Hope in July

July 6th, 2007

In entertainment news:

• movies: Transformers was awesome. Shia did not disappoint.
• music: Chrisette Michele
• books: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein

I’ve been busy lately, as always. Work, study, surviving . . . the usual. My taking photos is the only constant, and it manages to keep me sane. I really need to fit drawing in there, somewhere, but I remain creatively blocked to no end.

This past weekend I attended a picnic and then went over to the Fairhope pier with some friends. I got some nice shots. It was really cool to shoot in black and white. I find it works really well in lowlight conditions anyways; the exposures are more forgiving, even digitally.

Baby DeeDee.

Braxton.

Albert.

Shirelle & Ashley.

Alex toured us when we visited Bethel in New York. He’s from Mobile, and he came down for some vacation. This is the first “formal” portrait I’ve gotten of him. He’s pretty comfortable in front of the camera, which always helps.

Lovely Laura.

Fairhope Pier:

This photo is insanely sharp, considering the long exposure and lack of tripod.

I saw this couple from far off (actually, when I was first walking on the pier they were in front of me, but I didn’t pay them much attention), and I liked their silhouette against the dock. As Braxton and I were walking back down the pier, I mentioned that I wanted to take a photo of them, like up close, but I was too chicken to go do it. Well, Braxton was all about it, so I ended up going down there. Braxton actually kinda of asked for me. I couldn’t really see the girl’s face because the lights caused her to be in the guys shadow. However, when she came into the light and I could make out her face. . .

. . .it’s Melody, the Starbucks barista, and her friend Daniel. She always looks so effortlessly awesome. She kind of reminds me of a friend met in college, Caitlin, who’s probably going to become a critically-acclaimed writer any day now. But anyway, they were all about letting me take their photo, so thanks, guys. My only regret is that I wish I would have framed this a bit better, but, I had my back to the side of the dock with no railing, so I was a little preoccupied with trying not to fall into the muddy bay below for the sake of the shot (color).

I’m going to pause this here, because it’s almost 5am. The next post will be my friends’ midnight playground antics and other random shots from the past few weeks.

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