Wedding Day and Camera Fun

Saturday past my was my niece's wedding day. The weather turned out wonderful after a heavy rain Friday night. For those of you not residing in New England, this summer's weather has been the pits. I pulled out all the stops taking photos. I had my Nikon N80 film camera as well as the new dare I say, Canon A590 IS digital. At times I looked like a Japanese tourist with one camera around my neck and the other in my hand. To top it off on one occasion I also had a cup of coffee in one hand as I was shooting.

I was using Ilford XPS black and white with a orange YA2 filter with a 50mm lens. Bring back memories Neil? Then I loaded the Nikon with Kodak 200 print film switching to my 70 -300 zoom, and had the digital going all the time.

Here are a couple of shots.


I like the look on O'Brian face in this one.
What can he be thinking looking at the bag piper?





The photo of Meghan and her 3 brothers up top
is film.









This shot of Meghan and O'Brian was taken with the Canon digital. I went along with the professional photographer and took a bunch of shots as he was shooting. So as they were looking at him I was shooting away. The photographer was cool about me shooting while he was working. It pays to ask and stay out of the way.

I have about 150 photos to look through, if this keeps up I may have to break down and get Photoshop for the computer.

Vinyl is back

After years of moving my LP collection from apartment to apartment, and a few living arrangements I will not get into, this spring I enlisted my brother-in-laws' help and he build me a cabinet to store my LP collection.

I live in an apartment so I needed to get some headphones since I, unlike some of the other folks that I share the building with, actually do not like to be a pain in the ass.

I purchased a pair of headphones from Good Cans a web site run by the husband of a fellow Boise Cascade employee. Turns out these headphones are great. They are Grado Headphones SR60 made in the USA in a little place called Brooklyn, NY. Highly recommended!!!

So I've been listening to some stuff I haven't heard in years, and tonight I put Paul Simon's Graceland on the turntable. Anyone remember how good that disc is? Recorded in 1986 one of the best, maybe in the top 50 of all time. Discuss among yourselves.

Reading the liner notes I see that Steve Gadd played the drums on some of the tracks, and Ralph MacDonald played percussion on some of the tracks. Steve Gadd is on countless Lp's in my collection he is one of the busiest drummers of our time. Check out his discography. Ralph MacDonald is on the other half of my Lp collection. Ralph is a member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band that's enough in my book, but look at his discography.

Both of these guys have had a huge part in the music world in the past 30 years or more but the average person on the street does not have a clue who there are.

Time pick up some vinyl and read those liner notes!