I really need to get back into this a little bit more than once a month. I kept thinking about this challenge that P.J. threw out for this month - Smile - and I couldn't think of anything that might be different. I didn't see any kinds of random smiles on the road, or anything like what you see on the front of the train at the end of the Silver Streak movie.
I did, however, take some portraits of some of my family members on Easter Sunday, and while the shot of me, I technically didn't take as my wife pushed the shutter on the remote, I set the whole thing up so I'm counting it as well.
Here's my five photos of smiles.
1. My baby sister.
Now, here's where the story gets longwinded. Every year, for as long as I can remember, my two sisters and I give my parents a calendar with photos of all of the family members on it throughout the year. Last year, we had a hard time getting together enough shots of my sister and her two boys, so every time we're together, I take as many shots as possible so we'll have plenty for next year. Mom and Dad, if you're reading this, expect to see this one next Christmastime.
2. My dad.
My dad turned 80 on Christmas Eve. A lot of people say I look like my dad. I've actually seen the resemblance in one photo of my two sister and myself. My youngest sister (above) and me have my dad's nose, while my middle sister has my mom's nose. I've also shown people several other photos of my family and every time the comment is always the same. "You look like your dad." I guess I see it but I'm probably too close to the subject to really tell for sure. What I do know is my dad has never lost his smile in photos. For the most part, his smile is the same, it's constant and always makes him look good. My mother-in-law used to say I had my dad's smile, but lately I feel like I'm forcing my smile. I used to think I never took a bad picture, but lately I've not liked any of the photos of myself. Perhaps I'm picky, but at least I know I don't have to say that about my father. Every shot of him always seems to be a good one, even the ones where he frowns.
3. My mom.
I don't dislike this photo, but I think there are better shots of my mom out there, but for this challenge, it has to be shots taken during the month of April to count, so I'll not twist the rules just to post a better photo of her. The hard part of getting to take photos of people, especially when you're the recognized picture taker in the family is everyone expects you to take a great shot every time. So when I want to take shots, I have to take them quick, because no one really has a lot of patience to spend any kind of time for me to get that really great shot. I can see all sorts of things that are wrong with this shot, from the focus to the lighting. Yet, when I've posted it, I've gotten nothing but positive comments about it. Either people are trying to be nice about the quality of the shot or I've just become too particular about what I think is a really good shot nowadays. I guess this is a good thing, since it means I must be starting to become a better photographer.
4. My wife.
I've discovered the trick with taking photos of my wife. She's very much like her dad in that she's either very self conscious about her photo being taken, or she doesn't like her photo to be taken. I think it's the former, because she seems to be a willing subject for me in quite a lot of my shoots, but getting a natural smile on her seems to be very tough to do, so I have to catch her in moments, almost candidly. She knew I was taking her photo for this one, but I also told her to just keep talking with my sister while I took the shots. I have to admit I'm the luckiest man in the world. I've said this before, and I'll probably say it again, but I don't know why she puts up with me sometimes, but I'm very grateful that she said yes on Valentine's day many years ago.
5. #GlobalSelfie
I set this shot up on Earth Day this year. I had to get three different sets of shots before I was finally pleased with an image. As I noted above, I used to be very satisfied with almost every shot that was taken of me. Each year when we'd get our school photos taken at work, I was always pleased with them, but about 5 years ago or so, all that seemed to vanish. Needless to say, most of the shots of me over the past three years have been selfies, because I don't like the ones that the professional photographers take at our picture days. Anyway, NASA was sponsoring a Global Selfie day on Earth Day this year and I decided to participate. I haven't seen any final product produced by all of the selfies taken by people that day, but I'll keep checking back.
Well, there you have it. Five smiles for the month of April. Please go to P.J.'s page and check out some of the other bloggers who've participated in this challenge this month to see how they interpreted the word Smile. I'm sure it will be more imaginative that what I came up with.
Oh, and could someone give me a quick kick in the butt every now and then and ask me why I'm not writing more on this blog. If someone were to do that, I'm sure I could post more than once a month.
"One is the loneliest number number that you'll ever do. Two, can be as bad as one. It's the loneliest number since the number one." My favorite bad when I was in junior high school was Three Dog Night. I had most of their albums and knew most of the lyrics to most of their songs.
This month's photo blogging challenge by theme, P.J., is One. To be honest, I really hadn't thought much about this until a couple of days ago, but when I looked back at the shots I'd taken this month, I came up with quite a few One shots. As I write this, I'm still debating which of the seven original shots I've picked to use in challenge. Whatever I pick, I'll warn you ahead of time, the last shot might make you cringe if you haven't already seen this on Facebook or Flicker.
1. The first weekend in March, I went on a nice 3.5 mile hike in the foothills behind me. The trail too me up into the hills off to the right of this shot and then back down behind me to this level portion of the Thompson Creek Trail. The last part was a nice level walk back to the car, nothing too tough on the legs. I found 9 geocaches on the hike as well, so it was a very successful trek. Having your camera out all the time allows you to take candid shots like this.
2. Most of you know I geocache. In fact, I've started to geocache a lot recently, so almost every one of my shots seems to have a geocaching tag attached to it nowadays. It's what I love about this silly game. It gets me outdoors to all sorts of interesting spots.
Last weekend, my friend and I took a day trip down to San Diego. We were working on a challenge cache that challenges people to find 10 caches of a similar type. The catch is you have to find 7 different types, 10 times. Fortunately not all at the same time as that would be ridiculous, but this day, we were working on virtual caches.
From the geocaching website: "A Virtual Cache is about discovering a location rather than a container. The requirements for logging a Virtual Cache vary—you may be required to answer a question about the location, take a picture, complete a task, etc... In any case, you must visit the coordinates before you can post your log. Although many locations are interesting, a Virtual Cache should be out of the ordinary enough to warrant logging a visit."
We were trying to find 10 virtual caches (we found 11 that day). This virtual cache took us out along a beach south of San Diego to look at a naval communication set up. We couldn't get really close, but we got out on a rocky jetty to take a shot of the installation and on the way back I got this shot of this one Marbled Godwit looking for food along the shoreline.
3. As we worked out way around San Diego Harbor, we were very fortunate to have been there on a such a beautiful day. The temperature was in the high 70s most of the day with a slight breeze blowing. It was perfect for sailing as this one lone sailboat showed while we were looking for the answers for this virtual cache which was located on Shelter Island on the northwest side of the harbor. We were looking for a marriage proposal that someone had sent to his girlfriend by way of those engraved bricks. It was actually pretty clever and we enjoyed the time we spent there looking at the sailboat and other boats that were out on the water. This particular cache ended up being our 8th virtual find for the day.
4. Finally, in La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya), we found out 10th virtual cache of the day. We actually ended up with one more virtual just to the west of this particular shot, but we spent quite a bit of time right here, mainly because the weather was, once again, perfect for the day and there was a lot of great scenery around.
The gulls seemed to want to cooperate with me on this shot, although I would have preferred to have the waves splashing high on the rocks. I just kept my camera focused on the point and every now and then out of my peripheral vision, I could see solitary gulls float by. I caught this one gull flying over head and called it good.
To the right of this shot was as cove where there was a conglomeration of animals. There was a ledge that had nesting cormorants, and another where there were gulls and pelicans just sitting in the sun. Further down there were kayakers and snorkelers looking at the kelp growing in the cove and on several of the rocks, there were large congregations of sea lions basking in the late afternoon sun. I caught a sequence as two of them started to squabble over a particular spot and it only ended when one of them got pushed back into the water.
5. Finally, last Friday afternoon, a couple of friend and I went on a hike in Chino Hills State Park. You might not know exactly where the park is, but if I tell you it's within a couple of miles of where the 5.1 earthquake hit Friday night, you'll probably have a better idea.
We parked a car at one trailhead, then drove down to the other trailhead in Carbon Canyon and hiked up and over, finding 18 geocaches in the process. Near the end of our hike, we startled this nice sized rattlesnake from its siesta at the side of the trail. None of us got within striking distance, but it remained coiled up like this while we were in proximity to it.
I've encountered rattlesnakes while out hiking and geocaching in the past, but I've never seen one quite this color before. Most of the ones I've seen are usually a much darker color, almost blackish, with a diamond pattern on their back. Based upon what I've been able to find on-line, this one is either a Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake or a Panamint Rattlesnake.
There's my five "Ones" for this photo blogging challenge. Please stop by P.J.'s page to see how others interpreted the theme One. As always, feel free to comment. Don't worry, I won't bite.
My doctor this week asked me what I do for exercising and I told him hiking, although I don't do enough of it. I also told him I was going hiking this weekend in Chino Hills State Park.
I've been up there a couple of times in the past and I'd actually forgotten about one of my hiking trips up there. I remember the hike, just didn't remember exactly where I'd been. Now I know. But I digress.
For this of you who do any kind of hiking, you know you can encounter just about anything out there. I've seen deer, bobcats, lizards, butterflies and tarantulas while out on the trail. Most of you already know too, that when I say hiking, I also mean geocaching. They are kind of synonymous with me.
About the two scariest things that I've encountered while out geocaching are a mountain lion and rattlesnakes. Please note the "S" on the end of rattlesnakes. I've encountered more than one.
The mountain lion was seen in San Dimas canyon after a great walk back there to pick up a fantastically put together geocache called Curiouser and Curiouser. As we were standing at the trailhead after a successful completion of finding the cache, I noticed what looked like a coyote up the trail walking toward me.
As soon as I said, "Hey, look at the coyote up there," something told me there was something wrong with that coyote. I couldn't put my finger on it until it made a left hand turn into the bushes and we saw the long sleek tail. That wasn't a coyote, but a mountain lion walking toward us. Since it was near dusk, we all decided that it would be a good thing if we headed out as quickly as we could and get back to our car. Because of the light, I never did get a photo of the cat.
Yesterday, while out hiking in Chino Hills, I saw my sixth rattlesnake. My friend was leading our group by about 10 yards or so ahead of us when we heard the distinctive rattle of this snake's tail. There's always a little adrenal rush when you hear that, but my friend did a little jig and backed away quickly and the snake stopped rattling, although it never did uncoil and totally relax after that. From what I've been able to find on-line, this one was either a Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake or a Panamint Rattlesnake. I've never seen one quite this color before.
Anyway, this is more of a public service announcement, more than anything else today. With the weather getting warmer, encounters with snakes will become more common. Be careful out there. As a ranger once told me at Yellowstone National Park, "If you cause an animal to stop and alter its normal routine, you're too close to the animal." We kept a safe distance between us and the snake, snapped a couple of shots and then left it in peace. Let's hope all animal encounters by you are like this one.
It's been awhile since I've written. Things have gotten in the way, so it's an easy excuse. Shakespeare club took a lot of my time and we're gearing up for all sorts of end of the year activities at school - yeah, our school year ends on May 29th, so we need to start preparing for those things now. Oy.
Even my photography has taken a back burner. I've been able to get out a couple of times, but not on a daily basis. I knew this would happen, but I didn't think there'd be an entire week where I wouldn't pick my camera up at all.
I've been on Spring Break now for 5 days and this is the first day where I can honestly say, I don't have anything to do right now, so I can either go out and take some shots, or write a short blog. Blog won out this time and I suspect that I'll be outside taking photos as soon as this gets posted.
And now that brings me to the reason why I took this photo. Have you ever had one of those days where your brain just doesn't process information very well? I've had quite a few of those days, but most recently last night. We had a power failure last night - my wife was not amused as she was in the middle of grading papers. The power failure caused my brain to think weirdly, which I'm sure most of you might have done something similar.
So here I am, sitting in the dark because my computer screen has just gone blank, and it's really dark in here. My initial thoughts are, "I need to get the candles out." So I get up and then my immediate reaction is to walk over to the light switch to turn the light on. Yeah, talk about an incongruent moment. I think some or our basic stuff we take for granted are so ingrained into our psyche, that we don't really think about them even when they aren't available to us.
I knew the lights weren't going to work, yet I went over to turn the lights on anyway. So, I got the candles, lit them up and my wife decided that she'd rather wash the dishes by candlelight as opposed to grading papers. I think the lights were out for a grand total of five minutes or so, so it really wasn't a major in convenience at all. We lost power for two days once due to a windstorm. That was inconvenient as well, but I'm sure there are other places that have a lot worse, so I'll not complain.
And so dear reader, if you choose to comment below, tell me a story where your brain went haywire like mine did last night. I'd love to hear your stories.
So it occurs to me that I need to blog more often than once a month. My last post was for this same photo blogging challenge on the theme new. This one is on the theme red. The photos I posted for last month's theme, I thought were rather good, yet I only received 2 comments about them. It's kind of disheartening when that happens which may be a contributing factor in me not writing more.
