This is the one and only Johnny Marr, guitarist for The Smiths.
A guitar hero of mine, is Johnny. I got to meet him in November of 2013 and he was lovely. I took lots of photos that night and this is one of them.
So why am I posting it today? I don’t know. It has nothing to do with anything from today except that I posted it on my Instagram account today for again, no apparent reason.
Here’s Johnny!
In all honesty, there’s not much to say about today.
It’s just another beautiful day…
My son and I worked hard in the yard today.
I have a top level in my backyard that is covered in ivy and vines. I want to clear it all out and put in wildflowers and trees.
So far, so good…
I found out last night after my class that a dear childhood friend of mine had died suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday.
His name is Eric, and I’ve known him since I was 6 years old. I won’t lie–it hit me hard. He’s only a few days older than I am, and that of course is hard to think about. But harder still is that I lost someone who was a constant in my youth, someone who was always positive, kind, and encouraging. We hadn’t seen each other in over a year, but every time that we did see each other, we picked right back up where we left off. He was an important part of my childhood friendship circle, and I will miss him dearly.
I shed many tears last night and today.
As I often do, I processed my feelings through my camera. It was a busy day, starting off with working half a day, then driving to Asheville to pick up my daughter, making it back in time to swing by Sawtooth, going to the gallery hop (I have 4 photos in a new gallery show at Delurk), grabbing some dinner, and then heading home.
My sadness over Eric’s death stayed with me, as it will for some time. I am okay with grief, though. To me it serves as a reminder of love.
The photos I took today carried me through lots of emotions…
Another cold, rainy day today, with the threat of icy weather ahead.
I don’t mind…I just hope it doesn’t cancel my class tonight for a THIRD week in a row!
Two odd self-portraits for you today.
One is my reflection in a photo of a horse that I had previously taken. The other is my work-boot-clad foot shot through my car’s steering wheel.
I love teaching studio photography classes.
Tonight I started my new one, Vintage Glamour Photography. We’ll have 4 different models, all shot in the style of classic photographers like Edward Steichen and Richard Avedon, two of my favorites.
I used my new Fuji X-T1 for some of the shots, and I wasn’t sure how it was going to work out in a fast-paced studio environment without a tripod. The way our classes go, we have to manually set our cameras and lighting to handle 10 people shooting at once in low light without the aid of a tripod. So all of these shots are on the fly, fast and awkwardly shot dodging other people and slipping in when I can. Working this way really helps me to focus on my technique and my aperture and shutter speed settings.
The Fuji is slower than my Nikon D800, but did well, as evidenced by this first photo. I shot in black & white only with the Fuji, trying to keep the vintage feel.
Here are a few shots from tonight’s shoot featuring the lovely Abrea.
I had my colonoscopy today.
Oddly enough, it was a wonderful day. The procedure went well and Tony had to come with me to drive me home. They only found a small polyp during the procedure and removed it, the anesthesia went well and was brilliant, and it was comforting to me to know that Tony would be there when I woke up.
He drove me home and I rested at his apartment for the rest of the day, and had my first solid food in nearly 48 hours!
The first two photos are of my drive to Tony’s before the procedure. There was an eerie mist this morning, and I was quite nervous at this time. The second photo is when Tony was driving me home after the procedure. There was a big “T” in the sky, which I thought was quite a perfect nod to Tony and what he means to me. The last photo is what I saw all day from the bed as I lay about.
Wonderful days can happen when you least expect them…
Today was not much fun.
If any of you have had a colonoscopy, you know that prep day is far worse than the procedure itself. I had to stay home today and drink only liquid and laxatives.
By the end of the day, I had lost 7 pounds and was exhausted!
My only photo of the day was of my drinking bottle, which I had to keep filling…
It’s my last day of eating normally for the next two days…
so I’m just going to relax and enjoy myself. Tomorrow I have to start prepping for my colonoscopy on Monday, so I had better enjoy the day while I can!
Mid-Century Me 