a slightly different focus

On Sunday the 9th, I caught a performance by someone I hadn’t seen in a while — someone, in fact, I didn’t even know performed:

Traci Kanaan
From selling advertising specialties to performing song paradies. Nice.
She opened for another interesting act:

The Disgruntled Clown
Fun time, with both of them. Photographs from the event, along with some shots from [...]

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The Saturday after First Friday, Gerald and I enjoyed a photostroll in downtown Macon.
Have to tell you: although not terribly long — 90 minutes, give or take — I enjoyed both revisiting downtown Macon in fall spendor and spending some photography time with a good friend. Thanks, Gerald.
Some decent results, too. My favorite:

Fall Line-Up
Taken at [...]

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Been a busy couple of weeks, but want to begin to catch up on some back photography posts.
…Starting with November’s First Friday. To do that, I’ve got to thank a few folks:

Doug’s Ballroom Art Show
The old Library Ballroom is an amazing space. Doug’s art is worthy — and he’s a good friend. Well done, man.
A [...]

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Barack Hussein Obama, a black man, has been elected the 44th president of the United States. Wow.

I’m a Georgia Voter
Congrats also to Congressman Marshall. Despite some disagreements, I’m happy to see Jim prevail — in a very tough environment.
Shame that Jim Martin seems not to have joined the party. Two outta three ain’t bad. [...]

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Was in Columbus for a job last week — that, unfortunately, was postponed at the last minute. Will hopefully be heading back later this week to do that job.
Meanwhile, Phillip and I took the time we’d planned on taking photographs to … take photographs. We wandered around downtown and riverside on an exceptionally pleasant photostroll.
Including [...]

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…has been posted. I’ve added an additional 41 photographs to the five already there, all but one from the Festa street fair.
Sorry to take so long with these. My schedule since getting back to Georgia has included a good deal of craziness.
But lots of fun to look through again:

Party on.

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…was a great deal of fun — it was great to see some folks I haven’t in a while.
At Creighton and Carolyn’s, no less — a Cocktail Hour homecoming, of sorts. So:

Stop and Let Me Tell You….
Haven’t blogged for a while; been chained to the desk for weeks. Nice to have the opportunity to reconnect [...]

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One word: Wow.
I didn’t expect the Maine/NY trip to impact me in the way it did.
However, “blown away” is not inaccurate. From nearly every part of Maine, which I’ve missed more than I realized, to long-lost friends and family — whose lives are well beyond what I expected — the past month or so has [...]

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Wasn’t sure what to expect from an overnight in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
What I got was fantastic — not only a great place (including wireless internet), courtesy of a longtime family friend, but a today-only street fair to boot. Once again in the right place at the right time.
Further, not twenty minutes into enjoying said [...]

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Hard to believe, but I’ve been here for almost two weeks.
One the one hand, I’m eager to get back to Macon. I miss my kids cats, my community, and my home. On the other, being here has been pretty magical.
Take this photograph from a just-after-tropical-storm coastline, for instance:

Post-Storm Surf
Right place, right time. Nice.
Parenthetically, that would [...]

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Updated. One of the other Maine posts has been updated, too — please continue to scroll down. Thanks.
Taking a break from photography tonight; tropical storm Hanna is also visiting Maine this weekend, and I’m stuck indoors.
Which means an opportunity to sort through the more than seventeen hundred shots taken so far. (Damn, that’s a lot.)
Some [...]

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Started my trip down memory lane today, leaving Ogunquit, in the far southern part of the state, for where I went to college: the University of Maine, in Orono.
The UMaine campus is just north of Bangor, the last so-called “big” city before you head into the North Maine Woods — approx. 150,000 in the greater [...]

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In Maine, that is:

Ogunquit Beach, Across the River
The view from my room. Not too shabby, even in extreme wide-angle…;)
More over the next few weeks days. Thanks for checking back.
Update: ‘Nuther, from Sunday:

Perkins Cove Boats, Ogunquit
Definitely some emotion in this, well, homecoming (for lack of a better term). I didn’t expect being back in Maine — [...]

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Okay, let’s get this out of the way up front: I haven’t been posting — or photographing — enough recently.
But, there’s a good reason, one regular readers of this site know — equipment that’s not up to snuff. So some changes have been in order.
As of yesterday, those changes are nearly complete.
It’s meant selling my [...]

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Sorry for the lack of updates to the blog recently; been behind the work curve. On the positive side, my internet issues seem to have cleared up….

An interesting — and pretty accurate, IMHO — take on the photography business right now: The Cloud is Falling. Weddings, indeed…;)
Rolling Stone is switching to a “regular” magazine size. [...]

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Please note: been having connection issues for the past few days; things still aren’t running as smoothly as I’d like. Sorry this posting is a little later than I’d expected.
Calvin is one of the first people I met after moving to Macon, back in the dark days of 2004-5. We’ve been close since.
He’s an unconventional [...]

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…are not only wonderful people, they, together with Martha Kelly — Trish’s amazing Mom — hosted this week’s Cocktail Hour. As expected, it was fantastic.
The happy couple:

Miles and Trish (Enjoying their Cocktail Hour)
Couldn’t stay the duration, alas, and can only look at a few of the photographs from tonight before getting back to work — [...]

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…but have been otherwise occupied. Thus, there are a few stacked up.
Next time you have a moment, pull up to the computer with your favorite beverage and enjoy:

Metallophile, my favorite font in a while — nice.
This has been around for a while, but it’s still a great storm photograph. Just wow.
Also from the NYT, When [...]

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Warning: A long, rambling, and — perhaps — nonsensical post. I don’t do as much personal stuff here as I used to at the old web site and blog, so … well, forgive. Read on.
Dan, Doug, and various other friends in crowds — and bands — I love, please bear with me. Going downtown [...]

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