Month: June 2020

52 Frames: Background

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I’ll admit right off that this wasn’t one of my favorite challenges from 52 Frames so far this year. I just didn’t “get it.” You were supposed to create a cool background for your subject. I’m not much for studio shoots, so I went with the idea of nature providing the best backgrounds. I went out to Sweetwater Wetlands Park here in Gainesville, aiming to see what I could do with the plethora of water lilies that are currently in bloom. The weather cooperated and for two mornings last week, it was actually below 70F at 8AM, so I had…

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Standing Up

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In my last job, one of the more challenging projects I managed was upgrading a lot of really old hardware. I needed specs of the old hardware and the new and how the one set mapped to the other. Someone told me to go talk to a woman in AWS who had just stood up three data centers in Asia, so I wrote her an email and asked for her help. I was going to be in DC in a few weeks, where she was based, so we agreed to meet. She showed up for the meeting impeccably dressed, while…

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52 Frames: Symmetry

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Two weeks ago, the challenge was Symmetry, which definitely opened up a lot of possibilities as I was walking around town here in Gainesville. I liked this shot I took at Depot Park, but the reflection was a bit muddled by wind. I went back twice later in the week, and there even more wind on the water, so I gave up on this subject for the challenge. On the way to the park, I passed by the GRU plant, our local utility, and the cover photo is the massive water cooler in fierce motion. Weird subject, but I really…

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