Thank You Friends
2009...
I got a new job, finished by 365, and there's a baby on the way. Not a bad year.
Just wanted to give a shout out to a few Flickr friends tonight.
I met quite a few of you this year: Carl, BWag, Hallam, Alana, Lori, Mike B, Dave, Jeff, Craig,and Miss Asbestos Maite.
From meeting up with Carl who has become my shooting buddy, to hanging out in Columbus with Doc, New Orleans, oh New Orleans, Richmond, running around downtown Jackson with Craig, an abandoned school in Vicksburg with Mai Tai, er, I mean Maite, and shooting strangers with Corey in Oxford after meeting up with Bill. It's been a helluva year.
There's even been a few I'm talked to that I hope to meet real soon. Hi Nicole!
And the Clique. You know who you are. You are the ones I look up to the most. It's an honor to call you my friends. Can't wait to stomp a mudhole in the ass of 2010 with our project!
And to everyone, a happy New Year.
Big Ass Strobist Info - Take one Big Ass Sunpak 383 at 1/4 power into one Big Ass Westcott Brolly and add a Small Ass Cactus Trigger.
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Uploaded on Dec 31, 2009
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Chesnutt
I'm sorry for my lack of communication
But as I'm staring out this fifth floor window
Seems like the least amount of communication
The better
Oh, what am I supposed to say
"There's a bloody effigy on my wall
And the complimentary carnation is falling apart"
And I ain't got time for the niceties
Or rather I was never fond of the niceties
I will see you around
Strobist info -Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 into bounce brolly. Cactus Triggers
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Uploaded on Dec 31, 2009
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Come On Over. You'll Regret It.
Hmm. What to talk about tonight. The best of 2009 perhaps? The worst of 2009 maybe? It's too early for that.
In case you don't already know Flickr meet ups are being planned for March 12-14 in New Orleans and D.C. Mike B is in charge of the D.C. meet up, while, well no one's really in charge of the NOLA meet up. We just meet up and participate in debauchery.
Go here for details: www.flickr.com/groups/superdupermeetup/
Strobist - The Kitchen Sink Light. A new low for even me.
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Uploaded on Dec 30, 2009
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Passings (2003)
The symbolism of the falling snow was not lost upon me. I stand at the window feeling the cold seep in, the air outside becoming white. Behind me my dad lies in the hospital bed seeping away from life.
All of us kids are there, all four of us together in one place for the first time in years. We know what's coming. There's a silence about it that pervades the room. A denial even. But it's coming. The man has lived his seventy-three years on Earth, the last three tethered to an oxygen tank, his breathing becoming more labored with each passing year. His frame shrinking to skeletal.
We watch the oxygen level throughout the two days decline, and then one evening he slips off without a word, closing his eyes, lost in a deep uncomprehending sleep. The breath rises and falls incrementally, machine like and at times leaving question as whether it will come again.
Then that third day. It's morning. We think ourselves prepared as we gather in our semicircle around the bed, his breath becoming slower and slower. The digital numbers decreasing. And then nil. And the realization that nothing can be done, that nothing can be said comes over you. It's over. It's done. Finished.
Strobist info - Vivitar 285HV with 1/2 CTO at 1/16 power to camera right. Cactus Triggers.
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Uploaded on Dec 29, 2009
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NOLA
Busted, down on Bourbon Street;
Set up, like a bowling pin
I'm in the planning stages of a Flickr meet up the weekend of March 12 in New Orleans. If anyone is interested let me know, or go here: www.flickr.com/groups/superdupermeetup/discuss/7215762180...
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Uploaded on Dec 27, 2009
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