This post isn’t about a dog, or photographing dogs . . . really. Continue reading ‘This is not a Pipe’
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
The outer bands of Fay should be coming across Tampa in just over an hour. Usually I would be excited about this. A Tropical storm or, at best, a Cat One is just going to be a lot of rain and a great reason to have some drinks. However, I am supposed to be moving out of my apartment on Wednesday. So, I should, in theory be packing up my U-haul trailer on Tuesday right when the storm is passing Tampa. And, even if I get it loaded sans rain, I then have to drive North in that mess. Ugh.
The tracking models are not consistent yet but that is only in matters of degree. The storm is hitting Florida. But given its trajectory and the shape of Florida, a very minor change can mean the difference between hitting Naples and Hitting St. Pete. The official track track has it coming ashore in Ft Meyers but the probability cone stretches from the Everglades to Tallahassee. UKMet’s model is perhaps the most distressing, having it stay just off-shore as the storm cruises North wrecking havoc all the way up the coast. That one also takes the storm North to Atlanta, so I’m betting that’s how it will go since it will make my life the hardest.
I have to say though that I do think this is neat timing, a nice bookend to my life here in Florida. That is, there is a hurricane coming to exactly where I live on the very last days that I will be living here. That is pretty cool. Its like nature is giving me a going away present.
Roy, a good friend to Hud Stuff, over at Vindauga is having a show. Y’all should check it out. Continue reading ‘Check it out’
I just finished laying out an 11″x17″ poster for the show . . . there are clearly different skills involved in good graphic design versus good photography, but I can afford my own labor.
Jerri and I have been together for about 10 years, married for the last 7. I guess I have had so long to get used to how she is, that sometimes I don’t properly appreciate how great she is. For example, when I told Jerri that I wanted to get up at 2am to drive to Starkvegas and take some night photos and sunrise photos then immediately turn around and drive home, she didn’t even act surprised. When I asked her to go with me and help, she didn’t hesitate. When I actually woke her up at 1:30 am this morning . . . ok so she is never happy when she wakes up, but she got up and helped me load the car anyway. She then helped me lug equipment all over State’s campus, and chase color in the clouds.
A few days ago, while I am sure I could have been productive . . . I instead made digital dupes of some old negatives. I think most of them are from 1997 or before, but I wasn’t very good about dating my work until we moved to Savannah (1999?). One day I will go through and digitize all of my old work, but that goes at the bottom of a very long list of “one day” items. In case you are wondering about the “breaking my own rules” thing, I haven’t done anything to most of these images and I wouldn’t call them print-ready . . . and I normally have a rule that I don’t show people anything I wouldn’t print and display, but these have a certain nostalgic value to me without them being quality work. Hopefully no one will judge my current photographic skill by the quality of things I shot ten years ago. Continue reading ‘Old Work, really old OR breaking my own rules’
At least once a week I get annoyed at George Lucas and episodes 1-3 of what should have remained a trilogy. Continue reading ‘Picking at old wounds’