Week 7

This is another shot I did in our apartment in Seoul. I took several of them, but in most of them my necklace is in focus, and my eyes are out of focus. I believe I used a 28mm for these, maybe 50mm. Either way, my forehead looked huge in them. Well, even bigger than it really is.

NEW FORMAT

With life getting more and more hectic, it is becoming increasingly difficult to post a photo a day. One major obstacle is the speed of scanning. I simply can not get enough film through the scanner a day to find a solid photo to post each day. In the rush of it all, I feel I am not taking enough time for discussion of the photos or to reflect on the time when I took them. Therefore, I am changing the format from one post a day to one a week.

Day 37/Week 6

Billy Delong, Beijing, China

2006

Day 36

This shot is of my sister in-law Allison decorating a cake back in 2004 at her home in Birmingham. I like the shot, but wish I had used a larger aperature to create less depth of field.

Day 35

Underpass near Sloss Furnace in Birmingham.

Day 34

Inside the Hanoi Hilton, 2001

Day 33

This is a shot of St Peter's Bascilica I took while in Rome in 2006.

Day 32

Here is another shot of the tower in Pisa. This one is a bit more traditional, but still doesn't reveal the massive numbers of tourists around it.

Day 31

This is a photo I took of Bud in his home studio in 2004 while we were in Omaha on vacation. I asked him to pick up a brush and start painting while I fired off a role of film. We bought a painting from him that day of tire tracks along a muddy road. I finally got it framed just a few months ago and it's now finally hanging in our dining room.

Day 30

This is a shot of a street performer I took right outside the Uffizi Museum in Florence. Earlier in the day, I had been walking with Khammany. I wasn't paying any attention and this guy walked up next to me and held my hand. I didn't realize it for about ten yards. When I did, it scared the s&^t out of me. Then, a crowd of people burst into laughter. Later I went back and photographed him at work.

Shortly after taking this picture, I broke the motor drive on my Canon EOS 3. I still have, and use it, but it is held together with gaffer tape. Sad Times.

Day 29

Another grainy shot of Khammany in Seoul. There are a lot of these.

Day 28

In Seoul we lived at the base of Nam San, which is a mountain in the center of the city, just north of the Han River. I use to go up on the roof top and photograph people from above. This was a girl walking on the street in front of our place. To me, she looks ghostly.

Day 27

Another Thailand beach photo. I love the reflection.

Day 26

This is a photo I took of a barber in Vietnam. At first glance I thought it was in Thailand, but while cleaning it up, I realized the print in the newspaper is Vietnamese.

Day 25

This is a photo I took in Italy in 2006 while visiting Pisa on a day trip. I was going through my pictures of the tower and the majority of them are the typical photo of the tower in it's entirety with tourist around it pretending to hold it up while their spouse snaps a picture. Although I usually like having people in my pictures, I like the fact that there is nobody in this one. This picture also reminds us that Pisa is a town where other things exist, not just the tower.

Day 24

This is a photo I took in Insadong, which is a historic neighborhood in downtown Seoul. I was shooting a friend of mine along this reflective wall when these two girls came and stood next to it in traditional Korean dresses. This neighborhoood was a good place to people watch and take candids.

Day 23

Another shot from the Terracotta Warriors in Xian.

Day 22

This is a shot I took of a Monk while on a trip to Thailand with my friend Dennis. This is the first shot I have posted to this blog that is in color. The majority of the time I shoot in black and white when using film. That's one thing I love about digital. The capability to go back and forth between color and black and white, and the ability to switch ISO at any time.

Day 21

This is another photo of Khammany. I'm not sure exactly where or when it was taken. I love the rawness of the grain and the lighting. There is another picture I took of Khammany in our apartment in Omaha that has this same feel. In it, she is sitting in the frame of the bathroom door. Hopefully, I come across it in my scanning process.

Day 20

Italy, 2006