It seems like old news to me by now, but I haven’t said anything about it here. This blog is for posterity as much as anything else, so I suppose this is worth mentioning.
On Thursday, March 27 2005 I was involved in a automobile accident. There were no injuries thank God, and the damage was relatively minor. But even this low level of car wreck is a massive inconvenience. It’s been almost a month and things are moving at glacier speed. The insurance company is in no hurry to get things right.
The body work is very slow going with the insurance company not being much help. I need to try to contact the claims adjuster and they even make that a chore, having to go through their website communication portal I’ll call it. They don’t call. They don’t text. They don’t send emails, at least not directly. The only emails I have received from the insurance people have been telling me to check their website for the actual information. But at least they started doing that. The first couple days I would just get the adjusters voicemail when I tried to call, and had no idea they were sending things on their portal. So annoying.
I don’t know how this sort of thing goes for most people. I suspect it isn’t much better. I expect most insurance companies make things as uncomfortable as possible while still fulfilling their legal requirements. The one time I was actually able to reach my claims adjuster the phone line was so bad I couldn’t understand half what she was saying.
The accident was 100% the other parties fault. This was acknowledged by his insurance company. They claim to make everything right. Great. I just have to do everything on their schedule and the way they say. They won’t even cover the rental car cost upfront. I have to rent the car on my dime then submit form to be reimbursed. I’m wondering what fresh hell the insurance company will unleash when trying to get back the $800 plus dollars expended. I shudder to think.
The rental car is a Mitsubishi Mirage G4. It was pretty much brand new when I got it. It had 400 miles on it give or take. It’s a small car, but the interior is pretty comfortable for my large posterior. It doesn’t have an arm rest to the right of the driver though, and that’s a little inconvenient. It does get good gas mileage. 40mpg if I’m reading everything right. I haven’t done the math yet though. There aren’t a lot of bells and whistles. But the price is pretty low compared to a lot of other options. It seems like a good value from my limited experience with it.
Sunday morning again, and it happens to be Easter today. I’ll be going to church very soon. Praise Jesus and his miraculous resurrection, hallelujah, amen.
I’ve included a picture of a (Easter) bunny I took at the fair last year. Yeah, it’s in a cage and is kinda depressing, but it is a bunny. There is probably a metaphor there somewhere.
I haven’t posted anything on this blog for a good while. I have been working on the website proper though. I totally scrapped everything I had and rebuilt it from the ground up. So far I just have a home/landing page and the blog. The blog posts all remained intact. I just am reworking the templates for the display of the blog posts and archive page. Understanding how that worked was information I learned after I created the previous versions, and I wanted something different anyway.
One step forward three steps back. I trashed a lot of work again. I’ve started over several times now. It is a little disheartening, but that work wasn’t great, so no big loss. On this iteration I’m much happier with the results, so far. I’m trying to narrow down the focus of what I’m putting out on the main page structure, and presenting an overall theme that isn’t too busy or trying to hard but still looks good and personal.
The blog post content will continue to be whatever I want whenever I think about it and decide to write it. I hope the layout and theme will be more concise. I’ve learned more about templates and themes and implementing those tools into the main project. I’m learning everything as I do it, and in probably most cases I’m learning it incorrectly or backwards compared to a real web master. But I do enjoy learning this new (to me) technology. I know website building is pretty old-hat by now, for the people who really do this stuff, for a living I mean. But it is a new world to me and I enjoy exploring new worlds even if it is tedious. I like being able to look at something I did. Hopefully it is good.
I do want to go back and play with the experimental driving shots more. I feel like I’d have some fun playing around with the sliders at least. I may even come up with some ideas to do more than that. Unfortunately (literally) there is no profit to be had and my time is probably better spent else where. Granted I will probably choose an unfortunate amount of that time reading fiction and watching television. After all Im only human. And let’s face it if I were a highly motivated individual that put more value on money than I do in being content, I’d probably be a lot less content. But that is some of the reason I am doing this blog and trying to do with some kind of normal regularity.
I have deleted my Facebook profile. I did it for multiple reasons, but the reason relevant to this missive would be, I feel it is somehow a better use of my time to type up ideas no one will read and post pictures no one will see than to waste time on Facebook doing pretty much the same thing. This forum will I hope be more pleasant and wholesome. I am trying to distance myself from the political insanity that has been all to pervasive lately. Really, following politics has been a big part of my life since I was a child. My father watched news like other fathers watch football. I understand that politics is deadly serious stuff, but I’m of the opinion my only political outlet is to vote and that only happens periodically. Obsessing over politics has been seeming to me to be less and less healthy. I have no interest in being a politician nor do I have any chance to realistically. So at this time I say politics is for the birds.
