Corey Brown Photography

For today's photo I chose one of our oldest daughter, Bella. This was taken on the boat dock at 3 Bridges County Park in Marshall County Iowa.

I had to go to the Chicago area for the weekend. One of the Jobs I went up for was a Photograph of the City Skyline. The Photograph is going to be used as a panoramic for a Sub City. The End product is going to be around 14 feet long be 30 inches tall.


This is just a sample shot that I took.
I got some good advice from a friend to take the photos from the Adler Planetarium.
So that is what I paned on and from



What you can see I had a really good turn out.



For the Panoramic I am taking aver 20 photos and blending them together to create a very High resolution single image that should have a close viewing distance as well as huge.
This is a small sample of the finished product but is less then 1% of the actual size of the finished picture.


Thank you for taking the time and if you have any Questions or comments just please use the comments, I will try to answer them all here.
Thanks and God Bless
Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)

Well Just because I have not posted anything does not mean that I have not been doing anything.
I have been very busy and trying to get free time to shoot for my self let alone follow through and get every thing up loaded and then post about it. I have been taking a lot of pictures and and staying very busy. Both with regular clients and the family, who would have thought that only one more child could add that much more work. I have been busy enough taking photos that I have almost filled 3 750 GB hard drives and a 500 GB as well. Here is a photo that I really like how it turned out.


(click on photo for a larger view and to go to the gallery)
I took this photo while teaching a workshop here in Iowa and it is one of those scenes that was not intended but just happened.
The goal was

Get up early and be set up lake side by 6:30 A.M. to teach how to take a sunrise photo. However when we got up it was nothing but fog so the lesson plan changed from sunrise over the lake to fog on the lake. This particular photograph was taken at F 9 1/50 s at ISO 100. All in all it was a very productive morning with many great photographic opportunities with many great photographs captured.

Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)

Just a quick one today every one from the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines Iowa. The Sea Horse Prance
Enjoy and God Bless
Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)

I think here in the Mid West is one of the best places to photograph geese.



I particularly like Marshalltown and Tama Iowa for quick easy access areas where the birds are wild enough


that they do not look tame on film. As well as use to people enough that you can get close enough to get a reasonable photo at times. The two love birds above got a little uncomfortable with my prescence so they decided to fly out to the Ice shelf giving me the opportunity I was waiting for.
Enjoy and God Bless,

Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)

This photo was taken on the Iowa River of of HWY 63 on the south side of Tama Iowa.



This is one of those photos that is familiar to you if you look at many photos. Granted that is not what I usually want to go for in my photography. However, in this case it is a photo that I never tire of. I will do a little write up about photography in the snow here soon so I will cover this photograph and others like it.
Thanks for reading and God Bless
Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)

Last week a friend of mine & I went to Lake Red Rock in Pella Iowa to try and Photograph eagles. Usually Lake Red Rock is a Very popular place for many birds this time of year. However This particular day there were no eagles to be found anywhere. The wind had came in on our way down from Grinnell and was blowing at 30+ mph with gusts of 45mph. However the birding was not a complete loss from across the river south of the damn some birds spotted us.

And came over to visit. So we proceed to try and take photos in such high




Winds. As you can probably tell from the water in these photos that it was very windy.

After coming across the river it did not take long for them to come on up and check things out. I do not know the particular breed of these birds They have some similar markings of a white-fronted goose however they do not seem to have enough black on their breasts and their bills look different.

After coming a shore they started looking for food. Since this is a public park area it is not unusual for people to feed the birds. However something a little unusual happened a pair found a piece of bread and stood side by side taking turns eating the bread. They did not honk charge or show any aggressive behavior to one another. I found this very intriguing.


After a few minuets of searching for food and successfully clearing the area they started to do their normal cleaning. It was not long before they were comfortable enough with us that they were almost posing.


The sun came out just enough for a nice back lighting making some very nice portraits.
All in all not bad for 30+ mph winds and what was beginning to look like a bust for shooting.
If you would like to see more photos and larger then the above you can check them out HERE.
Thanks and God Bless,
Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)

On a recent mission to photograph eagles at Pellas Lake Red rock had come to the point of calling it quits a bit of light started to poke out. It was soon pointed out to me that we were on the wrong side of the damn and quickly running out of sun.


So we Ken Norton and I quickly crossed


The damn and set up not only putting our faces to the sun but the 30+ mph winds that were coming right off the lake.


Even with the wind and quickly fading sunset I managed to get a couple reasonable sunset photos. With the cloud deck being so low and the thin opening for the sun to peak through made for a very dramatic scene with the frozen lake adding just that much more to it.


The opportunity did not last long as we knew it wouldn't. However in this case it was fine because be the time the sun went below the tree line and bluff on the other side of the lake I was cold enough I was not to worried about getting one last photo.
If you would like to view these as well as other images in a larger size you can visit the gallery here.
Thanks and God Bless,
Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)