I was really happy with this week’s photos. I really love the drummer and bass player, the giant nails and the melancholy Keeley. But my favorite has to be my product shot of my iPhone. The light worked out so much better than I expected or deserved for the amount of time I took setting it up. Let me know your favorites in the comments.
Another beautiful day here, and while I was out walking, I found myself above one of the holes on the golf course that winds through Trilogy. It makes for some stunning landscape shots.
We have this red glass poppy sticking out of a planter in our front yard. We have three other pots and have been trying to find three more, maybe in different colors or in red. We originally found it at a Trilogy Christmas bazaar two years ago. Today, I ran into a Trilogy friend I didn’t know worked with glass. She said if I sent her a photo of the one I have, she’d see if she can find who made this one. So, I took the photo today and sent it to her. Then I thought it would make a great photo of the day, so here it is.
A big week for flower photos. Yesterday, I photographed a glass flower, and today I have three more. The first is from a new hanging basket I bought at Home Depot today. I spent the last two days pulling weeds and removing dead summer annuals from the yards. I also picked up some fall flowers and bulbs to plant for next spring. The other photos of beautiful dahlias are from a lovely bouquet two of our good friends here in Trilogy grew in their yard. Now I have to try and grow some next year—they are so beautiful.
More flowers
More flowers
This photo relates to the fact that next Tuesday I will be teaching an iPhone class here at Trilogy. Over the past few months, a few of us who are more tech-savvy than the rest of Trilogy have been volunteering to provide tech support twice a week in our clubhouse. We have decided to create a series of classes based on the questions we get most often. The first one we are offering is “I didn’t know my iPhone could do that!”—a phrase we hear a lot. Since I was thinking about the phone, I decided to do a product shot, and I am very pleased with how it turned out.
Walking on a trail I had never taken before, it led me through parts of Bellevue I’ve never seen. Along the way, next to the yard where they park our new trains, is this set of sculptures. I wasn’t quite sure what they were supposed to be until I sent the picture to my best buddy Bob in British Columbia, and he said, “Can you just imagine the size of the hammer and the person using it?” My eyes were opened. Bob saw nails. I almost missed them. But I loved the color, so here they are.
Off to Saturday Market this morning, and they had an outstanding jazz band playing. I loved the photos I took of the horn section, but this one of the bass player and the only woman in the band, the drummer, was my absolute favorite. They are concentrating really hard here, but they were having a lot of fun. And he was one of the best bass players I have ever heard.
Time for the weekly Keeley update. Today she’s in her melancholy mood. Not really, but seriously, she’s one of the moodiest dogs ever. Yesterday is a perfect example. She got up and was kinda quiet while we showered and got dressed. Then, while we were eating breakfast, she laid down for a nap (unusual). After that, she wanted to go outside in the backyard. We let her out, and while we were eating breakfast, she did her doggie thing, and when she came back, it was like she was a completely different dog—jumping all over and wanting to play. She stayed that way for most of the day. See what I mean? Moody.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them. – Diane Arbus
