Weekend at Sucia

My brother and his friend invited me along for a 3 day weekend up at Sucia Island. We took my folk’s boat Favorite, 3 kayaks and this rowboat, lots of cameras, more food than we needed and had a great time. Gotta get out and do this more often! If you click on the photo, you’ll see a slide show with a few more keepers from the bunch I shot.

Sharon's Memorial

Sharon’s memorial was today at South Beach, one of her favorite places. The rain did not deter a pretty good sized crowd from showing up. Click on the photo if you would like to see a few more images. This poem was read at the end of the service and I really liked it so I thought I’d share it with you:

When I die, if you need to weep
Cry for your brother or sister walking the street beside you

And when you need me, put your arms around anyone
And give them what you need to give to me

I want to leave you something
Something better than words or sounds

Look for me in the people I’ve known and loved
And if you cannot give me away
At least let me live in your eyes and not on your mind

You can love me most by letting hands touch hands
By letting hearts touch hearts
And by letting go of children that need to be free

Love doesn’t die
So when all that’s left of me is love
Give me away

~ Anonymous

Rock 'n' Roll

Or is it Metal? Or is it Death-Metal? Whatever – it’s fun and high energy. And it’s fun to shoot portraits like this with red gels on the strobes. Here’s TJ, once again a victim willing participant for when I want to get out my photo gear and try out some things.

Senior Portrait

This kid is going places. Literally. Look at that bike. It's a '79 Kawasaki KZ750 with full fairing and saddlebags. And it belongs to this High School Senior, Corwin. We went out for a quick photoshoot this evening just before sunset and got a bunch of good shots. This is my favorite.

October 7th - Wasps

If I told you I wasn’t just a little bit nervous shooting this photo… well I’d be lying. But I’ve been wanting to get a photo of yellowjackets for several weeks now. Why? I don’t know… maybe just to ask, “what is it about a big white delivery truck that is so inviting to these guys?” I tell ya – I been driving around all over the place and every time I stop or roll the window down, here they come buzzing around the steering wheel, the turn signal, the windshield, the cardboard boxes in the back… Holy cow they are thick this year!

So anyway, like I said, I wanted to get a photo so I sat outside one day after work and waited and waited… (crickets). But no yellow jackets. One day I laid a piece of lunch meat out and waited and waited… (more crickets). But again, no yellow jackets. Today I sliced up an apple and put the core pieces out and yowser! Look at this mob! I was almost afraid to go out there and shoot them.
1/200th sec. f/7.1 iso 200

The Tease

Many of you may have seen photos that I put up last year of my guitar, well here's the band I'm in. We used this photo on our poster advertising our first ever gig which is going to be May 15th at Herb's Tavern. Whoo hoo! From left to right, that's Darvis on Guitar, Joe on Drums, Jake on Bass, Tim on Vocals and me Tim on Guitar. Oh and the name of our band is The Tease.

April 2nd - Breezy

We have a bit of a blow going on outside right now. I figured I'd cruise out to Cattle Point to see what it looked like and was able to snap this shot off in between blasts of wind driven sand.