A collection of Black & White Cityscapes and Skyline Photos by Photographer Jason Wilson.

As a golfer in Ohio you must be ready at a moments notice for a round, especially if you want that round anytime between say mid-November and mid-March.  Its pretty much a play it by ear scenario.  And well, I was playing today by ear.  The Metroscap Gallery is closed on Mondays, and today’s weather was going to be questionable.  A chance of showers in the late morning /  early afternoon, but dad and I decided go for it.  So we headed down to a course we knew would be open, Westchester Golf Club and played nine.

There wasn’t anything too spectacular about our 9 hole round today, other than the fact we had the opportunity to play before St. Patrick’s Day.  In fact this post was scheduled to be a Rub-it-in-I-played-golf-today-and-you-didn’t-cause-you-have-to-work-on-Mondays type of post.  But then I noticed something about the photos I took with my iPhone of our round.

SIDE NOTE: Look at how incredibly straight my left arm is in both of these shots (your humble author is in the black shirt).  Very nice. Especially for March. Holding the wrist cock very deep into the swing in the bottom photo.  -Oh, and yes, I know, my pants are too short. There, no need for 12 pages of comments about the jeans, they’ve been addressed.

What I’m fascinated with by these series of photos from the iPhone is the severe distortion of the golf club on a downswing.  I can’t figure out what’s going on here in these.  If this were a real camera, and the sensitivity of the CCD were super high, like ISO 3200 or even 6400 and the shutter speed was even 1/125th second, I imagine it would still be able to freeze the club shaft with out the heavy distortion that’s IF a shot at f/2.8 @ 1/125th ISO 3200 wasn’t completely washed out.  I just can’t grasp what is going on here to make these photos look like this. (by the way, I’m guessing at these settings as I can’t seem to find any EXIF data other than the F-stop, which was 2.8)

The last one really baffles me.  In that photo, you see the club on the downswing, the ball still on the ground, and then the ball in flight – that’s no lens flare to the left of his leg, that’s the ball.