I mispell things!
a pano of 4 photos from adam’s concert on february 5, 2009. you can’t see adam’s face (which is pretty typical because he definitely has a nack for hiding it when i am taking photos) but you can see his bassoon. he’s the bassoon on the right. it’s best viewed large. be warned it is a large file.
my dad bought me the above spartus full-vue at a garage sell a couple of years ago. it has just been sitting in the “man cave” as decoration until today. i decided i was going to go out and take a view toy camera shots. the polar plunge was today and that is just the kind of event that calls for toy camera photos. since my lubitel is broken at the moment i used the full-vue and my holga. in a couple of weeks we’ll see how the photos turned out.
of course, this could be the only time the full-vue ever gets used because the crank for the film spindle broke while i was reeling the film through its last frame. makes me have mixed feelings about whether i want the photos to be any good or not. on one side of the coin i won’t feel like i really lost anything if the pictures are crap. on the other side it would be nice to know that i did get a couple of good shots from the thing before it died.
SIDE NOTE – as i said above the 2008 stevens point polar plunge was today. the boys and i decided at the last minute to go out and watch some of it. since the place where it is held is dang difficult for the terrell family to find (in other words, we got lost last year and this year) we got there right at the end of it. i’m contemplating trying this again next year. anyhow, here are two of the 3 photos i was actually able to take from the really crummy location we had.
the title pretty much explains the purpose of the photo. for those who are wondering, yes the hook is in my nose, but no it is not all the way through my nose. that part has been photoshoped.
i have a beautiful wife and i live in a gorgeous area.
the terrell family is in need of a new family portrait so pam and i went looking for a couple of good spots. this was one of the test photos.
i thought y’all might enjoy seeing what the point area looked like a month ago and what it looks like in the same spot during may. both photos were taken at emy j’s (the best little coffee shop in the point area) on the 28th of the month. it’s just that one was in april and the other was in may.
quite a difference huh?
a friend, brad,, mentioned something awhile back that has stuck with me. he talked about how deceptive photographs are. they look like a slice of reality but they aren’t. i read susan sontag’s “on photography” soon after brad’s statement and began to understand a little more of what he meant. that’s why i thought i would share this article today. it is about one of the best known photos of the vietnam conflict. to quote the article.
Adams wrote in Time magazine, “The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn’t say was, ‘What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?’
if you have a minute and you’re into photography it is well worth the few minutes it will take to read it.
this is cool. it’s the eye fi which is an sd card that has wifi capability built into it. you tell the eye fi where you want it to send your photos (i.e your computer, flickr, snapfish, dacebook, etc.) it will then sit in a waiting state until you walk by an open wifi connection. then it sends you photos automatically. how cool is that?
i think it would be great for semi-realtime photos of a church function, event, etc. pam wishes she had it for her “operation smile project. all she would have to do is turn the camera on near a “hot spot” and BINGO the boys and i could see photos. no need for a computer, miniusb cable to hook up your camera to the computer, or any software for uploading the photos. i just keep thinking of what i could have done with this at youth camps and mission trips. could you imagine telling the youth ministry parents that they can go to your flickr account and see photos from what their child is doing? so are just so many possibilities for this thing.
i just think it’s fascinating and it offers intriguing opportunities for using with tapestry (once we start doing things) and family. i’ll have to get me one of these after i take care of the other things on my plate.
photojojo describes even more about this freaky thing.
my run for the day
distance – 2.0 miles
time – 19:05
pace – 9:32/mile
first the important news. pam had some minor surgery today. pam has a recurrent tracheal stenosis that interferes with her breathing. today they basically stretched her trachea back out to the size it is supposed to be. she went through it like a champ and she is home and fine now. she is presently sleeping the drugs off and feeling fine.
secondly, “speaking of faith” is a public radio program that deals with faith in america. they decided to do an episode on the new monastic movement, focusing specifically on the simple way. i was thrilled to find out earlier today that they decided to use one of my photos for the webpage art. here’s the page.
cool huh?
[tags]new monasticism, simple way, photography, public radio[/tags]
i’m about to sell my second unsolicited photo off of my flickr photostream. a pizza company in the u.k. wants to use my photo of my halloween family for one of their commercials. how odd is that?
denis darzacq’s photographs of french youth “falling” are amazing both for the technique and planning involved and also for what they say.
[tags]youth, photography, denis darzacq[/tags]