That’s a nice segue way that was entirely unplanned. When I started this post I started it with the intention of posting the gallery you should be seeing below. I had the luck, opportunity, timing, availability, and motivation a couple days ago to acquire the following images, and many more that didn’t make the cut. Actually these bird photos are a by product of my main focus for getting out my camera on that beautiful morning. The primary reason to be succinctly is buzzards. There were a couple hanging around in the area and I decided to take the opportunity. I have many shots I would consider worthy of viewing and a couple I think are genuinely good. I will look at them more closely in the coming days, or maybe I’ll play with the experimental road photos. I recon I will decide how to spend my time at the very last minute.
I don’t know a whole lot about birds. I do know that one of these is a cardinal. It’s the red one. Even though I think pretty much everyone knows that. The few shots of the cardinal were somewhat obstructed by the pesky tree it decided to sit on at the time. I feel lucky to have been in the right place at the right time for what I did get.
I believe the one sitting on the lamp is a mocking bird, but that’s only a guess. I think I’m correct, but I’m no authority on the subject. I think this one was a little curious about me, and decided to spend a a minute observing my actions. It probably wondered what I was doing. The close up’s displayed in this gallery are cropped versions of the larger images adjacent to them. The one flying away is our mocking bird friend. Sadly that capture was a little blurry, but I wanted to remember it as well. The shutter speed for this group were all set to 1/500. Apparently that was to slow to capture that motion, thus the blur. I pretty much already know 1/1000 is probably the minimum for getting fast action, like quick animal movements. But I didn’t exactly expect to get this. Plus when I set up for the shoot conditions it had been a long while since I shot birds, and I really didn’t anticipate getting one mid flight. a lack of foresight that could have been overcome. Perhaps next time I’ll remember this lesson.
Usually when I am trying to capture birds in flight I’d have it set it to the 1/1000 or faster, but I usually don’t get anything, because they are just too fast for me to focus on. On some level I know it is best to get them as they are perched, and wait, and hope they take off before your arms get too tired holding the camera still.
Then there are a couple of what I’d guess were some sort of finch. I just assume most small birds I don’t recognize are some kind of finch.
It is spring time more or less and the birds are seeming happy about that. I’s like to think I get other good chances to play with the birds soon.
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This experimental series was created while returning from my trip to Atlanta. The same trip I’ve posted about recently where some family and I visited a couple museums over the Christmas holiday, 2024. The trip was a bonanza photo taking experience for me. I got quite a lot of interesting things added to my collections. Perhaps someone other than myself enjoyed some of these.
I’m glad I have this new forum to share my work. It kinda helps motivate me to do something with some of my photography. I have quite a lot of good things to share in my humble opinion. Many of those good things can be used as pieces making up new and other good things, a bit like my Balz project posted back on the High Museum: Part 4 blog. It wasn’t phenomenal, but I didn’t put too much work into it. Just having a little fun. Which is to say if I had a good reason, I could likely make something pretty wicked cool if I had hours and hours if I wanted to spend working with it. I may still play with that project a little more sometime, if I feel an urge.
I have a lot of ideas that almost never have anything made of them other than some vague picture in my mind. But I hope I can bring myself to be more actually creative instead of theoretically creative. That is kinda what this blog post is about. Which is to say I had some ideas I thought could be fun, interesting, and possibly cool. While I was killing time as an automobile passenger on the way home from a family trip to Atlanta, I thought I’d play with my camera a little bit. I enjoy trying and learning new things.
I started out playing with shutter speeds in conjunction with the moving vehicle. I and the vehicle were traveling along at about 55mph, and I was experimenting with shutter speeds on the mostly stationary objects outside the vehicle. Usually, at least in my case, I am the one that’s a stationary object, and the subject is the one moving. And it was interesting.
The first pic of this gallery, shows the results of a shutter speed experiment. The results were interesting. Most of the pix i took during this time were disappointing and rejected. I expected lack luster results when I started playing with my camera. I was just bored.
Experimental Highway Shots
The fog at the time was a huge variable that added a lot to all these images. It was an unusually foggy day with the fog lasting all day at very dense levels across the entire region we traveled through. Trying to shoot anything from a moving vehicle in an unplanned scenario is difficult, at least for me. One must see something interesting, focus on it, adjust the settings, and then get the shot, all while moving at highway speeds. These roads being surface level state highways the speed limit was usually 55mph.
