Spring Photo Contest : $100 1st Prize

I have a Spring photo contest at the new blog with a $100 prize.
Check it out!

An Article on The Light Project, St. Louis

Well, it has been a long time, but I do have a new piece in the new issue of Catapult about a current art installation in St. Louis. If you are in the area, I highly recommend going to it. Another image from my time at the installations is the masthead for the issue. There are also, of course, many other articles on the topic of community.
Here are some more images from the evening.

Winery Trip and “The Dream of the Rood”

This past Saturday I went to Stone HIll winery for a friend’s birthtday with 14 other friends. It would have been hard to top the day: the weather, the views, the fun, the friendship. I am sure people who know about wine might have some quibbles, but it was just fine for this newbie. Here are the pictures, click on the slideshow icon at the top right for larger and easier viewing.
Also, the very picture I was taking, whilst coming in for some gentle mockery in this post, is below. It reminded me of “The Dream of the Rood,” though I have no memory of whether they talk of vines in that poem. Well, it presented a nice image of the cross and Christ as the vine and communion, all rolled into one, for me at least.

Winery Trip and “The Dream of the Rood”

This past Saturday I went to Stone HIll winery for a friend’s birthtday with 14 other friends. It would have been hard to top the day: the weather, the views, the fun, the friendship. I am sure people who know about wine might have some quibbles, but it was just fine for this newbie. Here are the pictures, click on the slideshow icon at the top right for larger and easier viewing.
Also, the very picture I was taking, whilst coming in for some gentle mockery in this post, is below. It reminded me of “The Dream of the Rood,” though I have no memory of whether they talk of vines in that poem. Well, it presented a nice image of the cross and Christ as the vine and communion, all rolled into one, for me at least.

Dying, The Golden Days of Summer

Some Have Hat Head, Some Bad Hair Days…

…and then some of us wake up from naps with Hobbit hair.

Thursday, Near the Trailhead

20,000 Comes and Goes…

…that is 20,000 actuations of my shutter. At least that is what it is going by the numbering of my pictures. I am not sure whether pictures which are taken and immediately deleted on the camera are counted in the numbering or not. I am guessing not. At any rate, the old, or not so old, xti has rolled over 9999 twice as of yesterday. Calculating from May 23, 2007 that averages to….wait for it…43 pictures taken a day, which, when broken down like that, does not seem all that impressive after all. Still.

Chicago, Chicago

Some times when I have taken a lot of pictures of an event or trip, the burden of sorting through them and weeding and deleting gets to be burdensome to me, and so I put it off and put it off and put it off. You get the idea. So it is only now that I am posting pictures of a trip I took with several friends to the Windy City, home of the juggernaut Chicago Cubbies.
I don’t know, but Chicago might be a great place to live (I think I could even manage the brutal cold); I know it is a great place to visit. Our trip and our pictoral chronicling of it (yes, I did not take all the pictures) begins on the wee hours of Saturday morning driving through Illinois farmland… takes a stop at Crackea, er, Ikea…hits up the wonderful Clark Street…swings by a very lively Wrigleyville where the Cardinals were thumping the Cubs for a change (make sure to look for the classic shot where a Cubbie fan disrespects Nathan’s T-shirt)…meanders down the lakefront, where it is proven that it is good to have friends who are posers, er, who like to pose…then it is on to a hip coffee shop and pizza…then back to the lake front from a different perspective for more posing. Whew! Then to bed (check here for good hotel deals)…wake up…visit the amazing, big, shiny bean thingy and is amazing surroundings…zip up the Magnificent Mile…zip up the Hancock building (Hint: if you go up to the Signature Room and get an expensive drink or meal you can avoid the commercial elevator and still get a great view)…back down the Mile…drive aimlessly around the southside looking for Greek town (which happens to be right next to downtown…Opa!…more cornfields…then snoozing. Well, for some of us anyway. Some of us had to turn in grades the next day.
Well, enjoy! And, yes, this is after I deleted several hundred shots. Groan.
And, all kidding aside, I love it when friends graciously pose for me, either seriously or in frivolity..

After Paying the Ticket….Darn Street Sweepers!

Frigidaire