Soap and Windows

A couple of weeks ago I arrived at the Vineyards at 6:40 am . I had appointments early afternoon , after which I had to check into my hotel and get cleaned up for dinner with friends. driving around killing time I found a store that had it's windows all soaped up.  they looked so interesting ,so I parked my car in a 15 minute parking spot , just across from the police station .It didn't matter to me that it was pouring , I just wanted to get photos of the windows.

After about an hour I noticed that people were stopping their cars to see what I was doing . No one got out or said anything , they just stopped and watched. . I guess they figured anyone stupid enough to stand in the rain photographing windows wasn't all there in the first place.

Maybe that's why the police didn't give me a ticket ;o)

Lobsterville , Lucy Vincent and Philbin beaches

More from Menemsha

Menemsha

spent last week at the vineyards , arriving on Tuesday , three days ahead of our 3 day Alison Shaw's mentorship group on Friday. here are some of the photos from Menemsha harbor. I didn't realize how busy we would all be for the weekend retreat  , the mentorship is turning out to be a lot more involved and for the better.It couldn't of happened at a better time for me. 

with work , relationships and all else that overfills my life there never seems to be enough time to shoot. the mentorship has forced me to get off my levi's . so during the time of year when I'm usually hibernating I'm working , even if it's mostly indoors. come the next retreat I'll arrive even earlier to shoot all the places on the island I scouted last week. 

more photos to follow in the next few days.

Macro Photography

with winter here and the weather the coldest I can remember since 2002 it is time to photograph indoors . after the last couple of weeks working with macro lenses and a few close up arrangements of my own I have come away with a new found respect for people that photograph the miniature world. 

It's time consuming , difficult and backbreaking work.

even after thousands of shots I'm still far from where I want to be but realize the hard work and effort will help develop my overall technical skills.

Bubble Trouble

finishing out the end of this year 2013 playing with oil , water and colors. have a wonderful New Year's . 

Bowl Season

reading the sports section today they have two whole pages dedicated to the college bowl games.  there are 8 bowls named after locations , Texas has 3 , Dallas , Texas and Alamo .there is also the  New Mexico , Las Vegas , New Orleans ,Hawaii and the Idaho Potato .  It’s a stretch but there is also the Buffalo Wild Wings bowl.

there is the Pinstripe Bowl but I don’t know of any football teams that wear pinstripes. There is the Armed Forces and Military bowl. It’s hard for me to believe that they could lose any game if they took it seriously.

food seems to be popular with bowl names. The Little Caesars , Chick-fil-A , Beef ‘ O ‘ Brady’s , Sugar , Orange and the fight Hunger bowl . hmmm, that seems like a good cause .

the Poinsettia , Belk ( Whatever the hell that is ) , Russell Athletic , Music City , Holiday , AdvoCare V100 , Sun , Liberty , Capitol One , Outback , Fiesta , Compass and Go-daddy Bowl.

and of course there are still the ones I remember when I was a kid , The Rose , Cotton , Gator along with the above mentioned Sugar and Orange bowl . 

This was how it use to be , back when I was actually excited about college football . before I realized there were even 70 colleges in the country , which is how many teams are playing in bowl games this season.

growing up it was Texas , Notra Dame , Alabama , Oklahoma , Nebraska , Ohio State , Michigan , USC , Syracuse and RPI ( now RPI never actually went to a bowl game but to me when I was little they were as big as any of the other teams.)  . now it's everything but the toilet bowl. where most of these teams today belong.

O , by the way , there is also the BCS Championship Game . All in all , I probably won't watch a single one of them . I long for the days when life was simpler. 

Ho Ho Ho

Happy Holidays

Actually one of these photos is from Cape Cod , can you quess which one ? ;O)

The colorful life of children