Category: Documentary

Brother performing @ River Rhythms

The Aussie/Celtic/Rock band Brother performed at River Rhythms Wednesday evening. The band has down sized from when I first got to know them in the mid 90’s. Seem to have lost a bit of energy too. Though still a very lovely way to spend an evening in Pierre Marquette Park. A good time was had by all; from what I could tell. The full set of photographs can be viewed here.

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Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph or 28 mm Summicron Asph

being… with bees… and flies…

Raghu Rai suggested, “A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.” I’m not sure about the forever part. Yet an un-retouched photograph does seem to make a note of tiny factual fragments clipped out of the time and space continuum. But what do these facts mean? What was this large bee doing to or with the little bee? This was the third day that I witnessed this behavior. I’m not sure if they were the same two bees. Are they couple? Just friends? Mortal enemies? Working together on the job? I have no idea – all I have is these few “facts.”
Well what do you know? Or more correctly what do I know? Not much apparently. This large fellow is not a “Bumble Bee” but ’tis a “Robber Fly.” Live and learn on the “internet.” Oh – and only the poor little one is actually a “bee.”

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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit with 2 X Apo Extender

Games…

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Let the game (no rules) begin…

Last week Sophia and I went shopping for her 8th birthday gifts.
We stopped for lunch and played a few rounds of the newly acquired Pass the Pigs game.
Here we see Sophia checking the rules as to how to score her recent roll of the pigs.

Turns out that the roll scored as a “lose your points and lose your turn.”

Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph