March 2005 Archives

More Maine

Bass Harbor Lighthouse Maine

Bass Head Lighthouse

Said to be among the most photographed sights in Maine. Getting this shot offered a hilarious opportunity to observe the manly photographers among us. Three "serious" photographers with tripods, perched on the rocks. Me and two guys. They were together and got there first. Rt helped me clamber over the rocks to get to a good spot. Already, the manly men were superior for having gotten "better spots" than mine. I'm set up, taking shots, reframing, watching the sunset, which isn't spectacular, but is the only sunset I'm going to get that day. I'm going to do something with it -- this girl is working what I've got. I did not hear another shutter release the whole time. My read was that the guys were so busy impressing each other by not being impressed that neither could take the first shot.

Of course, my bent toward dramatization could have completely misread the situation. Or they could have silent cameras. Or a hundred previous visits to the same spot, so it truly wasn't worth the extra shot. MYOB and I got this shot.

Posted by AT on March 30, 2005 6:20 PM | | Comments (1)

Tags:

Maine - lobster buoys

Lobster buoys on Bar Harbor Island Maine

Lobster buoys

I'm wading through my back-log of images to be filed, categorized, inspected, cleaned of sensor dust, sharpened and printed. R, or more precisely, Dr. Pok, his alter ego, helped immensely yesterday to simplify the PS workflow by showing me how to test some lore on image quality. In this case, the lore that one needs to enlarge files out of the Raw converter, is in fact, wrong. Which means I can work on much smaller files and get more done. Like getting this ready to show you.

October 2004, during our trip to Maine and Acadia National Park, where I photographed while R, in his full-metal scientist costume, attended a meeting at Jackson Laboratory. We ate lobster together, and went on a lobster fishing expedition, in which the tour leader and lobsterman, reeled up a gravid female. He tossed it back

Posted by AT on March 27, 2005 6:07 PM |

Tags:

Final home meet of the season

Gymnastics uneven bars meet motion

Grinning in flight

Another victory, senior night and a 30 year reunion of former teams. The second meet we attended was the 20 year reunion, in which Suzanne Metz scored two 10s and a 9.975 to set a record for the highest ever NCAA individual all-around score.

Continue reading "Final home meet of the season" »

Posted by AT on March 19, 2005 9:28 PM | | Comments (1)

Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple of Utah

04-051-10.jpg

Padma, the lotus flower

I've turned my project into a proposal for the Finch Lane Gallery. Making slides from digital files to complete this process ranks as an extremely silly thing I've done for the sake of high art.

Continue reading "Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple of Utah" »

Posted by AT on March 10, 2005 10:14 PM |

More Glass & Architecture

glass building Salt Lake City Utah

The old American Stores building, SLC

Right after I finished with these shots, the yellow Wells Fargo sign at the top of the buiilding came on and changed everything. Another candidate for the B&W series on glass & architecture

Posted by AT on March 10, 2005 7:58 AM |

Glass & Architecture

blue glass architecture building Salt Lake City Utah

Downtown SLC

For a workshop at the Salt Lake Art Center, I'm pulling together shots on the theme of Glass & Architecture from my collection of "waiting to see the light of day" negs and files. I have images from Paris, Sydney, Auckland and Perth, and I wanted one from SLC. Here's one I'm considering, taken Saturday night with the new 12-24 DX lens. I scouted this shot the weekend before, and knowing I couldn't make the picture I imagined without the new lens is what broke the bank. It's supposed to be a good thing, to pre-visualize, but no one ever mentioned the expense.

Posted by AT on March 8, 2005 6:45 PM |

Another victory

gymnast balance beam

A.B Eberle, team co-captain, senior leads the Red Rocks to another victory

Most Utah gymnastics meets are civilized one-on-one matches where we alternate with the visitors on every event, and the spectators can see every competitor's routine. On Friday, the Utes hosted a quad match, which means all events are going on simultaneously. R did a great job keeping up with the score during the events, and the fans around us appreciate it. Utah prevailed (197.425) over No. 6 Florida (196.450), Stanford (196.025) and California (191.500). It was really fun to have Trish join us.

Shot with the new bank-breaking 70-200 VR, worth every one of the vast number of pennies. I have never regretted spending money on vacation or for better toys, but I have later regretted cheaping out on stuff - not this time.

Posted by AT on March 6, 2005 6:25 PM |