tim rice photo

hold•life•still

CONTACT TIM RICE PHOTO

Recent Posts

the dailypic 3647 yr10 360 Vermont View

by Leave a Comment

I spent a few days in Vermont, took a solo mini-vacation, me, my truck, cameras, drone, and my broken foot (yes I have a broken foot). Weather was OK, humid, some rain. Was during the week so it was quiet, not may tourists and leaf peepers. I had two goals, one I wanted to drive Rte 100, just one of my favorite roads and the subject of a similar road trip I took with a different car, much different film camera, no drone, and my feet were excellent, 25 years back. Two, I wanted 25 photos that could be postcards – the same goal I had last time. This was not about getting a ton of photos it was about getting the right photos. Three days I ended with a set of 50 that if I got chooser I am sure I widdle this down to 25 solid choices. The foot made me rethinking some actions, I am known for just heading to get the photo – over, under, around, whatever I need to to get to the spot I want – I will figure out how to get back later. The best example of that was from the first VT road trip, I parked the car on the side of the road, middle of nowhere. Saw a waterfall and slide down a very steep embankment to get to it. Took a couple of shots (Never really liked them after they were developed) and could not go back the way I came, it was too steep. Had to walk half a mile up stream to get to a spot I could access the road, then half a mile back down the road to get to the car, which was still running where I left it. This time, the drone did some of the hiking for me. Iceland will always be my favorite landscape to photograph, but until I get back there, I will always have Vermont to visit now and then.

tr/trp

the dailypic 3558 yr10 271 Leaving

by 2 Comments

I have a record of every day for nearly ten years with the dailypic, and I also have a really good memory for things I have done and dates. So when you know for over a decade that this has been the week the family has been on vacation, it kind of feels wrong when we are not. For the first time in a long time we did not take this week off. Kids are older; one does not even live in the house, she is working at school all summer, the other is looking for a job and getting ready for college. Things I have done on this week, rode a horse in Maine, explored Nova Scotia, left a kid at Busch Gardens (not the best bullet point on my parental resume), visited Rockport, enjoyed a cabin in NH a couple of times, chased waterfalls, ventured to Iceland, ate fish and chips with the most incredible view, watch Anna get eaten by mud, walked the Golden Gate Bridge, drove to the top of Mt. Washington with one then two dogs, took a cruise, and lived what I still refer to the best day I ever had. Today, less eventful and sad by comparison, I am sure the family vacations are not over, they just need to evolve.  That plane in the photo was flying over my house tonight, it triggered these thoughts, it is on it’s way to Italy (I can read the airline when I zoom in, Alitalia Airlines, full of families and soon to be memories, safe travels to them. 

tr/trp

 

the dailypic 3446 yr10 159 Soar

by 2 Comments

Until today I have photographed three Bald Eagles, one was at the Barnstable Faire as part of an exhibit in the 90’s, the second was at a zoo, the third was in a tree really far off in the distance, but I was excited because it was free and in the wild… I was sad because it was in Canada (nothing against Canada, just it’s an Eagle, and it was not in the US). Then today, I was driving to the dump – what we old people call the recycling center – and there it was, maybe 200 feet up just circling. I pulled over and happen to have the camera on the front seat,  I had just shot a 5K, the Shamrock Shuffle in Medway (click to see those photos), I am sure I was not even all the way over on the side of the road. Couple of shots and it flew off. I have been told it nests in the town, I look forward to seeing it again with the longer lens.

tr/trp

Check out more dailypics

Subscribe

Enter e-mail address and never miss a post!
CONTACT TIM RICE PHOTO
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox

Join other followers: