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1. k8, October 23, 2008:

   Did you do the chair one with that strangely effervescent shot that makes it look like a painting? I love those. The colors zing your eyeballs.

   And your daughter? The expressions of surprise to sleep show her zest for life.

   Is the pig for stooge?

2. Dingo, October 23, 2008:

   Are your floors (in pic 4) really that clean? Because as much as I love the picture of Girlfriend discovering Mama’s naughty photos (pic 1), I can’t tear my eyes away from the clean floor.

3. Crissy, October 24, 2008:

   Dingo, the floor really is that clean but don’t worry. The mirror behind it is filthy. It’s Girlfriend’s room and she really likes to give herself sloppy mirror kisses.

4. Ken, October 24, 2008:

   k8, yes.. that shot is what is called a tonemapped HDR photo. a bracket of multiple shots of the same scene is taken, each with a different exposure, and then combined into one picture that has wider dynamic range (ie, detail is preserved in both shadows and highlights that otherwise would have been out of the sensor’s capacity to capture with a single shot).

   during my post processing in photoshop i actually had to REDUCE the color saturation because it was just too much… (!)

   i love my daughter and think she’s special, but i don’t think ANY 3 year old lacks “zest for life.” lol they’re plenty zesty, all of them! laugh hard, cry hard, play hard, sleep hard. maybe we should learn from them instead of the other way around?

   dingo, the floors are that clean because right after we bought the house i worked my ass off ripping up carpets, stripping wood down with a drum sander, then a belt sander, then a random orbit sander, and finished it all off with three heavy coats of oil-based high gloss polyurethane. then i repeated the whole process in two other rooms (our bedroom and the dining room). i’m pretty good at floors now.

   (crissy did help with the carpet ripping. i’d like to get that in there before i get in trouble.)

5. stoogepie, October 28, 2008:

   Excellent shots as always.

   The first and last are like punctuation for the set. You start with Girlfriend’s unbridled energy and end with her asleep. She is beautiful in both and, in between those two shots are the details.

   The second shot is awesome. It’s not just a shot of a pig, but a shot of a pig being a pig. Is it a potbelly? Because it has a lot of muscle tone for a piglet, but it’s tiny.

   Were is not for the SUV in the background, I would have thought picture number six was an old shot that you had restored. The tuxes could be modern, but that’s a vintage Daimler Limo, no? The expressions on the kids are also vintage, meaning classic. They transcend time.

   I could go on. K8 is right about pic 4. The richness of the colors make it look like more than a photo. The images in the mirror have exaggerated shadows, which makes a statement all by itself. Meanwhile, the floor reflects both the actual subjects and the mirrored subjects.

   Great work all around. I really have spent days staring at these photos and I can’t think of a better way I might have spent that time.

6. melissa lion, October 28, 2008:

   Did I miss the post where you went to the live sex show? I’m very very confused. And excited. AND CONFUSED.

7. Ken, October 29, 2008:

   stooge:

   i don’t know what kind of pig it is. i am not an expert on the characteristics and nomenclature of pigs. i did find this site which seems to have lots and lots of pictures of pigs, but i haven’t had a chance to pore over it. it WAS a small pig. it made cute noises too.

   #6 is circa 1987. my friends eric and mark rented a limo for what was probably their first official school dance. such pimpin’! the expressions are the best part, by far. i think it’s pride and glee and awkwardness all wrapped into one.

   i actually took picture #4 some time ago, this past spring/early summer, but had mothballed it because it had some stuff i didn’t like. i revisited it a few days ago and took another stab at it in photoshop and it came to life. sometimes you need some space to let the photo mature a bit.

   garry winogrand, a very famous street photographer, used to let his negatives sit undeveloped for a year or two so that he would dissociate himself from the picture taking process… basically forget taking the picture, how he felt, what he thought when he took it. i am starting to see the wisdom in that. a lot harder with digital though.

   melissa: you didn’t miss the live sex show.. it was a few years ago. so i guess you did miss it, but you didn’t know me at the time.

   my baller friend/bass player steve had an epic bachelor party, and those pics document the occasion. MDMA, strippers, and sushi. good times! he has since been divorced.