March Calendar

Here's my March Calendar.

March 31st - My Strat

I made a DIY Grid Spot tonight. I used twice-sticky tape instead of glue and it worked very well. It gives a kind of "spotlight" look to things so I thought I'd put the spotlight on my guitar. Like Alan's trumpet, this guitar has been photographed more than it's been played this year. But I have played a bit this week so that's good :)
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March 30th - "Warm" Light

What is it that is so pleasing about warm light in our homes? Why do we not have fluorescents? I can see why not bright fluorescents, but what if they were turned down and not quite so bright as at the office? I still don't think they would be as comfortable as a warm light by the bedside like this. But what is it about the color of light that makes it warm and pleasing or the color of other lights that makes them cold and harsh?
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March 29th - Hiyu

Our theme this week is "Life is Good" and for me it could have just as easily been "Life is BUSY!" as I've been pretty slammed with different things going on... Right now I'm wiped and I just realized I need to post a photo today for this week's theme - Luckily I snapped the Hiyu leaving the ferry dock this afternoon. This is the smallest (I think) ferry in the Washington State Ferry fleet and it's here in the islands while they fix the broken down Elwha. But anyway - since any sunny day in our quaint little seaside village says "Life is Good", I think I got my photo for the week.
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March 28th - Wasp Passage Sunset

On the ferry home tonight, we got to go through Wasp Passage, a rare treat these days. It used to be the ferries would almost always take that route, but now they don't so much any more. Coming out of Wasp Passage and into San Juan Channel, we saw this beautiful sunset over our island. That's Yellow Island at right; San Juan Island in the background.
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March 27th - Twinkie, Episode Eight - The Great Escape

Yup OK, here's my photo a day late. (But I did shoot this photo yesterday). We've seen that a lot of other people have been to La Conner recently, so we thought, "Why not?" and we went too, and good thing, because we caught Twinkie there trying to make a getaway. Luckily, Twinkie doesn't have a whole lot going on in the brains department - the "Tug Boat" he chartered was just a sculpture.

March 26th - Cell phone setup

Lance saved me today - In comments from yesterday's photo, he said he wanted to see the setup for it, and I was out of ideas and out of time tonight. (look at the time stamp for today's photo!) So here it is, down and dirty. 3 strobes, one at top thru modified softbox, two at back with blue gel and red gel throwing color on the wall. Camera was mounted just out of frame at left, and that's a one-way bronze mirror the cell phone is resting on. (but you've seen that before)
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