A bit distracted from photography today due to oral surgery, but I did manage to get some shots of the rain on our deck. I love the interference patterns in the ripples.

Someday I’ll run out of things in the house to photograph and will have to venture back out into the rain. Hopefully not this week.

Back to my music theme today. This is the first few channels of the Mackie 1402-VLZ that lives on my desk. It appreciated the cleaning it got after I looked at the first set of pictures I took.

I’ve been reading Scott McCloud’s “Making Comics” as a source of inspiration for using static images to tell stories. It’s already worked for this image, and was a strong influence for combining images here. He’s also got me imagining much more complex ways of combining images that I’m looking forward to experimenting with. Stay tuned…

Final posting on the 2008 NAMM conference. Rockband and Guitar Hero were huge on the convention floor this year. Given how much the music equipment industry seems to be embracing the games, it must be good for the real musician business.

Taken in Taylor Guitars’ showroom at the NAMM show in Anaheim. They were showing off their new solidbody electric guitars.

Sometimes the crossword puzzle clues are more like poetry.

This Kodak Junior Six-20 was my father-in-law’s camera (circa the mid 1930’s). I have photographed it before (here).

I just ordered a few rolls of Plus-X Pan film for it. The camera is in great condition – I’m looking forward to shooting with it sometime next week.

Yes, the spoon is labeled “spoon.” And our knives and forks are labeled, too. This one should really say “big spoon” ’cause that’s the size I use with ice cream. Ben and Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch, by the way.

89°59′ 29″ N, 122°15′ 07″ W
See you next year!