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    some recent photos

    20090816_002_1

    sunny with occasional leaps and bounds

    Surprisingly, a lot of people really like the grungy, color-shifted look used in the above photograph. Maybe the appeal is in what it implies: that we live in a world where "there is nothing new under the sun" and yet, somehow, everything old is new again. And I'm more than a bit amused by the fact that I'm using a computer and software (Photoshop CS2 on an iMac) to make a photograph look "dirty" even though I've taken it with a digital camera that automatically cleans its sensor to ensure a dust free image.

    20090816_014_1

    katelyn watering the plants

    She's so used to being photographed that it doesn't take long (usually!) for her to pretty much forget I'm there. It's then that I get blessed with images like this. I understand the cultural role of posed photographs but I could never pose her in any way that would express more of who she is than what I capture in photographs of her being herself in her world. It always makes me a bit sad when clients don't feel comfortable stepping out of the "posed portrait" box.

    20090813_042_1a

    tony o'brien at the marketplace

    This is Tony O'Brien getting into it with his soprano sax. I took this last Thursday evening at the free concert event at The Marketplace in Bakersfield, CA.

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    • 18 August 2009
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    Oh a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park / Or the lion hunter In the jungle dark

    Or the Chinese dentist or the British Queen / They all fit together In the same machine

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device

    Oh a whirling dervish and a dancing bear / Or a Ginger Rogers and a Fred Astaire

    Or a teenage rocker or the girls in France / Yes, we all are partners in this cosmic dance

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device
    _________________
    From "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

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    Oh a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park / Or the lion hunter In the jungle dark

    Or the Chinese dentist or the British Queen / They all fit together In the same machine

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device

    Oh a whirling dervish and a dancing bear / Or a Ginger Rogers and a Fred Astaire

    Or a teenage rocker or the girls in France / Yes, we all are partners in this cosmic dance

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device
    _________________
    From "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

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