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Liberal to Left Musings: Politics, Religion, Ethics, Justice, Humor: 12/23/2012 - 12/30/2012
Words, words all around, but is there a drop of wisdom to drink? H. Richard Niebuhr claimed that defensiveness is the greatest source of error. There is plenty of that going around. A. N. Whitehead noted that a great source of error is making too large a generalization from too small an insight. Lots of that everywhere. Perhaps a "bits and pieces theory" of truth is the best we can do while devising helpful laws and practices in a spirit of bricolage.
Fallacies abound. Just because something worked in Australia or Norway doesn't mean it would work here in the same way or that it would be politically possible to begin with. Our history and culture are different. Statistical correlations become causal connections without regard for context. Absolute statements are commonplace. Things are said to work or not work, but they may work to some extent in some times and places but not or as well in others.
No general law or practice can prevent every specific act involving multiple murders. The NRA wants armed guards at every school. Sometimes that might save lives. But what will prevent one of them for unpredictable reasons from slaughtering a dozen first-graders before he can be stopped? Unlikely, yes, but how likely was the Newtown massacre?
Better control of gun possession, improving the mental health system to locate and render harmless potential killers, making ammunition with mass-murder potential hard to get, having armed guards in our schools, and much more-- all of these and many other laws, steps, and practices large and small might help in some cases but will not likely be effective in all instances, even if they are possible in a locality or the country as a whole. Taken separately or together, they are not likely to prevent all future mass murders. Individual people kill with specific weapons at given times and places under particular circumstances with varying motivations. Some will get through every net of laws and practices we can devise. The next horror may be in a crowded church committed by a middle-aged female.
Are there any commonalities, any recurring patterns and profiles? Yes, of course, and we must look for them and devise remedies accordingly. We need to act on many fronts in many ways learning from the past and using what experience has taught us to make better what cannot be made perfect. But we can only do so where public opinion and political means make it possible.
Every measure has an opportunity cost, may have unexpected side effects and cause new and unforeseen problems. Bureaucracy will complicate and frustrate enforcement of well-intended laws.
The Second Amendment is not the Word of God for all time but an anachronism that we might be better off without, especially given our present Supreme Court. Nevertheless, we could still permit responsible people to have guns for legitimate purposes though not without risking abuse and massacres. There is no fool-proof, risk-free system with or without the Second Amendment.
Cf. Japan at the opposite end of the individual freedom versus social control value spectrum:
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the lovely dove: Two years + a Giveaway!
Big balloons for my blogiversary :)
Why, hello there! Life has been sooo busy lately! So busy, in fact, that I let my two-year blogiversary slip by on Saturday with nary a mention!
It's not that I forgot about it though. I most certainly knew it was coming and even marked it on my planner. I just didn't have the time to properly prepare to celebrate it. And by "properly prepare" I mean go out and get something to host my second-ever giveaway! Yay! I'm so excited and I hope you will be too when you see what goodies I have in store. (More on that in a minute.)
I just wanted to do something to thank all of you who stop by here regularly (despite my irregular posting!) to say hello and give such kind, supportive, insightful, encouraging and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny comments. Your little notes really do make my day so I'd love the chance to make one of yours by putting a sweet little gift in the mail to you.
When I began blogging two years ago, I never imagined what a welcoming and wonderful community I'd find. Many of you I consider friends and some I've even met in real life! And I look forward to meeting even more of you through your blogs. There are so many talented, creative and simply fabulous people out there... the blogging community is like an never-ending fountain of inspiration! I feel so happy and even blessed that I am a tiny part of it.
Ok, now onto the prizes :)
Yesterday, after laying out the newspaper, I got a moment to breathe and go to one of my favorite stores: Paper Source! There I picked up...
... an adorable, accordion-style mini desk calendar! This would add a bit of color and cheer to anyone's workspace, don't you think? It can be displayed stretched across a table top, as above, or it comes with a little easel to show one month at a time. And February is just so cute!
