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What’s going on in my life
We drove to Phoenix with Darrell and Mary Anne yesterday for one of our semi-annual cultural outings. On past trips we’ve we’ve gawked at first ladies’ gowns, renaissance masterpieces, contemporary photography, plasticized corpses, and relics of the Titanic. This time we beamed up to see a traveling Star Trek exhibit: Our friend Mary Anne, it […]
I think I cracked the code on getting shallow depth of field out of my little point & shoot digital camera. Here are two photos of my favorite model, Schatzi: These were both taken with the shutter aperture wide open, focused on Schatzi’s head. Nice effect, and not something you can get with your camera […]
So in my community college photography class, I’m supposed to be learning how to control depth of field by adjusting shutter aperture (f-stop) and speed. Depth of field, we’re told, is the range of distance within the subject that is acceptably sharp. The higher the f-stop, the longer the range of focus; the lower the […]
Two Sundays ago, we took Schatzi with us on a rugged hike in the Rincon Mountains east of Tucson. She hashes with us and handles four- and five-mail trails with ease, but there were a lot of big rocks on this trail, rocks two or three times Schatzi’s size . . . to make a […]
Every year a local car club puts on a car show in Tubac, a resort community halfway between Nogales and Tucson. I started to aim my camera at hood ornaments and grills, as I did at the Barrett-Jackson auction last week, but there were always people in the way, so I gave up and just […]
So how’s Barrett-Jackson? About like it is on TV, only keener. I was there all day Tuesday. That night in Phoenix I bored my daughter Polly to tears watching B-J live on Speed, saying “I saw that car,” and “Oh, that one too!” Wednesday night, back in Tucson, I did the same thing to Donna. […]
Speaking of cars (see previous entry), I’m riding my motorcycle up to Scottsdale tomorrow to see the Barrett-Jackson Auction. Judging by the prices people pay for cars at B-J, I figured it probably cost a couple of hundred just to get in the gate. This year I took the trouble to Google ticket prices, and […]
Last one of the Christmas/New Year’s season, I think. Good thing, too, because as much fun as we’ve had, as much as we love our friends, we’re partied out and are ready to crawl back into our shells, like those DSL tortoises from the TV commercials (so much more interesting than Chad’s nerdy cell phone […]