I quickly got bored with the first approach. There were miles upon miles of nothing but trees and oncoming traffic. Oh, and fog. Had I found a nice spot to set up, I’m sure I could have made something I actually liked for whatever that’s worth.
This next group of photos were taken a good while after the first batch. After a while our group got on the interstate proper. I found it a good opportunity for pics that more interested me. The fog was still heavy. Traffic on the interstate was pretty dense. There were a lot of lights and colors. Lights and colors being of great interest to me, I pulled my camera back out. I got some pretty cool shots. One or two of which I thought were actually pretty good in their way. I was enjoying myself more at this point than when on the rural surface streets. But I did eventually start getting board again. I knew the area quite well and knew there weren’t much in the way of landmarks I thought had any real potential for being interesting. And pictures of cars on the road are basically just pictures of cars on the road. Not something I needed for any reason whatsoever. So I gave it a rest. But I did get some cool stuff.
Soon my next idea to play with my camera dawned on me. It came to me pretty quickly after I got bored with the shutter speed shots of the interstate traffic. My next idea was an extension of something I started playing with earlier in the day at the High museum.
While taking photographs of mostly the exhibits, at the High museum, I encountered a technical problem. I was going through my camera’s settings trying to figure out what was causing the problem, and I was very frustrated at the time. I had gone through every setting in the camera’s digital menu and couldn’t figure what to do. I was starting to worry the camera was malfunctioning. It turned out the problem was the mode dial, nothing in the menu settings. Somehow I had inadvertently twisted the dial to take timed delay shots instead of the usual standard single shot mode. Delay mode shots are primarily intended to grant a photographer a few seconds after hitting the shutter button to get into position with the rest of their family before the exposure fires.
Anyway, while investigating my menu settings trying to pin point my immediate issue, I came across a feature I have almost never used. A feature I thought was essentially worthless. It was something I had never really given any serious thought to, but it for some reason piqued my interest. It was the multiple exposure mode. I decided I would try it out in the field a bit. It was actually kinda fun. I could see potential to do cool things. I had always been of the opinion, if I wanted to merge two images I could and would do it in Adobe’s Photoshop. But with time i came to see multiple exposures would be cool and useful in some circumstances.
Multiple exposure mode in the museum wasn’t particularly useful, at least it didn’t seem so at the time. There could be some awesomely cool stuff you can do with it there, but I didn’t and don’t know what. The things I did with it at that time were purely experimental. I didn’t have all day to play around with it. I think I had one or two shots from that location that came out kinda nice, but most were just meh. Besides, merging together two different artists works into one mash-up is kinda disrespectful, and I can’t see a good reason to ever publish it.
Which brings me to this next gallery, which as you can see encompasses my entertaining and educational experiment using various types of multiple exposures. All of these have been taken directly from the camera with only some digital processing. No editing of any kind has been performed on any of the shots in this gallery. There are several different sub-modes available in multiple exposure mode that have widely varying effects. I played around with a couple, but ran out of road too quickly to do as much as I would otherwise have done.
Screenshot of the sub modes in multiple exposure mode
I was not at all drunk or otherwise impaired when I took these pictures, but as you can see they have a very dunk effect to them. Kinda like your seeing double. Because you kinda are. Adding in the slow shutter speeds inside a fast moving vehicle, and you have some interesting if discombobulating images.
On my holiday trip to Atlanta this year with some od my family, besides visiting the High museum, we also visited the Center for Puppetry Arts. Which is a museum but has puppet shows and workshops for puppet enthusiasts. It probably boasts a few other services, but I’m not really sure. I very much appreciated the exhibits museum portion of the center. In all honesty I probably wouldn’t would not have gone strictly for myself.
I said it was a holiday visit, Christmas specifically, and being the Christmas season the museum had a visiting exhibition including Christmas and Hanukkah related puppets. This was defiantly cool to me. I got to see the original puppets used in making the classic Christmas cartoon. “Santa Claus is coming to town.” I grew up watching that movie on TV not long after it came out in 1970. It was played on television every year for a good long while. I’m quite sure I saw it on TV multiple times during the Christmas season while growing up. This is back when television was the king of entertainment. There were only 3 national channels, and the air time was much more valuable than it is today. Anyway, seeing this was a fond memory of my childhood.
