What else can I say?

Today’s picture is of a desk and chair my father built when he was in grade school. I’m not sure the exact year, but it would have been in the 1920’s. The top of the desk is about the size of a dollar bill. It’s made of pine and nailed together with tiny brads.

Drinking fountains at Flint Center on DeAnza College campus. We were there tonight seeing David Gergen speak.

Rodin’s “Burghers of Calais” at Stanford.
10 second exposure, with light painting from a flashlight on the foreground sculpture.

I wanted to play around with some high key lighting, so I stacked up these blocks on a white board. I used a long lens and tried to position it to give the blocks the feeling of an orthographic projection.

We’ve lived in this house for about five years, and until today I didn’t know what our doorbell looked like.

Dirty walking shoes live outside our front door.

My main guitar cable, much cooler than flat black.

Working with lighting again today. This shot is lit by a combination of candle and flash. I wanted to get a warm feeling from the scene and be able to see some detail in the flowers while still feeling the effect of the candle.

More details about the shot if you click through on the image to the flickr page.

Learning about lighting with an exercise from stobist.

The exercise is to vary the apparent light source size, leaving everything else the same. The image on the left was taken with the flash bounced off a 42″ umbrella about two feet away from the maglite, creating a huge apparent light source. The middle shot was the flash shining directly on the maglite from about 18″ away, creating a source that is small but still big enough to soften the shadow a bit. The image on the right was with the flash about 8 feet away, becoming close to a point source of light.

More details if you click on the image through to the flickr page.