Prosaic Paradise

“Do you mind holding this saw and standing in the shower?” My creative mind, when faced with a strange place and slightly out of my element, goes for something like a trope. That’s OK. The important thing is that I had something to light. Before this weekend? I had never lit any photo with anything […]

I couldn’t remember the NATO phonetic alphabet for ‘K’ and had to look it up. Sad. For the past several hours, in fact most of the day, I have kept myself sequestered in the upstairs office, with the curtains closed, distracting myself from what’s going down out there. I had a bit of a moment […]

A friend of mine contacted me last week to see if I’d shoot his band Ephemeral Sun (myspace for listening purposes) during rehearsal so they could have some pictures of them actually playing their instruments. I guess being prog rock nerds they normally like to keep their identities secret, but from what I hear that […]

I was getting out the matches to light candles for a nice ambiance (and maybe to make sure the house smells nice for guests) and very nearly burned this little guy in the face!! How cruel would that be? 

This is how I spend my lazy morning – trying to take a self-portrait for the Digital Photography School weekend challenge. Things I wanted to capture: my bedhead Bon Jovi hair, the bathtub for no good reason, and my camera which was the actual point of the challenge. Why yes, I’m just sitting in the […]

Since it’s like a spring day, right now I’m airing out the house. I absolutely had to get some fresh air myself, so I also took Jack on a forced march through the neighborhood to get some sun and hopefully remind my body that it has a purpose other than racking with coughs. I always […]

I don’t care if it’s November. Here’s a few photos of our costumes this year – the Clue characters. Minus Mr. Green, since we didn’t have someone to play him. Thanks Jen, Pam, Lars, and Jack for participating so enthusiastically… wait Lars! Not that enthusiastically! (Last year we were the Scooby Gang… apparently I came […]

When I signed up for a photography workshop, I thought, who am I kidding? Then I thought, it doesn’t matter who I am kidding, because I am going to have fun and even if everyone else in this thing is some kind of professional with a $5000 camera, it will be fine because sometimes a […]

Jack graciously took me on a neighborhood walk tonight when I arrived home to put some use to the camera. Unfortunately it started snowing too hard for me to feel comfortable setting up the tripod and I don’t have weather gear, but before that happened I caught this. I made it to and from work […]

I’d give you a drum roll but my rolls are a little rusty what with never practicing them. We bought a Nikon D90! Jack is so, so supportive. Once I decided which camera I wanted there was really no ratcheting back, and this is not the bottom-tier camera. I understand the gravity of this commitment, […]