The Violin Maker

A photo I shot a while back for work. It's of Bruce Brown, an Ironton, Ohio, man who had heart surgery, but is doing great and is back in his wood shop making violins. Pretty simple lighting setup, two Alien Bees units, one camera left through a large softbox moved in close to the subject and a second camera right pointed at the violins in the background with a 10-degree honeycomb grid.

Happy Birthday Reece

Sunday was his party, but today he turns 5.

Water & Rocks

Open Water Swim

Kenzie took part in her first open water swim Saturday morning at Cave Run Lake. She swam the 1 mile option, which involved two laps of swimming around a buoy that was a quarter mile from the shore. The buoy is the two round red things floating way off in the distance in the second photo.

Heart & Vascular Center

Neat looking sky this morning, so I shot this while waiting for my people to show up.

Some Family Pics

It was a hectic day, but had a fun evening with my family this evening.

Two Deer

From my kitchen window this morning.

First Day of Fifth Grade

Kenzie started at a new school this morning, which I think made her mother more nervous than it did her.

Kayaks

We went kayaking with Kenzie's swim coach at Grayson Lake on Saturday. Love the bright colors of the kayaks against the darker water.

Kmart is not very Green

Some companies like Starbucks are trying to reduce waste by asking if you want a paper receipt, but Kmart seems to be going the opposite direction. I went in today and bought four items, when the checkout girl hands me this huge wad of paper that is my receipt...turns out, it's actually five sheets of paper, that includes four coupons with some huge paragraph explaining each, and my actual receipt for my four items is about 18 inches long. Sheesh.

Bluegrass State Games

From last weekend...just now getting around to posting.

Foggy Sunrise

This is from yesterday morning...it's rainy and nasty out this morning.

Cannon Fire

A cannon is fired during a colonial times demonstration Friday afternoon at Carter Caves State Park near Olive Hill, Ky.

Cave HDR

Or at least a natural bridge HDR...this is blended from three shots to get detail in both the heavy shadow and daylight areas. You can click on the photo to get a much bigger image to see some of the detail. BTW, this was taken today at Carter Caves State Park near Olive Hill, Ky.

More Flowers

I started to not even post these...after all, they're just more flower shots. But then I thought, why not. Maybe someone will like them.

Gladiolus

Hermione Pennington

Kenzie all dressed up for Tuesday's midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Surgical Silhouette

One of the outtakes from a photo shoot last week where my flashes didn't fire, but made for a neat effect.

Sunset on the Ohio

Hangin' out in the OR

Spent the better part of my day in an operating room waiting to photograph something yesterday, so I snapped a few shots of stuff to pass the time.