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Do I disappear?
(Everything But The Girl – Single)
M Ward @ Peace & Love 2012
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"The little things you say and do
make me want to be with you"
How can you argue with that?
M Ward - Rave On
I’ll never know if I go to sleep
Things I have loved I am allowed to keep
I’ll never know if I go to sleep
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Flowers – Regina Spektor
The sweet caresses of May
For those who still can recall
The desperate colors of fall
The sweet caresses of May
Only in poems remain
Homemade Sushi with mock-sushi appetizer and dessert
Appetizers made to look like sushi
These were real successful. Peeled tomato wedges on a bed of cottage cheese and bread balls
Real sushi, homemade
Mock-sushi dessert: Ice cream wrapped in pancakes dyed to look like seaweed.
Random, Bokeh shaping, random
Started playing with a make-shift light box one afternoon..
My sons dump truck
My favorite lens right now
SB-700, getting an external flash is an eye-opener. So much more to work with. So much more to learn.
My wedding ring
More bokeh shaping… still have a too-large mask which the aperture cuts off..
This is just random
10 great albums from 2011
Getting this out there a little late, I know. But I’ve been really busy trying to be a dad and also trying to be an engineer. I wish I had listened to more albums of 2011. I’ve been trying to catch up now in January, so if I were to wait with doing this list its likely it would change. But but, that’s neither here nor there. On with the list! (Oh, and I haven’t bothered rating them. They’re all great.)
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
You shouldn’t be surprised since it’s my favorite artist and this latest album was awesome. I would've included the live album unless I counted it a little unfair since some of the songs are the same.
Veronica Maggio - Satan i Gatan
I feel like I should say I’m embarrassed to put this commercially successful pop-princess among my top 10. But I am not. I think it’s a stellar album with a nice mix of happy and sad, both feeling equally real and relatable. Lovely voice. Nice production by Christian Waltz.
I will say it’s not as shockingly amazing as the debut, but its fantastic.
Bright Eyes - The People's Key
It’s all in the first guitar riff. Love the Bright Eyes.
Jonathan Coulton - Artificial Heart
The wonderfully hilarious and nerdy JoCo is doing it for real this time. I [artificial heart] this one!
Florence and the Machine – Ceremonials
Massive, grand, stunning.
A new discovery for me, singer/songwriter Dan Mangan is a welcome addition to my stable of guitar playing males.
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix
BBC change it up and although it sounds very different from Flaws, its another really satisfying release.
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Swedish sensation. Saw her live as well in 2011 and love-love-loved it.
Well, honestly I havent listened to this as much as I would have wanted but I’m pretty sure it is one of my 10 favorites.
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If you want the whole list as a Spotify playlist it’s HERE
So, had I been a more active listener in 2011 I think PJ Harvey and Tori Amos would have been included….
Now it’s time for daddy to clean-sleep-getup-gotowork
//Peace
More Bokeh Shaping…
Did a little bit more: You can see that the cutout was larger than the 1.8 aperture this time so the whole star doesn’t fit… Meanwhile, this is what I’m listening to mostly:
"It's not a real heart"
Bokeh shaping is fun!
Tried this thing I’ve recently come in contact with; shaping the out-of-focus light dots that show up when taking photographs. Simple enough as a first test, I just cut round pieces of black paper that fit onto the plastic lens shader on my nikkor 35mm 1.8. At the center I cut shapes, just by hand for this first test. See the results below. Some lessons learned are: the shape of the cutout is really what you get so If you want a “pretty” heart, better have a nice stencil and a sharp cutter. Mine look like shite.
Street light
Christmas lights
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