Solstice 2008
G’day Everyone and a joyful, fulfilling, and positively memorable 2009 to all of you.
I read somewhere that the number of Christmas cards one gets every year can portend how many people might attend one’s funeral. Bah humbug! Cheryl and I don’t send out Christmas cards and what you sow, so shall you reap. If the number of cards hanging over our front doorway is any indication of the size of my future funeral, than I’d like to thank that person, in advance, for showing up and would they please make sure that the camera clutched in my cold hands is on aperture priority, ISO 400, and the flash is set to fill flash, -1 stop. That ought to be about right.
Sorry, I don’t mean to bring grim tidings but I’m turning 55 tomorrow and, well, mortality is bearing down on me. Now, when I pick up my guitar and sing Bruce (Utah) Phillips’s plaintive lyrics, “Each year is like a rolling freight train and cold as starlight on the rails.” I can actually feel the rumble of the train in the pit of my stomach. I trust it’s a distant rumble; I have many miles to cover and goals to reach before the fire in my boiler goes out.
B&O Centennial Slips Through Seal Cove Tunnel
on our ceiling layout. All but the sky and moon are real. As for the sleigh and reindeer, that depends on whether you believe.
Canon EOS -1D Mark II N with Canon 300mm f/2.8 L USM lens
4″ at f/16, ISO 400, 550EX Speedlight on full bounced off white ceiling
evaluative metering, aperture priority
Gitzo G1340 with Wimberley head & cable release
Quite frankly, I prefer to stay in touch throughout the year. I look forward to writing this blog as much as I enjoy planning my field work. Hearing from of those of you who receive these missives is as fulfilling as getting a good shot. Really.
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