Our little baby Emma getting her ‘diploma’ :) Go class of 2012!
Our little baby Emma graduated last week!
It only seemed like a split second ago that she was only able to say, ‘I wuv choo choo buddy’ (I love you too, Daddy). Now we’re engaged in conversations like these:
Emma: Daddy, I’m sorry I hit the bug. Can we let it rest so it can fly again?
Me: No Emma. When something dies, it cannot ‘be’ again. It’s gone.
(She felt really, really bad about having accidentally smashed a bug against the interior car roof while trying to ‘shoo’ it away. That night, in her prayers, she asked God for forgiveness. I cleaned the bug off the car roof that night as well after she slept)
Next day:
Emma: Look Daddy! The bug is gone! Who took it?
Me: God took it away, Emma.
Emma: Why did He take it away?
Me: Well,… He probably thought, “Well, I made this, and now it’s broken. Let me take it home with me.”
(after a pause)
Emma: How did God get into our car?
Me: ……..
I have never re-blogged, but this is profound to me.
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I had a chance to shoot some Polaroid pictures over Mother’s Day weekend. It’s been a while and, I must say, I’m rustier than my ancient, foldable SX-70 :)
But the joy of taking pictures and, in this case, seeing it develop before your eyes, is still something that nourishes me.
Playing with the video on my D90: I like the fact that I can use Nikon’s prime lenses to produce smooth bokeh in the background and isolate the subject, but how I wish it auto-focused…
It’s been non-stop ‘life’ since the New Year: work, kids, and chores…
This past weekend was more of the same.
But then Quynh suggested we step out and shoot some frames. I’m so glad that she did.
Simple set-up: A blossoming wild patch of flowers, my favorite aperture setting (f/2.2), add shutter speed to taste, ISO 200, and a Lastolite reflector to bounce sunlight into her face (you can see a reflection of the panel in her eyes).
Q:Love your picture!
Why thank you! :) I’m glad you liked it…
So apparently tumblr likes my Disneyland picture :)
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“What’s my day like tomorrow?”
Merry Christmas everyone, and have a Happy, Happy New Year!
Me: Why are you crying, Emma?
Emma: Why did the Turtle have to go away?
Me: … Because it was Turtle’s time, Emma.
Emma: When is it my time?
Me: Don’t worry Emma, you have plenty of time.
Shots of my family vacation on the Big Island of Hawai’i :P
Sometimes in the rush of capturing memories, I forget to pay attention to the one principal ingredient of photography: Light.
It’s a serious offense, considering that photography literally means ‘writing with light’.
So during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, I set out to right that wrong. To minimize fuss with gear, I chose my 50-year-old SX 70 and some expired Impossible film. No fussing with aperture, ISO, or shutter speed - just a lot of focus on light and how I want to position my subject relative to photography’s most crucial element.
I learned to not only pay attention to moments that I want to capture, but also to how those moments coincide with where the interesting light happens to be (since I was dealing with ambient light). Should I rim my subject with light? Should I then also place them closer to a surface that then bounces that light onto the shaded portion of their profile? It was wonderful having had time to slow down and experiment with photography in that way.
But I’m far from being able to reproduce these results at will. The ultimate goal is to think of light in this way, all the time, with or without more gear, with ambient, flash, or LED lights. That’s why I am in such awe of pros like Joe McNally. McNally’s pictures are the combination of his vision, his mastery of the technical aspects of photography, as well as his artistry of shaping, controlling, directing, and communicating with light.
The journey continues…
My kind of airsoft :P
The coolest, best way to shade The Impossible Project’s film on folding SLRs.
Mr. van Niekerk always finds ways to tempt me to buy more gear… :P
