Category Archives: Photography

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 218 – In My Room

Long day. I’m ready for bed but it looks like I’ve got one more phone call to take care of before I can sleep. I did a bit of shooting earlier this evening but nothing worth posting. Maybe this one isn’t either, but I’ll let you be the judge. I am in the room that once held bunk beds but is now the guest room in my parents’ home. I sleep here every time I visit.

Because of the rack that hangs over it, the bedroom door does not close easily and I expect Ta-Shi will join me sometime during the night.

I think there is a mosquito in the room.

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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.

The Amaz!ng Meeting: Parting Shots

My last post on the subject.

Sara Mayhew, Manga artist. ” A Life of Art and Skepticism”

There were lots of people sporting Amy Davis Roth’s wearable art, Surly-Ramics. (I have three!)

I like this shot from the afternoon taping of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe

Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist and author of A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

Saturday Night’s keynote presentation was a conversation with Penn & Teller.

After dinner we went to Kelly Carlin’s one-woman show, “A Carlin Home Companion,” a reflective journey of her life as George Carlin’s daughter.

Okay, well, there are lots more at my SmugMug gallery, if you are so inclined.