I don’t know why, but Christmas Day night, I just went and wandered around downtown taking photos. The Diner here, is no bigger than a double wide trailer, and occupies a quarter of this sliver of a corner lot… must do good business though to afford to stay open in the prime real estate area.
Quite a few of these old film images, really call for me going back in and doing a completely new scan of them, and an updated edit. The reason I don’t, is because it shows me, and my ability, capability, technology available (to me) at the time… so as to like be able to view…
A scene I was able to capture, after quickly and stealthily going to get my camera, and come back into my bedroom, without disrupting it all, and making either leave. I often wonder what my cat, Li’l Girl, here when she was still only eight years old, would do if say, that pane of glass…
Taken from out my kitchen window, of the countless fireworks being set off throughout the town, neighborhoods… officially/legally, and unofficially/illegally on the Fourth of July.
As I’ve said before, weddings is one thing I really have absolutely no desire to ever shoot… but, here I am photographing wedding number three of four that I have done… this one should have been the last. This is the ideal wedding for me to have covered though… casual, informal, outdoors… held in the…
Seriously, her blue eyes were not enhanced by me in any sort of way. Truth be known, I wanted to go in and actually DE-saturate them, as they are just entirely too blue! They just must be some designer, colored contacts, or something.
One word of advice I would give to those looking to improve their photographic skills, and increasing the odds of getting “keeper” images, would be – patience. Waiting for the shot. As for this shot from 2004 that I spoke of, how I waited there patiently, with camera to my eye for what I was…
