Set up the tripod in the pouring rain, framed the bush in the back yard with the neighbor floodlight and lit my foreground with a flashlight, and here we are.
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the dailypic 3793 yr11 141 And Scene
the dailypic 3774 yr11 122 Bird What Bird
Tastes like chicken.
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the dailypic 3752 yr11 100 Maurie Kasper
Maurie Kasper is a preemie, I even have his Birth Certificate and box, he has been bagged in a box for 34 years. He seems pretty small since he was born in 1986.
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the dailypic 3749 yr11 097 HBD LegoBoy
Nine years ago I made a random Lego figure, put him in a photo scene that ended up becoming Run LegoBoy Run. So I guess that makes it LegoBoy’s Birthday, and here were are.
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the dailypic 3746 yr11 094 This
One, thank you to all who reached out to tell me yesterday’s photos were not as bad as I sold them to be, it was very kind. I knew they were not bad. Just they were not the result I wanted. Two, tonight’s set is much closer but still not perfect, though I am happy with the results. I wanted the collisions. There is a lot of prep to this setup, then there is math, and the final piece is luck. Yesterday I had the setup, the math was not working, and without the right math, luck is useless. Tonight I got the math right. There are two drips to these shots. Drip one hits the water and creates the implosion, and then starts back upwards. The second drop is timed and sized to hit the stream from drop one head-on, causing the reaction, and add in the light has to trigger at the very moment they hit, freezing the motion, and all this is done in the dark. Now that those parts are lined up next, I want to play with the lighting, the background, and more light options. I take a lot of notes during these shots, the height of the dropper, size of the drops, delays in the drops, when the camera is triggered, where the focus point is, so I can build off each session. In the meantime, I will call this a success, but not done.
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the dailypic 3745 yr11 093 Disappointing Drip
I have no desire to show this to you. I only show it due to the time I wasted on it. As I left the barn frustrated with the whole set, I thought I would grab the camera and get a shot of the moon, and that would be the dailypic. But over an hour I spent on these damn drops. I knew what I wanted, and this is not it. I will admit to not being in the mood when I started the shoot. It takes a lot to set up, prep work, etc. I lost interest in the setup, but I was committed. I will do this again, and when it is right, I will share, and you will see why I am disappointed. Until then, here is the inferior product of my wasted time.
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the dailypic 3673 yr11 021 Red
I have been at Choate Park at least once for the last nine days straight. Town events, Senior Photos
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the dailypic 3655 yr11 003 Mr. Toad
Mr. Toad lives in the backyard, we have watched him grow over the last couple seasons. He and Argus are strange friends. At first I was concerned Argus would just eat him, but over time he is more curious than hungry. He looks for him when we go out, and if he is there like he was tonight, he will sit and stare a few feet away. Mr. Toad thinking he is invisible will stare back, and that is it, that is the base of the relationship. Staring. Then we go out again and he has moved on, and Argus will sniff everywhere to find him.
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the dailypic 3652 yr10 365 Ten Years or Day 3652 or Self-Eye
In ten years I have used 15 different cameras, multiple lenses, thousands of subjects, even 4 or so platforms to share, the only thing consistent in the dailypic is my eye. Excluding the occasional guest photographers posts (Thank you, Anna, Dan, Barbie
I missed capturing what I saw, so I decided to relearn, or more so, change tools. Put down the film, picked up a memory card. Went from Minolta to Nikon and it turned out my eye did not care. My vision was still there, simply the means to capture the light changed. So started the dailypic on October 1, 2009, one photo a day for I had planned a week, then a month, then until the end of the year… now today, I hit ten years. Over the last month, I have been compiling the photos to share on one page. 3652 photos, there are some really bad ones, there are less great ones and maybe most are good enough. Some are meant to share my day more than hang on a wall, some are art, all of them together are my history over the last decade. Like any portion of history, there is good and bad and it is for other to interprt.
Many times, specifically in the earlier years, I would debate if the project ended when September 30th came around. Last few less, at 7, 8, 9 years why would I stop this close to ten, a nice round number. So, here I am year ten complete and I have no desire to stop. Maybe one day it will, and that will be it, and that would be fine. I will always have ten completed. The exercise is part of my life, I do have days I stress over it, I have days I can not wait to share the photo, then there are those days I have convinced myself I am only doing this for me, in my head, there is no one on the other end. Even this post, I feel I am talking to me. The Dailypic was a great idea, a fun project and something I am incredibly proud of. I have a living diary, a time
Want to see more, well they are all below at the link, separated by year. I can see the growth, the evolution of my process and some are embarrassing to look back at now, some of the very ones that make me cringe I was so proud of at the time. At the least maybe this inspires someone. If there is something you want to get better at, just do it. Maybe ten years is excessive but I can tell you I am never looking for an excuse to do this, though now and then I am looking for an excuse to stop. As of now, I have not found a good enough excuse, so see you tomorrow for the
Thank you for looking.
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the dailypic 3644 yr10 357 Happy Trees
Another day up north. Tomorrow I will have the whole set of my Vermont trip. This is the only appearance of Bob Ross.
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the dailypic 3641 yr10 354 Sun Flower Setting
A little past peak on this one.
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the dailypic 3593 yr10 306 The SX-70
The Polaroid SX-70 is one of my favorite cameras. The design is so cool, collapses to a small brick, but when expanded, the lines are intriguing. It looks like it is never fully open. It was produced primarily in the ’70s, 1972 to 1981. I just found out today it was nationally released in the fall of 1973 – just like me. I have a few in my collection. This one is an SX-70 Alpha, and I have an SX-70 Sonar. Both were given to me recently for my mini camera museum I have in my studio. (Thanks Sean) When I was a kid, I read that they were used on the SkyLab by astronauts to document the sun. which fascinated me. My neighbor had one on his shelf, and I loved looking at it, he let me open and close it a few times – simple things to impress a kid.
The one below, well, that is a different story. A Kodak Disc 4000 camera, not the jewel of my collection and one of many Disc Cameras I have. I had this very model as a teenager. It was bad. The good news was it fit in your pocket, bad news people took it out and shot photos with it. I used this camera on my trip to Plimoth Plantation. I still have the prints they are just as bad now as they were then. I found online that the original price was listed at $66, there is no way my parents paid 66 dollars for this camera, so I am chalking that up to don’t believe the internet. The SX-70 went for $180 (over $1000 in today’s money), and in good shape, they are still worth decent cash. They have a huge cult following and can still be used with some very expensive film. The disc camera makes a very nice door stopper.
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