Another treat was getting to see the Emmett Otter jug-band puppets from “Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.” This movie came out in 1977, a couple years after I was born. I don’t recall when I first saw it, but I do recall i first saw it on HBO. At that time HBO was pretty much brand new. I can’t piece together the timeline with any accuracy. I just remember seeing it for the first time and being both entertained and moved emotionally. I don’t recall having as much of an emotional response to the Santa film, but I was younger then and don’t remember much of that time.
“Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas” was probably one of the things that sparked my interest in music and especially rock’n roll. IMDB is being a little stingey with cast info, and I don’t care enough to do more research on this subject. But i remember that there was a group of bad boys that were among the protagonists of Emmett. The leader was a bear in leather biker get-up and there was a snake in mirrored sunglasses if I recall correctly. This is probably when I started to sympathize with the “bad-guy” in films. Probably Darth Vader was first, but that’s altogether different really in my opinion. Even though they were the bad boys trying to foil Emmett’s goals to win the contest, they were pretty cool to me. I remember I did like their rock n Roll music quite a lot. Or at least it made an impression on me. Looking back now it was probably not good, but to me it was new and interesting. It’s too bad they didn’t have the puppets of the bad boys.
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Today I just wanted to post something, anything really. I haven’t posted anything for a little while and I want to continue this blog “project” with as much vigor and persistence as I can muster for as long as I can. So today I’m going to post random thoughts with only the one picture in the featured image.
For the record the featured image is of my sister Carol posing with the Chucky doll at the Museum of Puppetry arts in Atlanta, GA.
I’m adding a new category to my blog called Random Thoughts under the General Interest parent category. For now it is a sub category. I’m learning and experimenting and growing my skills as a blogger and web site builder as I go along here, and I’m quite likely going to change things as time progresses and my understandings change.
I’m not posting or re-posting the featured image inside the body of this blog. I want to see how it works out from a technical and aesthetic standpoint. I will soon see if the featured image can be seen at full resolution, which in this case the long edge is 1000 pixels. Or will it be a thumbnail only? Maybe I’ll comment my thoughts once I’ve published this post,and had a chance to see how it is presented.
It occurs to me I will probably be the only person that ever comments on any of these posts. That’s sad but okay I guess. I suppose I’m doing this mostly for myself anyway. Even if I do ever read any of these things again, it will probably be because I’m dying and looking back on my life. I don’t expect many, if even any, people will ever find any of this interesting enough to read more than one or two posts. I’m probably fooling myself to think anyone would read even that much. Yes, I’m a very positive person as this paragraph clearly shows /sarcasm.
I have not yet made any real attempts to make money with my photography. Defiantly not any attempts to market using this web site yet. The only business cards I’ve handed out so far have been to coaches or teachers on school bus field trips, so they can contact me when they want me to being the bus back so they can leave. It’s probably ridiculous to use my photography business cards in that capacity. I don’t expect to get any business that way. Not really, anyway. I suppose there is some small chance that it works into something, but I’m probably just pissing them off by using that for my contact information. It is entirely accurate and I’m not actively trying to sell anything. I hope I don’t run afoul of the powers that be in control of my actual pittance upon which I survive. I would hope to get at least a warning before being fired for something this trivial. It’s better to ask forgiveness than ask for permission. Words I live and probably die by. Heh.
There are plenty of other random thought on my mind. I had hoped to write more. I had several ideas of things to write about when I started this post, but they have slipped my mind. Random thoughts always coming and going randomly me. But I’m running out of time and need to prepare for church. Oh I have so many thoughts on the church. I probably ought not ever let most of them see the light of day though. I don’t need or want any help going to see Jesus, and as Jesus knows best simply sharing your thoughts can get you crucified.
My fortune was favorable. On this visit to the High they had an exhibit featuring two artists I knew a little bit about already. Artists that are quite well known by many people, even people who know very little about art. It was a fascinating, educational, once in a lifetime experience for me. A noteworthy experience Im happy to have the ability to recall in this fashion. A day prior to going on this trip with my sisters family, I had no idea that I was going to have such a monumental day. I even debated on if I wanted to accept the invitation or just stay at home. I’m glad I went. I deeply appreciate the opportunity, and my chance to see world-class artwork.
Alfred Stieglitz https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Stieglitz is one of the great photographers in the history of photography. A name that will be remembered as long as this society remembers things like art history. I honestly didn’t know that much about him prior to my chance encounter with his work here at the High. I only knew I’d heard of him prior to this exposure of mine. I had no idea, but learned at this exhibition that he was married to Georgia O’keefe. That being the thread that tied together theses two monumental artists being mixed together in one exhibition.