The other reason is February has been an incredibly busy month for me. I participate in our school's Shakespeare club and our performance happens this Wednesday during school hours and then again on Thursday evening. Seeing middle school kids memorize Shakespeare has always been amazing, even more so when I get involved in the process and it takes me forever and a day to get all of my lines down.
But on to this month's theme - RED
I really haven't thought about the theme that much this past month (Sorry P.J.), but when I looked at my shots I came up with six that I think will work quite well with the theme, so here we go.
1. "K" Line
A couple of weeks ago on the 365 project, I was pushed to take a shot of some real live trains. I'd been posting shots of the model trains when I went to the Great American Train Expo in January and my push partner wanted me to think bigger. Coming home from a geocaching trek out in the desert, I stopped at this overpass in Colton, as it's right on the edge of a huge rail yard next to Interstate 10. This shot ended up being one of the ones I posted for that particular challenge. Many people at 365 weren't quite sure if it was a real shot or if it was another model train shot. I assure you, these trains are huge, nothing that any of us could pick up by hand.
2. Monorail Red
Back when I was in college, I worked at Disneyland. It was one of those great summertime jobs that worked out well with my schedule while I was in college. People always ask me where I worked when they find out I worked there.
I worked on the Davy Crockett Explorer Canoes, Mike Fink Keel Boats, worked one Christmas and New Year's on Pirates of the Caribbean and the last summer I was there, I worked on the Monorails.
Each ride had its own special appeal and you had a different thought process with each ride. Someone asked me once if I ever went back to work at the park, which ride would I go to and without hesitation, I would choose the canoes. I don't think I really appreciated it at the time, but when you think about it, there's not too many places and/or jobs where you can get an 8 hour workout and get paid for doing it.
When we went to the park a couple of weeks ago, I told them I had worked on the monorails and they asked whether I wanted to see the new look of the cockpit. I'd driven the old Mark III monorail and this was the much improved Mark VII. The driver now has the ability to go through an array of video displays keeping tabs on each riding compartment, including a rear display. One time when I was driving, the train ahead of me broke down and I had to park my train over the motor boat cruise for about 20 minutes or so while they tended to the train in front of me. Those cameras would have come in handy since one of the guests inside my train decided to jump out. I'll never understand why people will do such stupid things in order to "save" themselves five or ten minutes of time.
3. The Happiest Place on Earth
As noted above, we went to Disneyland over President's Day weekend. My daughter flew down with her friend and she took me to Disneyland for my birthday. Needless to say, it was one of the best trips I've had to the park in recent memory. When we first entered into the park, we headed over to City Hall, so I could get my birthday badge, which I wore proudly the entire day. I don't care how old you are, it's always nice to get birthday greetings from total strangers. I started to seek out other people who share my day and wished them a Happy Birthday as well. I don't think I should be that amazed in once sense, but it was quite fun to notice all the people who share my birthday.
Later on, the younger set decided they all wanted some kind of hat to commemorate the occasion and a stop at the Mad Hatter's shop next door to Alice in Wonderland was in order. Both my daughter and her friend got matching Minnie Mouse ears that they wore proudly throughout the rest of the day. My son bought a Peter Pan hat and later in the day a small child even called him Peter Pan.
4. Upland Station
Last weekend, I took the Metrolink train into Union Station on a reconnaissance mission. At school, I run a photo club and the teacher across the hallway runs an art club. We've talked about taking a field trip into downtown Los Angeles on the train for both clubs and we wanted to scout out locations ahead of time. Since the plan was to leave from the Upland station, we met here Saturday morning. While I was waiting for her to arrive, I walked around and took some photos, catching this one of the station and the light clouds in the sky. I thought the red tile roof worked as a nice color contrast to the rest of the shot. I submitted this shot and the Monorail Red shot to the Yahoo weather app as well, but neither one was accepted.
5. Go for Broke Monument
Located in the Little Tokyo district in downtown Los Angeles, the Go for Broke Monument highlights the contributions of all Nisei veterans of World War II. Most of these veterans were interred in concentration type camps for the duration of the war, yet still felt the need to enlist and serve their country of birth, the United States of America.
The memorial includes the names of all who served with the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service (MIS), 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 232nd Combat Engineer Company, and the 1399th Engineer Construction Battalion.
