chocolate show by a wonderful coworker. It is a Lillie Belle Farms smoked blue cheese truffle with hazelnut bits on the outside. At least I think it was hazelnut. I can’t remember because it got eaten too quickly!

First clothed:

Then naked:

This lion was in front of the Art Institute of Chicago. The mid tones in concrete offer great texture against the overcast sky and made this a fun one to turn B&W.

Betty came by the studio to be part of my tattoo project. Click the photo to see her whole gallery.

I was assigned to do a composite photo that will be used for a Web banner. Rather, some portion of it will be used. It had to incorporate candy, chocolate and gum. What do you think?