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Tulips

2012-05-17T22:35:57Z

I shot this photograph with available kitchen light with back-lighting through the rear window. At the time, I thought the window screen either would diffuse out at F2.8 or else make an interesting backdrop pattern. Neither one quite happened though. Still, the soft floral image appealed to me enough to post. 'If you stop and think, a funeral is one of the natural things in the world. I enjoy it very much.... especially in the summer.' -Unidentified gravedigger Lexington Herald Leader 8/24/1998

Picture of the Portrait of Charley Kinney

2012-05-16T23:03:07Z

Folk Art Center Morehead, Kentucky It's been a long day, so here's a quick I-Phone photograph. I accompanied a friend on a trip to look at some used photo equipment and seeing how we had some time to spare, we visited the Folk Art Center in Morehead, Kentucky. I love this gallery and visited it several times over the past year. We left the camera equipment in the car and walked several blocks, not thinking that the gallery would allow photography but they did. Here's a photograph looking down the stairwell where they have some vintage-style photographs of folk artists. We enjoyed finding a new cafe named Root-A-Bakers that served great soups and sandwiches as well as having great service and exceptionally friendly people. I loaded up on coffee at the Fuzzy Duck Coffee Shop and we made a few I-phone photographs on the sidewalk. The photography equipment was in great shape and we had a long conversation with the seller who is a professional wedding videographer using DSLRs instead of video cameras. Later in the day, I photographed some bee keepers at work. So it was a long day, but very interesting.

At the lake in the rain

2012-05-15T23:22:31Z

Internal Exile by Richard Cecil Although most people I know were condemned years ago by Judge Necessity to life in condos near a freeway exit convenient to their twice-a-day commutes through traffic jams to jobs that they dislike, they didn't bury their heads in their hands and cry 'Oh, no!' when sentence was pronounced: Forty years accounting in Duluth! or Tenure at Southwest Missouri State! Instead, they mumbled, not bad. It could be worse, when the bailiff, Fate, led them away to Personnel to fill out payroll forms and have their smiling ID photos snapped. And that's what they still mumble every morning just before their snooze alarms go off when Fluffy nuzzles them out of their dreams of making out with movie stars on beaches. They rise at five a.m. and feed their cats and drive to work and work and drive back home and feed their cats and eat and fall asleep while watching Evening News's fresh disasters- blown-up bodies littering a desert fought over for the last three thousand years, and smashed-to-pieces million-dollar houses built on islands swept by hurricanes. It's soothing to watch news about the places where people literally will die to live when you live someplace with no attractions- mountains, coastline, history-like here, where none aspire to live, though many do. 'A great place to work, with no distractions' is how my interviewer first described it nineteen years ago, when he hired me. And, though he moved the day that he retired to his dream house in the uplands with a vista, he wasn't lying-working's better here and easier than trying to have fun. Is that the way it is where you're stuck, too? (click here for books by Richard Cecil)

Smoky Mountain Stream

2012-05-14T00:01:56Z

Smoky Mountain National Park Tennessee I've been fortunate to have been invited on a few trips recently as well as had some nice lenses loaned to me to try out, so hopefully I might have some different shots if things turn out well. Here is a photo from a Smoky Mountain trip with family members last week, we were limited on the amount of walking that could be done but I found this stream by the roadside. Don't ask me the name, but when you come off the mountain from Newfound Gap coming back to Gatlinburg, you'll do a couple of sharp hairpin curves and this is to the right of one of the curves. Funny thing, where the stream runs on the downhill side of the road at this very location is the site of a photograph of mine from the 1984 that I gave to an aunt of mine. It hung on her wall until her death and then was returned to me decades later. It won an Honorable Mention at the local camera club year end competition of 1983 but I never cared much for the print at all. This photograph, though, I like fairly well. Goes to show that a person does improve some even if it does take nearly 30 years to do it. hahahaha! For a glimpse of the past, here is a link to a pdf version of the January 1984 Ohio Valley Camera Club newsletter that I coauthored with Larry Rees for a a few years.

Take a bite

2012-05-13T04:01:09Z

Another of my Hipstamatic sign shots, taken during a photo outing to the park. Perhaps more grungy than my taste and I need to adopt a fresher angle of framing. I've read Lightroom has now included I-Phone lens correction in their database.

Hardware

2012-05-12T04:01:05Z

One evening not long ago, we drove to Grayson Ky and had dinner at a pizza shop that has located from Columbus Ohio down to Grayson. Great service and excellent food. I can't find their website, but Johnny's Pizza is located downtown in the older row of businesses. When you walk in though, you will find new interiors, smiling faces, and a clean restaurant.

Car at the pawn shop

2012-05-11T04:01:13Z

Here's an interesting car that was on the pawn shop lot. Real stately, we would be in style when driving to the parks for our photo walks. hahaha!

UK

2012-05-10T04:01:05Z

I shot this one during our aborted road trip to photograph the horse races. You might remember, we drove a couple hours only to find out the track was closed that day. Had a nice meal though and then found this guy. An I-Phone shot, not Hipstamatic though.

Shifter 2

2012-05-09T04:01:11Z

Some have asked for an update on the car. So far, the average MPG (since I bought an app for that) is 47.5mpg. That is regular driving, around town and out to the parks. In the beginning, I was getting about 50 mpg but then started driving it like I drove the turbo charged Volvo. The electric traction motor has loads of pickup from a stop light and surprisingly the car has more than enough get up and go at highway speeds because it calls on both the gas engine and electric motor (I have learned the nomenclature, electric is always a motor, gasoline is always an engine. Sort of like the difference between a ship and a boat in conversation, you better know the difference when talking to a sailor or an electrician.) Fill-ups are 30 some dollars, range is about 500 miles. Lots of headroom and legroom, very comfortable actually for a basic car, I have read that some enthusiasts transfer a Volvo seat into the car and having owned one, I agree but the factory seat is fine and I've had no back spasms like I've had in Hondas and Camrys. Other than the ugliness factor, makes you wonder why everyone doesn't consider one. They need a sports-car version, though. I really wanted an Audi TT.

Panini Truck

2012-05-08T04:01:24Z

A series of Hipstamatic I-Phone photos of signs. The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ~W. Eugene Smith