... a cheeky retro coaster set. When I saw these I couldn't help but laugh. They would be perfect for setting Cosmopolitans on, say during a girl's night in? My favorite: "I'm so happy it's happy hour." ... and finally, a Parisian notebook. When I saw its vintage-style map cover, featuring little pictures of landmarks placed on the crooked streets, I snapped it up off the shelf. I've never been to the City of Love and Lights-- but oh how I'd love to go! I figured this notepad would be a winner since bloggy people adore Paris. But really, who doesn't?
So, what do you think? Would you love to win? I kind of want to keep them for myself but don't worry, I won't. I know one of you will give them a lovely home :)
To enter: All you have to do is leave a comment on this post! Easy peasy. Maybe tell me what you've been up to since work has kept me out of the loop for a week or so... Oh, and international readers: you can play too!
My only rule: Since this giveaway is to thank my friends and readers, you have to be a follower. But it's so easy! Just click follow and--yay!-- you're done.
Deadline:To give everyone ample time to enter, I won't pick a winner until next Wednesday, Jan. 26. And then I'll ship the prizes Thursday!
There you have it. My second-ever giveaway! I hope you'll play along! Before I go, one more time, thanks again for being here. Blogging simply wouldn't be the same without you.
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oh i'm totally in. i looove me some paper source goodness :)
Carissa, you and I are kindred spirits! I would have definitely picked up all three of those items myself... and then some! You know I'm a devoted follower. I'm always happy to find you at the top of my blogroll, 'cause it means you've just posted something lovely for me to read.Happy Blogiversary!PS: Oooh, I hope I win!
Happy Blogiversary, Carissa! I wish I could say I've been up to half of the adventures you have. :)
What a lovely giveaway! These products are ADORABLE!!!I've been out of the loop for like a year (terrible, right?), but I have been keeping as up to date as possible on the blogs I love to read. But you haven't missed anything from me :)
Oh yey, a giveaway! I love love love all these items, especially that vintage coaster and notebook. That is too cute! Last week work has kept super busy too. And after work I was pretty busy packing up a few stuff for my trip to California. =)
Omg CUTE! I especially LOVE that little notebook and the coasters! Can't believe it's been TWO YEARS already. I started reading your blog right when you started so I guess I've "known you" for 2 years now. Wow, time sure does fly doesn't it?! :)
Awesome. It's been two years? Congrats sweetie - your blog is always so uplifting and cheery! :)
Everything you picked out is so cute! But I think my favorite are the coasters. I would make sure that those get used! And congrats on making your 2nd blogoversary
Too cute! At first I thought the calendar were coasters and I quite liked them, although I do like it as a calendar too. I think the cocktail coasters are wonderful though :) I'm a bit of a coaster fan I'm realising.Happy Bloggiversary :)
What have I been up to? My birthday was this week, so celebrating!!
What a lucky day to find your blog. I'm loving it. Can't wait to keep reading and keep my fingers crossed for this giveaway to be mine! Ramblings of a Small Town Girl January 21, 2011 at 1:47 PM
I am in love with that notebook! Such cute stuff!
Thanks for the giveaway! So glad I found your beautiful blog!
Such great picks! I'd love to enter :) Thanks for the opportunity!
A giveaway - hooray!I totally spent hours upon hours in Paper Source last summer for the wedding. Everyone was super eager to help me out because they loved my invitations!
Happy, happy blogiversary! :)Two years and going strong...look at you!What I've been up to: Trying to readjust to being back in classes. GROOOOAN. But I kinda love it. :)Your choices from PS are so, so lovely! Specifically, I'm diggin on the Paris notebook. I mean, does it get any dreamier?! :)
thanks everyone for entering! winner will be announced shortly... :)

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Oh Taste and See: Tulsa
Spring Break is finally here, so it was a quick finishing up of mid-term grades, and here we are now in Tulsa, in my aunt and uncle's house. Anza (short for Esperanza, Hope in Spanish) and Audra are both sleeping after a particularly hard night. We got in early yesterday afternoon, and went to St. Antony's before presanctified in order to talk to Father for different reasons. Audra, to ask Fr.'s blessing to be the sponsor of a friend of ours who's a catechumen there and is slated to be chrismated on Holy Saturday (which means a BIG trip for Mommy and Baby come late April, but Audra wants to do it, so...), and I to ask Father's forgiveness for speaking badly of him during my time as a catechumen under him (his way of putting things and my way of understanding things did not always mesh, which frustrated me--a frustration I made known to many people, save Fr. himself, of course). Thanks be to God, both requests were answered positively, so Audra will be a godmother (again!) and I am restored to a clear relationship w/the priest I do owe so much to.
