Sunset at Greensfelder Memorial

April 30, 2014 - This week has had some nice looking skies for most of the days. A quick photo run to Greensfelder Memorial shelter to capture the sunset resulted in this image today. An HDR created with 3 shots tone mapped together.

Greensfelder Memorial - Creve Coeur

Sunset Glory at Creve Coeur Lake

Another sunset at Creve Coeur Lake Park, where's the need to go far when you can do this in your backyard.

Sunset Glory at Creve Coeur Lake

Sunset Long Exposure at Creve Coeur Lake

Drama

Creve Coeur Panorama

2014 St. Louis Earth Day Festival - Photo Report

April 27, 2014 - St. Louis Earth Day Festival is an annual celebration of Earth Day, the largest among such festivities in the St. Louis area. The organizers point out that it now ranks as the 2nd largest Earth Day event in the nation! This year marked the 25th anniversary of this celebration. Festival goers enjoy a full day of local musical acts, live performers and engage in various eco-educational activities. Learn all about the organizers, their mission and community involvement on their website stlouisearthday.org.

The Muny grounds in Forest Park hosted the festival on a day which was forecasted to have severe storms. For the most part the weather held off for a beautiful overcast spring day, any outdoor photographers delight. The snarly skies and warnings buzzing on phones eventually did cause the organizers to close the festival early by 4:30 pm. Nothing really happened!! but I guess its safer to err on the side of caution. I was left a little bummed out with the performance I was really looking forward to being cancelled but still a fun day. Till next year!!

Sharing some of the photos captured at the event, if you like'em you can see more in the gallery here.

Joia World Percussion Ensemble: Engaging the child

Joia World Percussion Ensemble: Leading the all species parade

Joia World Percussion Ensemble: Leading the all species parade

Circus Flora: Had the young ones in peals of laughter.

The Pazazz Performers from St. Louis Academy of Dance put on an great show.

St. Louis Academy of Dance

St. Louis Academy of Dance

St. Louis Academy of Dance

St. Louis Academy of Dance

St. Louis Academy of Dance

St. Louis Academy of Dance

The Wings Over Water demonstration presented by World Bird Sanctuary and Missouri American Water was superb.

World Bird Sanctuary: Bald Eagle, check out the talons.

World Bird Sanctuary: Awww......owl.

World Bird Sanctuary: Great Horned Owl.. hates dogs.

World Bird Sanctuary: Bald Eagle

World Bird Sanctuary: Bald Eagle

Green Earth Girl: Kudos for the effort

Green Earth Girl

Spellbound

Jabula Drumming Circle

Peace Circle: Jabula Drumming Circle

Tandava Tribal: Hopefully next time we get to see the performance

Saxaphone Joy

Todd Mosby: Earth Songs, thanks for playing on.

Cosmic Chaos: The last shot

My favorite shot from the day, surprising how quickly things wound down. All it took is one strong wind gust and people scrambled. Mother earth has provided for every moment of our life in this ever evolving comic chaos. So lay down, relax, take a deep breath and think of the pillars of nature which make possible our existence on Earth.

Did you have a good time at the festival? Leave a comment below!

2014 Color Run 5K St. Louis - Photo Report

April 26, 2014  A day of contagious happiness is probably the best way describe it. I had the opportunity to witness and photograph the color run event in downtown St. Louis for the first time this past weekend. It's a 5K running event where participants run thru color stations along the course to get doused with different colors and there is a color party at the end to celebrate the accomplishment. More than a race it is a fun event for families and with over 14K participants it sure seems to be popular. I ran out of memory but the waves of happy people kept on going.

Here are some of the photos from the event, a few more can be seen in the gallery here.

Color me Happy

Swoosh

The expression says it all

Priceless

Selfie time

Arch shot done

Blitz

It tastes so good

Mythical Horse Man

Runaway Bride

Nice hair..wait a sec

Oh yeah

Like a boss

Energy Bomb

Made it

Getting your moneys worth

Cuteness Overload

Biggest Smile Ever

Num Num Num.. its good

See ya next year

Any favorites? Please leave comments below.