thinker

Texture is important. Without it here, this photo would be otherwise flat and dark. The light worked out nicely.

(ISO 800, f/5.6, 1/20s)

vanishing point

When I was in elementary school, we learned about vanishing points in art class. They came up again in high school when we learned how to do three-dimensional elevations of our designs in drafting class. I enjoy trying to capture them with my camera, but the lines often curve. With Lightroom, it's a one-click fix to correct barrel  distortion on my cheap kit lens and make shots like this look more polished. If only I'd been able to get on the other side of the glass here!
(ISO 800, f/7.1, 1/5s)

bass thumping

The night before the show, the bass player got karate chopped by her brother. She fell and broke her wrist. She was still able to pound on the strings & belt out the tunes. Tough fifth grader!
(ISO 1600, f/1.8, 1/20s)

skulls and bones

We toured the Catacombs. Not the most romantic excursion in Paris for sure, but it was mighty interesting. The Catacombs used to be a gypsum & limestone mine. When the plague struck Paris, they dug up all the cemeteries and interred the corpses in the mine. In moving them, some of the skeletons came apart, and they had no way of keeping track of which bones belonged to which body. They stacked the bones, mortared them in place, and walked away.
(ISO 1600, f/1.8, 1/25s)

a bit out of focus

Bokeh is the technical term for what the out-of-focus areas of a shot look like. With proper lighting, some crazy effects can take place. Yes, this is intentionally all bokeh and no sharply-focused foreground. For way more info than most will ever need, check this Zeiss article out.
(ISO 800, f/1.8, 1/30s)

votives

I have two shots of prayer votives from inside the church. By a slim margin, this was deemed the better of the two. Ma lit a few of them, in prayers of thanks I'm sure.
(ISO 1600, f/2.0, 1/640s, eV -0.33)