Monthly Archives: April 2015

Bandwagons, Photos

Man versus Nature

52Frames, week 15: Nature “A good walk spoiled"
52Frames, week 15: Nature
“A good walk spoiled”
My image for last week’s 52Frames photo really fell into my lap.

Rockford has been playing in his company’s golf league for a few years now, and last week was the first week of the new season. He’s been looking forward to it for weeks, and when the moment finally arrived? It started to pour. He was loading his clubs into the car, and I walked out just in time to find him gazing out into the rain, having been betrayed by Nature and feeling thoroughly dejected.

Our story has a happy ending, though. The rain let up enough at our house to convince him to give it a go, and it wasn’t raining at all by the time he got to the course. So it wasn’t “a good walk spoiled” after all.

52frames, Bandwagons

Pablo Picasso said “There is no abstract art,” but I tried anyway

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Actually, Pablo said

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Last week’s 52frames challenge was Abstract, and the “something” I started with was a camera and very little idea of what I was doing. The resulting photos make it clear that my “abstract” photos are on the wrong side of the line between auteur and amateur, but I had a blast doing the challenge anyway. I tried to do some artsy shots with the violets and the trees in the front yard, and I played around a little with oil, water and food coloring.

The photo I submitted was one of the oil and water experiments.

52Frames, week 14: Abstract “aqueous humor”
52Frames, week 14: Abstract
“aqueous humor”

I think it looks like a weird, watery alien landscape. What do you think?

in brief

“Hey Mama, I’ve got a question.”

Here’s a “conversation” Pete had at me this morning. It started while I was in the bathroom, and it ended when we arrived at our first appointment of the day.

“Hey Mama, I’ve got a question. This isn’t a good time to ask it, though. But the question was: when you’re done can you find out if Iron Man can come to my birthday party? Because that would be really cool. Or maybe Spider-Man, because I still have those Spider-Man cupcake things. I know Iron Man’s normal job is saving the world, but it would be really cool if he came to my birthday. Or maybe Thor could come! I know Thor likes parties. You know what would be great? If ALL the Avengers were there! Maybe they could because they already defeated Galactus. He’s in the negative zone now. There’s infinity stuff there for him to eat. I’m glad I wasn’t around when he was here.”

He also mentioned that he’d be a little worried that Hulk would smash his cake if he showed up.