I am training to be paraglider pilot! I made these images this week at the soccer fields at Darden Towe Park, where I and my instructor were practicing “kiting” the paraglider wing in gentle wind.
Dahlia Glow
Posted in 5DMII, Available Light on February 19, 2012 by budbranchThis was lit with a north-facing window…
Tim O’Brien & Uncle Henry’s Favorites
Posted in 5DMII, Available Light, music on February 16, 2012 by budbranchA great night of live music!
Tim played a favorite John Hartford tune “Gentle On My Mind”:
It’s knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it’s knowing I’m not shackled by forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the backroads by the rivers of my mem’ry
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
It’s not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking
It’s just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you’re moving on the backroads by the rivers of my mem’ry
And for hours you’re just gentle on my mind
Though the wheat fields and the clotheslines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman’s crying to her mother cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me till I’m blind
But not to where I cannot see you walking on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
I dip my cup of of soup back from a gurgling, crackling cauldron in some train yard
My beard a roughened coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you’re wavin’ from the backroads by the rivers of my mem’ry
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind
More pics here…
Live Arts: 24-7
Posted in 5DMII, Available Light on January 31, 2012 by budbranch7 plays in 24 hours!
Full coverage here…
Love Canon At The Jefferson
Posted in 5DMII, Available Light, music on January 26, 2012 by budbranchGreat show by Love Canon last night at the Jefferson
A Poignant Milestone For Photography
Posted in Sad on January 19, 2012 by budbranchThe New York Times says that Eastman-Kodak filed for bankruptcy early this morning…
The Quadrantids (Every January 4th)
Posted in 5DMII, Long exposures, sky on January 6, 2012 by budbranchI read that the Quadrantids meteor shower early Wednesday morning averaged 2 per minute – I didn’t capture nearly that many, maybe because I was looking out over Charlottesville. Anyway, I got my share! Notice in the last frame, there are TWO! (click into the images to make them full-screen…) The circular star-trail image was assembled from all the frames taken between 2:20 and 5:30AM. Since the Quadrantids radiate from a point in the Northern sky, all my frames included the star Polaris, around which all the stars visible in the Northern Hemisphere seem to rotate.
