Okay, so I need to make a calendar to, you know, sell. Here are the candidates grouped as a set on my flickr account. I’d love if it you could comment on which ones should go in, if they should, where, etc.

That would be teh awesome.

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Here’s the thread and gallery in the forum, so go check it out. It was a fun little experiment.

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You know, after choosing to concentrate on photography as my career, it’s like a whole new world opened up that I’d closed off a couple years ago. I mean, I’ve photographed in that time–as my gallery will attest to–and my skills with the camera have gotten better. But I hadn’t experimented in a long, long time. Nathan and I visited my dad’s place last night and played pool and darts with my sister, father, and my father’s girlfriend (who is pretty cool, I might add). Then I started to get ideas and realized while I had brought my camera (lesson learned days ago), I hadn’t brought my tripod or external flash needed for my ideas in such low light to get the crispness in the places where movement blur shouldn’t be.

You know, you want blurry balls but not a blurry background (unless your panning, then you get sharp balls).

Damn, pool is as Freudian as fencing.

Anyrate. Photos like these —

Look cool, but they could look SO much better if I’d set it up correctly.

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Finally, I have stabbed Eisenhower through its heart…okay, I climbed it. But the first two times ended in failure. First time, I got a murderous headache and had to descend. The second time I set out in clear weather that became rain that became SNOW. Damn White Mountains.

THIS time, it was beautiful and clear and fantastic light. I’ve noticed that people tend to ask stupid questions on trails. I mean, here I am, slogging upwards on the trail. I step aside and let descending folks go (means I can take a sip of water and catch my breathe). Three separate times I got asked, “So, where you headed?”

“Well, just another 300 feet, then I figured I’d turn around and go home for the hell of it.”

“Mount Washington! Wait, this is Eisenhower?!”

“Up.”

Sheesh. I also saw a Forest Ranger making his way down the trail. Oh, speaking of law enforcement, I saw no less than four State Trooper speed traps. Their hiding spots are impressive–Troopers must’ve been amazing hide and seek players as kids.

And what IS it with tailgaters? I mean, the speed limit in Franconia Notch (also a narrow, windy two-lane road with random hikers on the shoulders) is 45 mph. This big ol’ Ford F-350 rides my ass the Entire Time. This is depite my hitting 60 to try and shake him. This Ford also had a trailer of four ATVs. *stabs ATVs*

…enough ranting. I’m tired. Look at the pictures instead.

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