Time To Get This Puppy Flying

Since my daughter Val has decided it's not a bad thing to constantly make less than polite comments about why I haven't started this blog nearly three months after saying I would, here we go. Thank you Val for your input. Love you.
Why a blog? Why not? I'm as opinionated as anyone, and since I'm as old as dirt and nearly as pretty, I'm presumably wiser and possibly right about a few things. Or not...but that wouldn't be the primary purpose of this blog. For the major portion of whatever goes on here, we're talking photography. My intent is to share some of my photography, my thoughts on photography, and links to other photography related sites, resources, and assorted photographic stuff. And since I am opinionated about most everything, I imagine I'll have a passing comment or two about other things happening in my life when my eyeball isn't pressed into the back of a camera.

I expect the format and look of what's going on here to make a few changes as I get to figure out what I'm doing. Then again, many would say I've lived a good portion of my life never quite figuring out what's going on. To those of little faith, I say: whatever. So then...welcome to my first post, and hopefully, my first blog photo under this if I understand everything correctly. More exciting things to follow, including who I am, where I live, and possibly my shoe size, because people really don't talk enough about shoe size and I think it may draw us closer together if you know personal tidbits like that. I'll kick off this first post with two photos. The first is a recent one of lovely model Bevin taken at a Strobist get-together. Strobist is the place to visit to discuss and learn about all things related to off-camera lighting. Check it out. I'm looking forward to doing another session with Bevin in my home studio in the near future.





Next is a photo of an old diner I took last year. Old diners must appeal to a lot of folks because I was surprised at the number of "unsolicited" views it received on my Flickr pages. For the record, at present I haven't gotten into the Flickr cycle of mass posting a photo into thirty or more groups and the subsequent number of views one will get from that. I have mixed feelings on that practice and will more than likely spout off in a future post. The pic obviously has a lot of post processing applied...I was going for a old post card look and got it to a point where I was happy. And isn't happy a wonderful place to be?