Jack is 4, his dad is an engineer, his grandpa is an engineer, his mom came in to order her family photographs yesterday. I set out the usual toys to distract him for a while, and went through the sales process with Mom. We were near finished when I saw him moving my Key light to the white cove, then I turned around and noticed he had lined up a bunch of stools to pose people on, then he was heading for the toy dinosaurs to place on the stools when Mom said, come on Jack I think we’ve given this guy enough things to clean up after you, we’re finished. She made a good order, I just had to photograph his handy work.
My job a few days ago was to make this commercial building look interesting. I did the drive by shot, then got out and walked around. The sky had a beautiful overcast, but the light direction was gone completely. I used a wide angle lens to make the front corner look large and important, enhanced the sky in photoshop, to bring out definition in the clouds. Then I lightened the corner and darkened the walls to bring a little light direction in.
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As you can see my grandson Phoenix broke his arm. He shows off his colorful cast as his sister carefully looks on. Gratefully he will be good as new in a few weeks. I remember breaking my leg and wearing a full leg cast in Jr. High. Not fun. As an adult, my profession has been pretty safe. I really don’t get myself into dangerous, potentially, painful situations. Although there was that engagement sitting a few years back that left me with a herniated disk.
I was in the studio moving a prop (a heavy wooden fence) when it fell on my back. The sudden pain told me this was not going to be a simple bruise. I stoically finished the sitting, went home and spent about a week in bed, and a few more weeks hobbling to work. I haven’t hurt myself at work in years, and I don’t even have that prop anymore. Hopefully I will be injury free for many years to come, knock on wood.
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2000 Year old stone vase, small oil vessel, fragile clay pot, 2500 year old coin with the head of Zeus, and a cool 2300 year old coin with winged women flying over a monster with the body of a bull. Really fun and beautiful objects.
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Just went up the canyon with Dan and Melanie and had a great time, it was a little cold.
We had a great time.
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