Endikos

One month down, 11 to go!  Today I spent quite a bit of time with my son Gabe finding lego pieces and building this little set. Finding lego pieces is both easy and insurmoutable at my house, as we have seven bajillion of them, but you have a hard time finding just the right pirce.  Anyway, this is my homage to both Lego (which I spent a lot of time with as a kid) and some of George Lucas’ (and to some degree Steven Spielberg as well) best known work.

Another experiment in light painting. This is the first photo I’ve wanted to give a title to.  For various numinous and ineffable reasons, I’ve decided to call it “Worship”.

It was either this, or a brick of cheese.  Don’t ask.

Today I decided it’d be fun to photograph my small Southern Pacific toy train.  I have a special fondness for the now-defunct Southern Pacific railroad – my grandfather used to build and maintain the microwave communications systems for them.

Not far from work is a Fire academy, I think it’s part of the local community college.  Out front they have several vehicles that have every appearance of being routinely lit ablaze for the students to practice their skills on.  This tanker trailer is attached to an old semi they use for these exercises.

I’m discovering that I really like macro photography. While my particular gear (macro-wise) isn’t the awesome-est, it certainly gets the job done.  I gave Gabe this watch the day Karla and I got married, as a reminder that I’ve chosen to love him too, for all time.

This morning I had to put a bit of gas in the van before I drove to work.  Fortunately for us there was this vintage bucket fire truck by the filling station, and it just happened to have icicles dangling from it in various fun places, like the gauge cluster similar to what I shot the other day.

I started out going in a completely different direction and wound up taking a fairly straightforward portrait of Gabe using light from the living room window light.

Somehow it feels poetic to take a photo of the old film camera with the new digital.  One can argue the merits of each until you’re blue the face, but the Olympus OM line of cameras will always have a special place in my heart as they’re the first cameras I had that really taught me photography.

Yup. Went to Applebees, took a picture of the light.  Actually, this was taken completely blind because the camera had to be on the table facing directly up to get the shot.