Last night driving over the lake, on the way to Hot Springs from school, I noticed the sunset was really nice and that there were alot of ducks in the water. Stopped I did, and parked the truck on an old abandoned side road, and walked through the woods all the way down to the water. I must've taken 30 photos of the same scene, bracketing my exposure time and aperature settings, zooming in and out. It was really something. There are some better shots than this one; shots with ducks, even shots with better contrast and color. I love them.
Then I just sat there for about 30 minutes, listening to the ducks, and watching that big orange thing (I forget what you call it) sink out of sight. It was one of those times when you just sit there and cry and you don't know why. Maybe because the sunset was so pretty or maybe because I hadn't cried for a whole two days. It pisses me off because I'm not really a crying person. There'd been times when I'd gone 6 or 7 years without even coming close. I miss my brother and everything reminds me of him.
I'd never taken my camera into the lab at school and tried to upload images from my Canon to one of the G4's, but since I didn't get a chance to last night, I thought I'd try and look at the photos today at school.
I even remembered to bring my camera setup disk. But sweet, ...I just plugged the USB cord in, and the wonderful Apple machine automatically knew the brand and model of my camera. No setup cd, no nothing.
There are specific reasons why you have Apple and Macintosh nuts. I guess thats one of them.
Anyway after the sunset and the ducks, I met mom in Hot Springs and we went to Tim Ernst's slide show. It was nice to finally meet him after being a fan of his photography and keeping up with his journal for so long. He's just a normal nice guy who happens to be a great photographer and who happens to sell the heck out of his coffee table books. Two GREAT slide shows though. Great ones. Good music to go along with the images too; I recognized some of the music from the Out of Africa soundtrack, and even a nice Van Morrison song. Sounds crazy but it all fit together.
Posted by drew at December 03, 2002 03:27 PM