Old Glory just looked awesome from this angle. I almost wished I'd brought my wide angle lens along on this trip, but I think this shot worked out well, even though it's kind of tight overall.
Well, that's another month of shots posted for the theme. Please stop by P.J.'s blog to see other takes on the same thing by wonderful photographers. And, once again, please comment below. I really won't bite.
This should have been posted yesterday, but things got in the way, so here's my take on the theme New, as posted in P.J.'s blog. At first, I thought this was going to be an easy theme, but there aren't as many new things as you might think, so I'm taking a leap here in my interpretation of the word New.
1. New Lens - This was my Christmas present from my wife this year, but it wasn't purchased until after the new year and so I didn't take this photo until after the new year, so the photo was taken during the month. This year, I've decided to try a 365 project again after taking about 7 months off just to recharge my brain with regard to photography.
In 2011 I started a 365 project and did two full years of pure 365. I got my camera out each and every day and took photos and posted at least one to the 365 webpage. The work wasn't always quality, because there was a drive to make sure I used the camera every day. This year, my project already has some fillers in it, but I'm trying to post real quality work. I'm also using my Prime 50mm lens exclusively at the moment, mainly because I'm trying to learn as much as I can about the lens. So far, I'm really enjoying the lens and have been taking lots of photos with it.
The learning curve hasn't taken as long as I thought it might and I feel very comfortable with the lens. I've been shooting mostly in aperture mode mainly because I can. The one selfie I took so far was really interesting to see that lens open wide with a 1.4 aperture. I can't remember the last time I've seen a lens open that wide.
2. Grow Old with Me
This sounds like a contradiction in terms as far as the theme goes, but with this new lens, I decided to create a new series of shots, based upon a central theme. The theme ended up being my wife's hands and the words, Grow Old with Me, My Love. All of the shots were in B&W or sepia tone, and all of the shots thus far have depicted her hands doing regular things that she does on a fairly regular basis.
Some of the shots, like this one, had to be staged, as it's not too practical to give someone a hug and also take a photo at the same time. So far, I've posted 6 shots on my Flicker page for this series. I have one more shot that I'd like to take before I end this particular series. I'm not sure if I'll end up taking more after that or not, but it can be open ended, so I probably will if I see something that I know will work with the series.
3. How's the weather outside?
In December, I became aware of a group on Flicker called Project Weather. To be honest, I can't remember if I became aware of it, because one of my shots was invited to the group, or I just stumbled upon it, but I would suspect the latter happened. Either way, I joined the group and downloaded this new app (well, new for me anyway) - Yahoo Weather.
It's a standard weather app, but it takes photos matched geographically and weatherwise as the cover shots for any location. In other words, if you're searching for the weather in San Francisco, when you pull up the San Francisco page, you should get a photo of somewhere in San Francisco which also depicts the weather for San Francisco at the time.
I started submitting some of my weather shots figuring I might get a couple in there. I've been very surprised because I now have 19 shots in the queue for various locations around the United States. Of those 19 shots, I've actually seen 6 of them show up for the weather places that I follow. Yeah, I'm a geek, I love weather and I have all the places where I've had photos taken come up in rotation in the Yahoo Weather app. I did a screen capture of this shot in the weather app in mid January on my iPad. I took that shot a couple of years ago on my way to work one morning. Here's a link to all of my shots that are in the Project Weather database for inclusion in the Yahoo Weather app. No payment for any of them, but my name and a link to my Flicker page appears on the photo when it shows up in the app.
4. New Trail
Like many of the bloggers who do this photo challenge, I also geocache. Last weekend, I went with a friend of mine down into Riverside County to hike in Harford Springs Wildlife Sanctuary. This was a new trail for me, one that I had never been on before.
The park is crisscrossed with many hiking trails and there are about 15 to 20 geocaches scattered throughout the park. Up until this past weekend, I was totally unaware this park even existed. We took several of the trails and looped around the park getting about half of the cache available to us before we started losing the light. All that means is I'll have to go back another time to find the rest of the caches hidden there and explore the other areas of the park.
That's the real reason I got involved with geocaching in the first place. I know about the Congress Trail in Sequoia National Park and I know about the John Muir Trail and the Mist Trail in Yosemite National Park. I've hiked on the Pacific Crest Trail and have read accounts about hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Those are major trails that most everyone knows about. Geocaching will take you there as well, but geocaching also gets you out on the trails in your own backyard. I now hike regularly in Claremont Wilderness Park. Before geocaching, I didn't even know that park existed. Were Harford Springs Park closer, I probably would hike in it on a regular basis. I took this shot at the trail head just as we were starting our hike. The first geocache we found was just up the hill beyond the fence post on the right hand side of the shot.
