Here are a couple of Tina. Taken in her back yard. The grass was so green and lush that day.
Street Level Entrance in Back
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Photographer, observer, and rider of the concrete wave.
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Just a few miscellaneous photographs from the past couple weeks
I just saw a baby rabbit (3 inches long or less) hopping along outside my window…
…cutest thing ever.
SSLYBY
Last night I went to the SSLYBY show at the Outland Ballroom in downtown Springfield, MO and had an absolute blast. This was really the best test for my new camera and it performed admirably. I am more than satisfied with the results I had with it. Both still shots and video did amazingly well.
On a different note…The concert was AWESOME! Brightside, Berch, and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin all played and in that order. All three with different styles and all three enjoyable. I need to start listening to more live music again.
For those who don’t know it, these photos are of SSLYBY.
I had a time at a friend’s apartment the other night. He served sushi and drinks, played music, and I took photos. There was good conversation and laughter, especially when I used his track lights as makeshift studio lights.
The other night I met some nice people at The Albatross. I had been there with a friend when the two on the right showed up with nowhere to sit. I let them sit with me and shared the smoke with them while they shared their wine. After introductions and idle chit chat I come to find out that Phil is a member of a local band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and that the band will be in need of the services of a photographer soon. We agreed that perhaps this was fate and he told me he would talk to the other members of the band about allowing me that honor.
I can say in all honesty I hope they pick me to take their picture…I certainly think they should give me the opportunity anyhow.
Emma, Philip (Phil), and Grace
I had a photo shoot with a good friend of mine a week or so back. The point of the shoot was for him to leave with some good “publicity photos” for his musical career. I have to say, I really enjoyed this one since the whole time he was playing his guitar and singing nonsensical lyrics about what he had just seen or was currently looking at.
My Buddy Joe from some years back.
Cleaning and removal of no longer necessary items is a tough task. I have taken the initiative that only I can take and decided to clean my living space and throw away everything that I haven’t used in an extended period of time…
I am nearly half way to having what I need to leave where I am for somewhere else.
That is to say that I have almost half the money I need to leave for California and I think about it every day. I can’t help but be excited about the trip I will be taking, the things I will see, the people I may meet…
It is not that I don’t like it where I am now…not entirely. This place has many things to offer and many things I have here that I would not have anywhere else. It just doesn’t feed my creativity or my mind. I can’t help but think that it is stifling me, keeping me from being myself fully, not the me that I want anyway…it seems to bring out the worst of me. At the very least it is more difficult here to meet the people who would encourage me to be myself, this is not to say that anyone is trying to do the opposite though. This is a place to raise children and retire but not to live your whole life…I refuse.
Heading off to another day at work. Moving, temporarily, to another department.
birthday morning.
Woke up, opened the card my dad left for me on the kitchen counter (awesome card btw), took a shower, put on my favorite pair of jeans and found a twenty dollar bill in the right front pocket…yeah, so far this birthday is pretty great.
15% away from playing Red Faction: Guerrilla
