Category: Artifacts

I misused the panoramic function on my iphone for this one.

The assignment was newsworthy this week. Not surprisingly with my other work I went for the mundane. The good folks at the library do a good job with their story time, and its much appreciated.

But while uploading the photo, I realized I had shot another “newsworthy” thing earlier this week after having listened to the episode. The flags at Ikea were half mast again! But over the past couple months, with Orlando, Dallas, and Baton Rouge, such a display of mourning is so regular, it didn’t even trigger this fit with the assignment until now.

I had a tough time with this one. Moving water is not particularly easy to get right, especially since my setups are so rudimentary (me and my camera). I ended up trying a couple approaches, shooting the river in Zion National park and then behind a waterfall.

I flipped my lens to do a the macro for the old basset hound that my parents brought down from San Jose. I have no idea when I painted this little ceramic fellow.

Ever since running into Maarten Rots work , I’ve been quite a fan. I love his semi-abstract images, relishing the flatness and indeterminacy but avoiding pure blur.

Here’s a photo that feeds off of his aesthetic from our visit to Ikea. Our daughter was playing with my Nikon with the 105mm f/2.5 and she snuck her hand in front of the lens for this shot.

This was a more intentional attempt at this assignment, with one of my standard stomping grounds as the star.

This was completely unintentional, but it turned out that the dragon boat races in May were perfect for this assignment.

My idea assignment (aside from my usual default of catching the baby) was to take an image of used plates after the meal. Most of them didn’t come out well but this one was decent.

I hang out in a group on Boardgamegeek called the “Swedish Meatballs“, founded by a guy from Sweden. So naturally, the food of this crew is Swedish meatballs. I did one a few years ago when I first joined, but with the new Las Vegas Ikea opening, it made sense to jump in and update it.

At the Ikea Cafeteria with the flag at half mast.