Shutter Mike Photography

I wrote about Photographing a Theme to Beat Photographer’s Block a while back and I have been having fun with approaching my photography with a theme in mind.  My latest theme photo shoot was metal.   The great thing about doing a shoot like this is you  are only limited by your imagination.  A theme of metal does not need to limit you to only the obvious metal object.  Once you start shooting you may end up going down a different path or interpret your theme in a way you hadn’t thought of originally.  But that is the whole point, to get your creativity flowing, so go with wherever it takes you.

In the case of my metal theme, beside obvious metal objects, I looked at things like shadows created by metal objects, the contrast between metal and its surroundings, and pattern in metal.

Arizona State University has installed solar panels on roof tops and the top decks of their parking garages that generate about 2 megawatts of power.  That is enough to run about 4,600 computers. The panels generate about $425,000 worth of energy and reduce ASU’s carbon emissions by 2,825 tons reduction per year.  The equivalent of the emissions from about 523 cars.  Arizona State has the largest solar installation of any US university.