Whidbey Island, WA

Boxing Day (December 26th), 2011. A notable amount of time has passed since then, but I don't not think that it diminishes the story I have to show.
Over and over I read photographers saying that they take the pictures to tell a story- an interesting concept. With stories composed mostly of pictures, the audience (that did not see the time and place) does see and experience pieces of the occurrence, but the pictures cannot fully bring to mind what has happened. The audience can only know of the time and place what is shown and told; the rest is kept for the characters of the story to know and be reminded of.
Despite this locking from memories, the audience still is kept interested. The technical skill of the photographer has a significant role in this, but what draws me to my favorite photographers' (here and here) stories is not the creation of a mathematically perfect photos. It's more a story that makes  the draw. not THE story that actually happened -instead, a story composed by the picture of my own experiences and make believes. A slightly warm, moist forest with heavy moss and glowing with a greenish gold light as the sun is setting outside the trees. Or, a great field of golden-yellow, un-trimmed grass and with a great dark cloud coming. The rain is already sprinkling and the sun is giving its last say before the dark rain. And I want to run through the rain, see the suns last light for for the day, and watch the procession of the cloud.
I don't know how you see a photo, or whether, consciously or unconsciously, feeling is stirred, if you just want to see a well balanced photo, or some other reason. However, I want to tell you a story. You can't know my story, but I hope your story is shown clearly.
--I can't quite tell what it is like for me to find something old that my family built years ago, but maybe I can take you to your grandparents' attic where you found the kerosene lamp next to the old letter still with an envelope.

"Seriously man, no more dancing in the scoop."

Apple tree!

These next three are from a shed and chicken coup my grandma and uncle  (I think it was these two) built sometime before I was around.

My brothers learned to play "Pit" with these same cards several years ago.

Experimenting with remote flash:

Next I shall show you my newest niece (and her family)!!

In a Land of Trees and Water

Let me introduce to you Mr. Lichen (pronounced: likin' ):

So, my plan is to let out all the photos I edited this week, once a week in accordance to topic/subject matter.
I hope you like my plan. :D
These photos were almost all taken in 2011, and in September. This being said, do not be surprised when you see a pair of bright yellow leaves hanging as if they are dying or Winter or something. Yep.
This post is also primarily photos taken in forests. Forests are wonderful, beautiful, and rather captivating places to be (at least for me). The in forest experience is probably second only to that of being way up in the mountains ... oh, mountains! ... yeah, I kinda miss on-mountain hiking.



I mentioned water in the title, this is why:

Tides out at the Browns Point lighthouse:

Remember: September. That should explain every bit of green, orange and yellow:

You know the feeling you often get in forests? It's a kind of magical, wondrous feeling. You know that dis-satisfaction with a great photo, and that line people so often say about their photo ("This picture doesn't make up for actually being there.")?
The next photo looks like something you would rarely or never see in an actual forest, but it produces those in-forest wondrous feelings and imaginations of  warm, wondrous forests. <-that is how I justify making something unreal.

Don't try too hard to out reach your peers...

WATER!! :D

Hydrangeas, beautiful flowers:

That is all for now, come back next week for photos from Whidbey Island on Boxing Day! :D

Off-camera Flash: Amps, Guitars, Fields, and Walls

My brothers amp. Well, some tubes on the back of the amp.

He was replacing the speaker in the amp, and here he is soldering the speaker to the speaker to the rest of the amp.

The soldering iron's home.

Those same tubes this post started with. They glow when in use. =)

My brother testing his amp out. Also, the lighting is from the experimental use a remote flash set on the couch.

These next several photos are in Lakota middle school's sports field, are rather fun night.

The rest are from my youth groups winter retreat. I will have another post with pictures from the rest of the retreat later, but here are some photos from one night at the retreat.

The wall is magnetic. :P

Yay! That is all for now. I am on Spring break, so I am expecting to do around two more blog posts before April 2. Thanks for viewing! :D