Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Stuff and Things
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Hi everyone, i hope you had a good weekend. I spent it sweating in our 90 degree heat and sewing. We did take a break on sunday to go down to the Museum of Contemporary Art for their 40 days things. It’s their anniversary and they are free for 40 days and they had a big rock concert for free. We caught the 1900’s and Califone. Nat is the big Califone fanboy, so in 5 years we’ve pretty much only missed a show once, and the red red meat show because we didn’t know about it. Nat got a fancy pants Canon Rebel XTI digital SLR camera and a few lenses last week.
I stole it during the show and took a few photos. He’s going to let me put them on flicker this weekend. But every so often i suprise myself and really like something i take. I think i want an 8 x 10 print of this one. If any of you know me in real life, i’m a banjo freak. The banjo makes me happy. This picture just makes me happy
That’s Jim playing his banjo. Taken with nat’s ginormous lens. Very top heavy..hard to lock in your ams to avoid camera shake. Other photos Nat and I took of them here.
So again because i don’t have anymore to share if you live in the indiana/chicago/wisconsin area please come out to yarncon this saturday from 10am til 4pm.
Posted by Jennifer on 10/09 at 09:01 AM ♥ Comments (7)
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2. left this comment on 10/09 at 09:56 AM:
and now that I have gone through your other photos, what would be really cool is a set of three banjo pictures with this one in the middle. The other two that would look great with this are:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artmem/1519947832/in/set-72157602323801940/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artmem/1519097425/in/set-72157602323801940/
Which would give you front view, right and left.
(I’m such a nerd...)
3. left this comment on 10/09 at 10:06 AM:
I’ll be there… without a banjo though. ;)
4. left this comment on 10/09 at 01:42 PM:
To paraphrase Steve Martin, it’s impossible to be sad when there’s a banjo around.
5. left this comment on 10/09 at 06:54 PM:
I thought about singing one of my impromptu songs and making it about banjos, but really, it sounds better in my head. rats.
have fun at yarncon!!!
6. left this comment on 10/10 at 06:20 AM:
i also have the digi rebel and once had a dog named banjo. coincidence? maybe.
7. left this comment on 10/11 at 08:50 AM:
Very neat photo! I love how lenses like that make part of it in focus and the rest blurry...so cool.
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1. cary left this comment on 10/09 at 09:38 AM:
And that is what makes this photo even more special, the fact that one really good picture pops up in the middle of many mediocre and some really bad ones. My thought is if they were all great then you would lose the specialness of the really good ones.
Well at least that is what I tell myself and my tons of bad to mediocre pictures and that one really good one.
I have an idea brewing on the back burner to gather up a handful of my better pictures and frame a bunch of 8x10’s to cover a large empty wall in my bathroom. I’m still needing a quite a few more (one is the hummer sitting on the feeder that I had on my site awhile ago) since that wall is HUGE.