May 2012
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"Blue is the Color of My Tears"
The title of this is from a poem that Leta wrote about the color blue. Talk about a gut punch. Kid can write. I can’t help but attach all kinds of meanings to her words, but I have to stop that and take a step back. They are her words. They are about her. Grief can jack the boundaries. It’s the thing I’m working on the most right now, today. Not denying the grief, but letting it...
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Tower Vertebrae
Taken in San Francisco here:
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This one was taken during an informal photowalk during the Google Plus Photography Conference with Mark Esguerra, a great photographer and very nice person. You can see his blog here, his portfolio here and his Google+ profile here. We had just shot the Bay Bridge and were walking back to the conference when I looked up and fired off a couple of...
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Bent Nail Latch
Detail from a shed door taken in the morning on Memorial Day. When the light is great, you hardly have to do any processing or tweakery. I barely touched any sliders on this one.
I need to have some sunny mornings instead of gray ones. It’s time.
Daily affirmation: What’s the rush? Be with it awhile. Seriously. Even if the mornings are gray still.
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Treasure Island Molting
This is from the Treasure Island photowalk I took part in as part of the Google Plus Photography Conference last week. One of my fellow walkers, Alan Allum (hit that link, he’s got some lovely flower shots), pointed me towards a building that was boarded up and looked like an subject for durability testing for exterior paint. Kept shooting around until I got a larger version of this. When I...
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Storm Won't Quit
Can’t escape the weather.
Leta and me(I?) are visiting family near Bear Lake in Northern Utah. We had hopes of hikes, bike rides and photo walks.
Alas.
We have played some serious foosball and Leta is a good forward player. I have had serious middle school flashbacks. I played a lot of foosball in 7th & 8th grade. A lot. Its been fun to be on a team with Leta.
We head back...
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Car Art
I’m back from San Francisco. It was a great trip and so good to see my friends and meet new people. I attended the Google Plus Photography Conference that was run by Scott Kelby. Went on an official photowalk to Treasure Island and learned a few tricks about how to light people using a two then three speedlight flash units; one as master, one or more as slave(s). It was windy and cold....
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Departures and Arrivals
Goodbye San Francisco.
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Mike Diamond on the Beastie Boys Last Recordings...
“He had us fooled in the most beautiful way,” Michael Diamond said of Adam Yauch, his friend and fellow Beastie Boy for more than 30 years, describing the latters “incredible optimism” during his three-year battle with cancer.
via Mike Diamond on the Beastie Boys Last Recordings with Adam Yauch | Music News | Rolling Stone.
I missed this one yesterday. Still hurting...
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Powell
Caught this off the hip using my 12-24mm super wide angle lens.
I’ve got a whole lot of shots like this from years past. This one is working its way up my favorites list. Most for the ghosts.
Daily affirmation: Look at someone in the eyes and smile a real smile.
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From a Late Night Train
Off to the conference, this morning. More to come.
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Appetizer
Caught this guy on Market Street in front of Old Navy. Bucketman.
This was his finale. Impressive.
Daily affirmation: Stop trying to escape who you are. Turn and face it.
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Twelve
I’m in San Francisco for a few days for the Google+ Photography Conference. I’ll try to post regularly from my phone and whatnot, but no guarantees.
Yesterday, I went with my old college buddy and his family to a park in the Sunset to watch the eclipse. I got a couple of shots using Hipstamatic where the eclipse is visible via lens flare. Look at the very bottom of this one:
A tiny...
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Emerald
Downtown.
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LTD
The Ford LTD. Majestic.
Here’s a brochure featuring The station wagon I mentioned in this post:
I don’t recall if one of the station wagons was the Country Squire edition. It was an LTD, though. Straight ballin’.
Looking at that boat of a car, I’m reminded of this:
America!
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Option to Buy
More New Orleans beauty. I don’t recall where this was taken, but i wish I did. I could spend a couple of hours shooting all the textural goodness of this building.
Daily affirmation: Get one longstanding thing done today.
This affirmation is something that I’ve been trying to do all week. I think I cracked it last night. It’s nerd-related and I’m proud of myself for...
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It's a Mirage! Sabotage Tribute Video
Excellent tribute to Adam Yauch. Hit the video page and read the creator’s post. Really touching and beautiful.
Via: Daring Fireball
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Vintage Detroit Iron
Saw this car parked behind a suburban professional building in Salt Lake City. Weird juxtaposition of doctors, dentists and this incapacitated Ford LTD.
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I grew up with two Ford station wagons; one right after another. We used them like covered trucks for my mom’s business and they towed our Starcraft popup trailer on family camping trips. The bit of taillight shown in the image is...
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Booker T. Jones: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
I’m working on a post remembering Donald “Duck” Dunn, legendary Stax bassist who passed away on Sunday. Dunn played for years with Booker T & The MGs; they were the house band at Stax in Memphis. In looking for videos, I found this great one of Booker T playing at NPR. The Hammond B3 sounds glorious:
Excellent audio engineering. And he was 17 when he recorded “Green...
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Hood
Detail of a Plymouth Fury badge. I’d date this in the 1969-73 era, if I was forced. I believe that Mike Brady drove a Fury on The Brady Bunch (Booom.), featuring the green of the early 1970s that looked like it came from mushy peas. Or split pea soup. Or pea anything. Awful:
Even with the awfulness of most of General Motors Chrysler’s vehicles of that era, the Fury design from...
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Sunset Blues
This is from the same session as this shot. I really didn’t do much. Bumped the contrast up. Pulled the blacks toward “more black”. Tiny bit of saturation and vibrance to the overall image and then bumped up the saturation in the purple and blue range. I also applied some noise reduction due to the higher ISO value. This may sound like a lot of work, but it wasn’t.
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So this happened.
I was turned down for this cover:
It’s ok, there are other fish in the sea, TIME.
photo of my head taken from an image by Heather.
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N.O.? Y.E.S.
In New Orleans, the manhole covers have “N.O.P.S.I.” on them. This 2011 shot was one of the first ones I took on the street. I noticed these during my 2009 trip (click here to see the image) and wanted to get just the N and the O. Don’t know why it took over a year to process this one. Actually, I do know. It’s been a shitty year. I don’t say that to be a downer. Just...
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Arcs & Sweeping Curves
A couple of interior shots from the Salt Lake City Public Library building. This is one of the best public spaces in the city. Best.
I was playing with split toning on the featured image and changed it up for this one:
Daily affirmation: Think big. Bigger.
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