New Vistas/ Davidlind’s Wedding Photography

Posted October 29th, 2008 by David and filed in Blogs or Posts, My Photos
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Someone from back home has inspired me to think about doing some wedding photography. So I have been practicing. What do you think so far?

I Woke Up This Morning And Went Here/ Homeless In America

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  1. My Hopes For A New Day/ After The Party Is Over
  2. I Woke Up This Morning And Went Here/ Homeless In America
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We are back in Richmond tonight.  Here’s a photo from this morning.  I woke up about 4:30 and the person next to me was still sleeping.  I slipped out and walked down to the beach.  Nothing was on my mind.  I was blank.   And I was watching this ship on the horizon.  After awhile it reached a point where the horizon started to glow a little bit and I thought “this must be where the sun is going to arrive”.

And then the ship burst into flame.  Or so it seemed.
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This  photo is so dark.  I tried to lighten it up.  But nothing works.  This is the way the camera felt things were at this moment.  Does it seem ill-formed to you?
Time passed and I found other things to shoot.  What is a good way to describe what you are doing when you take a picture?  Shoot seems too much like NRA material.
There was a large woman sleeping in the sand.  She had been there the day before.  Later when the sun arrived she was there wrapped in her black clothing smoking a cigarette.  Someone started talking about a beached whale.
I didn’t find this  particularly funny.  What is it like to spend your day lying in the sand?  Do you talk to the sand?  Do you pray to the sky?
I wanted to take her photo.  But I didn’t want to invade her privacy.  Everyone in the photos I took today saw her there.  Nobody spoke to her.  She was in a separate world.  A separate universe.  And I couldn’t take anything from her.  So no photos.
After awhile I returned to the sky where we live.  I returned to the bed that catches the breezes as they enter the room from the balcony.  And I pulled the clean sheet up over my shoulder to evade the chill.  My brain settled into a dream .   And the woman next to me pressed her body against my back.
And the beach below received the waves and held the spirit of a large woman in a small nest.
Perhaps I will meet her in my dream. Because in the light of day the gulf is too wide and I find it too difficult to communicate with her.

Autumn Weather/ Friday Is Upon Us

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I went down to the James River last evening to try out the Nikon D40 that I purchased from Amazon a few days ago. It’s a smaller camera than the D70 (far less expensive too) and it has a superior LCD screen and setup options on the screen. Here is a photo I took with it. I also bought the Nikon 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom Nikkor Lens. It does take better photos further away than anything I have used in the past. And it has a stabilization process that makes things clearer. I sent the D70 back to Nikon as well so it was a productive day. Hopefully they can awaken it from its coma and send it home again.

I still love you Nikon D70 wherever you are. Get well soon.

We are heading back to Virginia Beach this weekend and I hope to take a few better photos after learning from my experiences last weekend. Of course you can never tell what you are going to get down there. Things may be completely different and it will have nothing to do with my learning curve.

My learning curve sometimes seems more like a speed bump in the road.

I hope nobody is grossed out my the video of Craig Ferguson’s dream. Let me know if it bothers you. I find him to be extremely funny and Beth thinks I have lost my mind once again.

Amazon ads are making an appearance. It’s curiosity. Would anyone actually use them to make a buying decision?

I am skeptical. But I love Amazon and personally try to keep them in business by running the UPS guy up and down the road with packages.

Everyone have a great weekend. It’s the best time of year with the cool, dry weather and the beautiful fall colors coming soon. Or maybe they have already come to you. Bernie?

I know that Jeff is happily snapping photos up there in New Hampshire. I was in upper NH once camping out. I swear a bear was watching me. It was pretty scary.

Something was watching. Do you ever feel like you are being watched? Halloween is coming! Time for some more stories about UFO’s!  Yikes.

Thanks to Readers and Commenters/ Photo of Oprah’s Place in the Bahamas/ Let’s Have a Party!

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read about our adventures in the hurricane zone last week and comment as well.  I really appreciate it very much.  And I was trying to think of something to do for you all.  So I decided to put a photo of Oprah’s home up here.

Why? That’s a very good question.  Well first of all it should attract some attention and then maybe some of that will go towards the work you are doing here in blog land.

Oprah is always promoting people who are  doing good work too.  So for a moment let’s all imagine we have been invited to this grand place in Nassau for a party.

Let’s celebrate our ability to communicate with the world every day with our blogging efforts.

And for those of you who just wandered by to take a look at Oprah’s place I recommend these bloggers.  They are interesting, creative and very supportive people.  They may visit your blog while you are on vacation too.

Anne Moss at webpreppro.com

Bernie Kasper at sindianavisions.wordpress.com

AngelBaby at yourcaringangel.com

Robin Easton at nakedineden.com

Ron Dubin at blog.rtd13.com

Evita at evolvingwellness.com

Todd Mulske at myspace.com/toddmulske

Everyone except Todd is on the Blogroll or you can paste the addresses into Google and visit some great folks.  Todd needs to start expanding beyond MySpace into Flickr or someplace where we can all see his great photos.  And a  few other people need to convince me they are not just one step above being spammers if they ever return and read this post.

Thanks again!