5. A new appreciation for the art of PhotoShop
A couple of days ago, I happened to step outside for some reason and realized we were getting a spectacular show outside, one that had to be recorded.
This shot was taken looking over my neighbor's fence from my back yard. The problem with this shot is there are several telephone wires that criss cross down to our neighbor's house. When I first pulled the shots up on my computer I loved what I saw, but I didn't like the telephone wires. So I decided that I was going to PhotoShop them out of the shot.
I have gained an entire new appreciation for people who do this all the time. The patience and skill required to go through and pixel by pixel remove something that you don't want and then blend in what you've cloned to remove it in the first place takes a lot of time. I think this photo represents more hours of work than any other I've taken.
For an idea of what the scene looked like originally, here's a shot I took in January 2011 from about the same vantage point. With the first shot, I had a wider lens, not the prime I'm using now, so the telephone pole to the right was already cropped out of the scene, but you can still see the wires and the antenna I removed from this shot.
I realize that some people will now look down their nose at anything I post because it's probably not a true image. If that's the case, so be it, but my goal is to produce great shots, not mediocre shots. I think this shot is much better than the shot I took in 2011. If PhotoShop helped, then I'm all for it.
Well, that's my interpretation of the theme New for this month's blogging challenge. Please stop by P.J.'s page to see how other people interpreted the same word.
Please feel free to comment about anything you read here. I really won't bite.
This post will probably ramble, so if you want to stop reading now, that's OK with me. Sometimes, I can't even read other people's rambles. The title of this blog is A Photo a day. The actual URL reads a photoortwoaday because aphotoaday was already taken on Blogger. Not like that really matters because I had high hopes when I first started and then life got in the way.
For example, it's been 16 days since my one and only post for this year. I could make excuses and say I've been busy playing with my new lens and that would be partially true. But I'm not sure it's that honest. True, I have been doing a lot of different things but one of them has been playing computer games. Yeah, I've set up our old computer in the back bedroom and all three of us (the boys of the family) have been using the computer to play various games.
So I've gotten lazy if we want to be perfectly honest and I need to get away from that. I've actually been timing myself on the "gaming" computer and trying to limit myself to an hour at a time. That doesn't always work, but it's a start in the right direction. Some might say a better start would be to not play games at all. Yeah, well there's that, but I find computer games entertaining and relaxing.
But to get back to my photo a day project. Three years ago, I started a photo project called 365. The purpose was to get people to go out and try and take a photo every single day for an entire year. Well, I succeeded in that endeavor and continued on for a second straight year. 730 days later, I posted my first "filler" shot, a shot not taken on that particular date.
I started a third year on January 1st, 2013, but it eventually ran out of steam sometime in May of that year. I couldn't keep up a pace of a photo a day, nor did I want to at that point, so I quit. I had personal reasons for starting the project in 2011 and those reasons didn't exist anymore, so it was time to let go of the 365 Project. But, in case you haven't been paying close attention, I've decided to start up the 365 project again.
It's a little bit more loose fitting in that I won't be adhering to the photo taken on that date. I want my shots to be quality shots. I say that as I posted a photo of my spaghetti sauce cooking on the stove for today's shot, taken with an iPad and not my regular camera. Don't ask, it's just a long story. However, most of the shots I've taken and posted so far this year, I feel are quality shots, which is what I'm aiming for this year.
Every year I put together a calendar for my parents and my father-in-law. My parent's calendar is easier from a photographic standpoint because my two sisters get two thirds of the calendar and I get the other third, so finding enough family photos for four months is pretty easy. Finding family photos for an entire year is a little more difficult, especially when one person isn't highly represented.
Because my wife works longer hours than I do, she's harder to get into photos, so I've made a concentrated effort to get her into more photos. I've even started a series of photos entitled "Grow Old with Me." Each of these so far have just featured her hands. I'll probably include other shots in this series that feature more than just her hands, but for now, please enjoy these three from the series.
My favorite singer, John Denver, wrote a song to his wife Annie. I can't write music, but I can take photos. This series is Marsha's Song.