I’m not going to spend much time on biography. I am posting some links for quick reference. There, however, are volumes written on both these artists and their lives that can be easily found if one is so inclined. I did read a good bit of the Britannica posting on Stieglitz, and found it fascinating, and I intend, but probably will never get around to learning more about the man. Woe is me. There are so many things I find fascinating and such a finite amount of time to appreciate it all.
One piece of history I will mention. It was a central theme of this exhibit that Stieglitz and O’keefe lived together in New York city for some period. Im not trying to give dates or a straight-up history lesson here. I’m simply adding my own commentary based on my remembrance of this personal experience.
Georgia O’keefe https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georgia-OKeeffe is a well known and influential painter. I knew some things about her prior to this experience. Admittedly my knowledge was very limited. I knew O’keefe as the artist that painted flowers many people likened to female genitalia. And, well, sex sells. As the cliche says. As such her name and work is probably more well known among the artistically illiterate than most. Personally I knew a little more about her and her work than that base generalization. I’m pretty sure I had seen some of her works as a young person while traveling in the southwest United States. A great deal of her paintings were inspired by her time in the American southwest. Not only did she like to paint flowers, she also liked to paint cow skulls, and other kinds of bones I believe. I didn’t know that she was also well known for her paintings of New York city, which I learned at this exhibition.
Another interesting thing I learned at this exhibition is, at the time, O’keefe was considered by some to be a marginal artist at best, and that she only got famous because she was married to Stieglitz. It’s interesting to me now that she is probably more well known than Stieglitz at this point. Again, these are just my thoughts and understandings.
I have little doubt that things like becoming famous and/or rich due entirely to who you know were discussed at the time. Such things are still discussed today. There is a lot of merit to the idea that one can become famous only because one is associated with the “right” people. It does’t mean that one does not deserve to be famous. Although I think many people who never deserved to be famous are famous simply because of who they know. I think that such a social dynamic is actually one of humanities greatest failings. So many worthy minds die unknown and unappreciated while some many complete idiots are elevated to godlike status in this world. It’s a damn shame.
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I knew a little bit about Howard Finster before seeing this display. This maybe the first time I had seen any of his art outside a book or the internet. I became familiar with him and his work from one of my old bosses. I suppose he was as much a friend too. Anyway my boss was a big fan of Finster. He visited his Paradise Garden during the time I was working for him. He was blessed to meet with Mr. Finster. MI remember my boss was very excited about the experience, and told me all about it. He may have brought back some small piece of art that he may have shown me. This memory is from around 30 years ago, as I write this, so I can’t say one way or another what actually was said and done during that discussion. What I can say is it was my introduction to the genius of Howard Finster, for which I’m gratefully blessed.
Howard J. Finster’s work is also enshrined in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He was a pretty great artist, and fairly contemporary. His art is in my opinion is Olde Tymey Americana style. That’s not a real thing. I just made it up. It’s my best short description of his style. He was a preacher and most of his work focuses on the work of God, good and evil, peace and Hell. Most of his work, or a lot at least, has has written things directly from the Bible and his own interpretations. I’m far from an authority thought. Just posting my observations.
Sadly Howard Finster has passed. He leaves behind a great legacy of art. He created an artistic landscape out of his Georgia home, Paradise Gardens. You can see and learn more from the Paradise Garden Foundation Instagram page. Hopefully the foundation will be able to keep it for a long time to come for the enjoyment and education of all.
This is my humble dedication to my appreciation of this great man.
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I made an experimental video this morning. I’m pleased with the initial outcome. This was a fairly lazy experiment on a Sunday morning. Mostly just having a little fun, but I think I may explore the concept a little more.
I was looking at my High Museum photographs and thought these guys were interesting.
Colorful ball sculpture using many multi colored fibers. High Museum of Art 2024
I started to play with them a little bit and decided to try something. I wanted to play with some strobe effects, some different colors, and different positioning. These two photos are in fact subtly different images though very similar. So I started with them as my base. I have one more similar image I plan to add to this project at a later time.
As the title suggests these were photographed at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta on my trip in 2024. I don’t know the original artist I’m afraid. I will try find out who it is in the future.
I also want to experiment a little adding video to my blog. This is the first video posted. I am going to try to link from YouTube. I don’t expect this to be too complicated, but isn’t that always the way it goes. Here goes nothing.
That was easier than I thought. And I will leave this experiment here for the time being as I must leave for Church.
EDIT: 2-10-25
I added the third ball into the mix and dropped the time significantly for the second iteration.
Edit 2-23-25
Moving around the balz a little bit. This is kinda fun. Kinda…
