Chris Hidey

Old Ellicott City

2008-04-06T14:39:00.000-07:00

"Downtown"

Not sure what this is
Some yellow church
Screw you straight lines

A Very Hidey Christmas

2007-12-27T19:36:00.000-08:00

Continuing in the tradition of the Hidey descendants gathering on Christmas evening, all gathered at Grammy's adjoined apartment...

The matriarch opening up her favorite Christmas gift

Looking confused

Grammy's new digs

Jeremy being himself

Adam checking himself out

Cousin "Brent"

Diva time

Dinner at Mamma Lucia

2007-12-27T19:17:00.000-08:00

The new one near Best Buy and Trader Joes off 108 and 175. Went there with Sam, J, Judy, and Julie.

Well, this is what we ate. Looks delicious doesnt it?

Stop moving so fast you guys. You are just so blurry. Unfortunately this is the only picture I took of you two.

By request of Judy. I wouldn't post it otherwise. Just kidding.

I think this is kind of cool, artsy-ish

National Cathedral

2007-12-23T19:14:00.000-08:00

Jim Baker and I went to the national cathedral in DC yesterday. We also ate really good Mexican food at the Cactus Cantina, which is right nearby, so if you are ever in the area, I recommend at least going there and getting the free tortilla chips (we got two baskets between the two of us).

I think this picture is very iconic

View from the outside (I know the branches are kind of distracting)

I learned that stained glass windows are hard to photograph

This statue creeps me out

View of the altar

Really random statue I think

New Camera!

2007-12-11T19:33:00.000-08:00

Well sort of. Got it about a month ago. Rebel XT and the 50 mm f/1.8

Fun with depth of field

View from Sharon's Apartment (Flatiron Building on the right)

Not sure what my fascination is with neon lights

Portrait of the artist as an old man

Well that's all for now. If it didn't take so long to upload pictures there might be more of them.

U of M Chapel

2007-10-13T11:10:00.001-07:00

I guess I was going for the artsy look with these photos

View from above
the chris hidey shot

Good lighting

2007-10-01T18:21:00.000-07:00

Church near Arundel Mills

Alternatively... not sure which one is better... but this one feels more hemmed in since the top of the steeple is cut off

More...

I like the angles... although the color seems weird to me

Venice

2007-09-29T11:24:00.000-07:00

It happened that we were there when some once-a-year race goes on through the canals of Venice. It was hard to get the shot lined up right though, because they were actually moving pretty fast, but still kind of a unique shot I think.

This is not what it looks like

2007-09-24T19:12:00.001-07:00

So you're probably thinking "Chris, that picture sucks." Well, I'll explain. So I was planning on doing some photography with Jim Baker yesterday. I show up at his house and we're basically wearing the exact same shirt (The one on the right. (Actually, the shirt belongs to Jeremy Hidey, but that is another story.) For the similar shirt, see Jim's blog.) But we're both thinking whatever, no big deal.

After attempting to shoot Lake Elkhorn, we go to Bertucci's, where Jon Green is our waiter (we both knew him in high school). After a while, I suddenly become very self-conscious that we're wearing the same shirt, and I just start uncontrollably laughing. Partly because I thought I saw some waitresses talking and looking over at us.

So the next time Jon comes over, Jim says "Jon, Chris is feeling really self-conscious about us wearing the same shirt. Do you think we look gay?"

And Jon says "Well, actually, my manager saw you guys and asked if you were, but I told him I know you and you're not, so don't worry about it"

.....can't two guys dress the same and have one of them pay for the other and not have everybody assume they're gay?? Next time we need to wear one of our other matching shirts.....

GG Bridge

2007-09-23T19:28:00.001-07:00

Taken in August 2006. As always, it is cloudy in San Francisco.

I havent updated in 9 days??

2007-09-19T19:12:00.000-07:00

Well here's one of the pictures I took in silver spring. I wanted to get something up. Oooh... neon lights

This pictures just kind of makes me laugh... and kind of creeps me out at the same time

Feel free to comment. I like comments...:-)

My attempts at people pictures

2007-09-10T17:20:00.001-07:00

Adam Hidey in action... although it looks like he's posing he was actually looking at something

Also my attempt at an action shot... kind of blurry but I wanted to see how the idea turned out...(thanks to Jeremy Hidey for the modeling)

Just For Fun
Well, ok, here's the right way

DC at Daybreak

2007-09-08T21:19:00.000-07:00

Jim Baker and I caught the 7 am Metro into DC. Strangely, the only pictures I am posting here are all kind of artsy and don't include the Washington Monument

Uh-oh, tilted horizon shot...

Waterfalls

2007-09-08T20:57:00.000-07:00

Coco Falls in El Yunque Rainforest.... also in Puerto Rico

Just thought I would mess with your mind a little bit... still the waterfall but if you look at it sideways it doesn't look quite right.... weird eh?
In case you can't tell, I like waterfalls. This is La Mina.
Drama! Don't worry, he doesn't jump... it's about two feet deep

Puerto Rico Mucho Mas

2007-09-08T20:44:00.000-07:00

Puerto Rico Mas

2007-09-08T11:36:00.000-07:00

More Puerto Rico

2007-09-06T10:16:00.000-07:00

Puerto Rico

2007-09-05T19:32:00.000-07:00

Old Ellicott City

2007-09-05T12:57:00.001-07:00

Les Penguines

2007-09-04T19:52:00.001-07:00

This picture was taken at the Biodome in Montreal, Quebec using the Sony Cybershot DSC-T5. Most pictures taken with this camera use the Automatic settings, so for the moment I am just working on composition.

First blog entry

2007-09-04T18:14:00.000-07:00

Ok, well this blog is going to be mostly for photography. Maybe I'll write personal thoughts too at some point. The goal is to post a picture a day, for now.