Category Archives: Around the house

Day 228 – Fresco Grapes

You’ve seen our grapevines before, so I thought I’d try something a little different. Fresco effect with vignette.  I kind of like it.

Day 223 – One last look around

I spent most of the day at the hospital waiting for a particular surgeon to show up. At four o’clock we still hadn’t seen the whites of his eyes. Since Mom came a few hours after I did, and Ta-Shi needed to be fed, I left and headed home. Fortunately, the hospital is about five minutes from the house and I arrived in no time at all. I fed the dog, grabbed my camera, slapped on my 50mm lens, and did one last shoot around the patio.

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I fly home tomorrow morning.

Day 222 – More waiting

I actually took this photo yesterday. Sorry. I spent the whole day at the hospital. Mom has a number of wind chimes hanging around the patio. I like the texture and the color of this bell.

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One more day here, I think. Still, I think I’ll be back again next week. Major surgery is likely in the works. This is so hard.

Day 217 – Railroad Lantern

Sweetie inherited two railroad lanterns from his grandfather. This one is an Adams & Westlake Illinois Central Railroad lantern and is a hundred years old.  I tried different lighting and backgrounds.

On another note, I’ll be leaving tomorrow around noon to go to L.A. Dad isn’t doing well, and Mom is at the end of her tether, as you can imagine.

Day 214 – Antique Books

It started with an 1880 edition of Ben Hur (not a first edition) and over the years I’ve built up a fair collection. Here are just a few.

Day 210 – This and That

On the good side, the Olympics are fun to watch. On the bad side, Dad is back in the hospital and what’s going on is pretty scary.  I don’t know if I’ll be hopping a plane soon or not.

Anyway, I played with my new toy in the backyard this morning using the silver reflector and diffuser panel to provide fill light against some pretty bright backgrounds.  I used my flash to fill in what otherwise would have been dark shadows cast by the morning sun.

Sweetie left his work gloves in the wheelbarrow and a windstorm blew them out into the yard. We think Nina did this.

Grape leaves against the sky.  I love that I didn’t blow out the sky and that the grape leaves in the shade were perfectly exposed.

Buddy is a bit camera-shy sometimes. He’ll sit still, but he doesn’t like to look at me when I’m holding the camera to my face.