This is my first post, so lets see how it works.A candle Chicken shed Boating

Candle #1
Candle #2

Music box #2
Music box #3
Music box #4
Music box #6

Extra
Candle #3

Candle #5
Music box

Nikon D70, Sigma lens, scented candle and a kitty cat music box.

Well it's been almost a year since my last post, but with college and all, it's hard to find time.
Winter is my absolute favorite time of year...the smells, the food, cooking, being with family, and the beautiful decorations.
One of my favorite parts of the holiday atmosphere are the scent of the candles at my parent's house. So I thought I'd get in the spirit by experiment with the light. Open flame is hard to capture, espically with an auto focus camera, as it is seen by the naked eye. But I thought I'd have some fun with it anyway.

close up
3 candles
upward angle
sepia
another sepia
paint effect
another paint effect
negative
another negative

Halloween is over, but I thought I would post some pictures from another holiday:  Los Dias De Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.  Unlike Halloween, it is not a scary time.  Rather, it is a festive occasion and calls for celebration.  There was a big fiesta in Mesilla, New Mexico to honor the dead.  People built altars for family members who have passed on.  Flowers, candles and   favorite foods are often included in the displays.   Sheets of paper are decorated with skulls and handwritten notes.  Friends and family gather around to tell stories and answer questions about their loved ones.   Roadside memorials are constructed at accident sites to remember the dead.  They are tended as carefully as the graves.  I drove a few miles south of Las Cruces this morning and saw six of these memorials, many with multiple victims.  It is really heartbreaking.  

just for fun

Three from my latest roll of film: Rose 1, Driftwood Man, and Candlelight 1.

Shots taken while waiting for the bus: 1 2 3 4

Some roses.

Two blurred: artery and bus stop.

Went to the doctor this week.

The End

jlt posted one of these the other day, the color-process b/w film. usually i convert to greyscale when i scan, but i liked the sepia tones i got this time.

chabot observatory, oakland hills
candle at radio
camera corner, 13th at broadway
and an attempt at a lomo-esque shot with my mamiya on the 12th st. offramp.