After the talks with Fr., presanctified, Byzantine style. But first, a bunny trail!
I've said it before, but not on here (I don't think), that I converted to Orthodoxy in spite of the Eastern Rite, not because of it, as so many did. Not knowing how the (often rather complex) services ran at the time, the added confusion of the Byzantine tones (which I inevitably tried to dissect while hearing them) made for a stumbling block of sorts, though I still enjoyed the services, more or less. I was eager to join the Western Rite church when Audra and I moved to Ft. Worth, but Audra's clear preference of Eastern Rite led us to join the OCA parish--and I have to say, I'm glad. Not because of any animosity towards the Western Rite (on the contrary, I think it's a cause in the Church whose time has definitely come and through whose presence we as a Church will be enriched), but because I was able to experience Eastern Rite sans Byzantine tones, and this Russian expression of Orthodoxy has become my home. Now that I'm much more familiar with the flow of the Eastern Rite services (much more than I ever was with the Western ones), I can go back to St. Antony's and participate SO much more fully in the services...and now I'm thinking, "Wow, what pretty music!"
Back to presanctified. Father let me chant with Reader Michael and Mrs. Saliba, and I took ison (the "drone" underneath the melody)--gorgeous, eternal music. We seemed simply to rest in the presence of the Gifts which had been prepared for us last Sunday, humbly yet consistently approaching the throne in passionless waves, in ebbs and flows of praise and repentance. Afterwards, a Lenten meal with the few who showed up (including Julie, who showed up AFTER communion--Hi, Julie, if you're reading this! ::grin and wink::). Good food, several people asking me if I've been or am going to be ordained a sub-deacon soon...sigh...must be the cassock. Sepa Dios. God knows. Glad to say that I have absolutely NO desires either to pursue anything further in the ranks of the clergy or to run away from any calling I might feel otherwise. I always tell people who ask about that, "Ask me again when I'm thirty." Why the hell anyone would want to listen to a twenty-six year old kid is beyond me.
Will go today, God willing, to meet a cousin of Audra's who lives in Arkansas and whom Audra hasn't seen in years. St. Patrick's Day party over at the house of some friends from St. Antony's on Friday. Will call St. Barbara's in Ft. Worth on Fri. night to ask about whether or not the permit for occupancy went through; if so, we'll be heading back Saturday. If not, we'll just stay and go to Liturgy on Sunday @ St. Antony's (the thought occurs to me: if we were to move back to Tulsa, I would most likely have to attend Holy Apostles (the OCA mission) or ask for a release from Vladyka if I wanted to attend St. Antony's. Huh. Different world.)
Posted by Fr. David at Thursday, March 16, 2006
First, thanks for linking our radio show on your blog! (and for your email to us). Secondly, I know what you mean...we came in under the Antiochian Archdiocese and weathered the Byzantine tones, now I'm a reader in the OCA and for the last year have been learning the Russian tones. I have to say, I love things about both musical traditions and often miss the Byzantine services now that I'm away from them.
Byzantine tones?
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A little piece of heaven - Review of Quimby Country Lodge & Cottages, Averill, VT - TripAdvisor
A little piece of heaven - Quimby Country Lodge & Cottages
We just returned from our first trip to Quimby Country with our 4 yr old, 2 yr old, and two dogs. What else can we say except it was paradise. The meals were great, the accommodations were clean and comfortable, and our kids and dogs had the times of their lives (as did we!). In a lot of ways, going to Quimby is like going back in time - kids have fun building pinatas and terrariums and adults relax with wine and friendly conversation. When our kids went to bed, my husband and I played board games while drinking beers and watching the sun set over Forest Lake. Keelie, the wonderful counselor, was so great with all the kids (especially our little motor mouth) and she kept them busy with fun and imaginative activities. The other guests were really friendly and went out of their way to make us feel like we had been going to Quimby for years. This is a great place if you have kids and especially great if you want to find a place for kids AND dogs. It is wise to bring some "resort casual" attire for evenings, especially the cocktail hour on Sunday. We booked for 2013 before we left. I agree with other reviewers who said there is no place like it. It took me back to my own family vacations as a kid, hiking and swimming during the day, working on puzzles...We just returned from our first trip to Quimby Country with our 4 yr old, 2 yr old, and two dogs. What else can we say except it was paradise. The meals were great, the accommodations were clean and comfortable, and our kids and dogs had the times of their lives (as did we!). In a lot of ways, going to Quimby is like going back in time - kids have fun building pinatas and terrariums and adults relax with wine and friendly conversation. When our kids went to bed, my husband and I played board games while drinking beers and watching the sun set over Forest Lake. Keelie, the wonderful counselor, was so great with all the kids (especially our little motor mouth) and she kept them busy with fun and imaginative activities. The other guests were really friendly and went out of their way to make us feel like we had been going to Quimby for years.
Thank you to all the staff (especially Andrea and Courtney in the dining room) for making us feel so at home! And thank you to the resident dogs Cowboy and Sam for letting our daughter crawl and climb all over y'all and put her fingers in your mouth. She really enjoyed that :)More
We went to Quimby Country for my brother's wedding and it was fabulous. The drive there was an introduction to how beautiful and peaceful it was going to be. Ray and Kili were incredibly kind and welcoming to our large family and the many dogs that came along. They were always happy to help with anything that we needed and made us all feel right at home. The cottages were clean and well maintained. The lodge was adequately stocked with games, books, toys for the kids, but most often the kids were in the lake or fishing on the dock. The food was so good and coffee was already at sunrise in the lodge. Sitting on the porches was our favorite thing to do. I strongly encourage anyone looking for some place in the Northeast Kingdom to try this place. It is a great place for a family to be together.
Ask Christine W about Quimby Country Lodge & Cottages
My husband and I loved our stay at Quimby. We had a small, simple cabin for two near the lodge, which was very comfortable. Other cabins are larger, many with kitchenettes, and accommodate families. We chose the european meal plan and had breakfast and dinner at the lodge. On fridays, weather permitting, they have an all-you-can-eat lobster buffet next to the lake, which came with a beautiful sunset. Quimby also provides kayaks, canoes, and has a tennis court and raquets. They have walking trails on the property that get you to beaches for swimming and are very helpful in directing you to other places for outdoor fun in the area. If you've ever been to camp and loved the experience, you'll love Quimby.
Ask southendgirl05401 about Quimby Country Lodge & Cottages
We wanted to have a wedding at a place where as much of the family could join us as possible -- and also not have to worry about finding restaurants for 40 people, etc... A friend recommended Quimby's and we completely loved every part of the long weekend. Ray, the manager, was helpful, gracious and completely professional. We were in the middle of lots of moving activities, and had to leave the details to Quimby's. Kenn, a planner with much experience, helped make sure that everything was impeccably done from start to finish. Our whole family got to spend time together for the long weekend - canoeing, playing cards, dancing and just generally having a blast. Everyone enjoyed themselves and they're already planning other possible trips there for the future. I wish we could give them 6 stars!
Room tip: We stayed in Dusty Miller - very nice cabin. Everyone else enjoyed theirs too.
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Haven't been here since 91, it is still Lovely
My dad was brought up to Averill Lake since 1947. Later on when he had a family of his own he took my brother in 1977 than every year until I was born in 1981.We had spent the next decade plus. Going every summer to Quimby's lodge for "fancy" dinning and the always famous lobster picnics. We just looked at "the Lake" again since I have children of my own and I have to say that nothing has changed. It is without a doubt the best place I have ever been to in all my travels around the world. The peace this place can create is incredible. You will always get the best nights rest because there are no distractions anywhere.
Room tip: Any room is best but kitchenette is preferred
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No Place Like It In Vermont!
Quimby's has been around for well over 100 years perched on a plataeu in the northeastern most nook of Vermont amidst beautiful, deep lakes, the Connecticut River, and mountains. It is peaceful, charming, well-cared for, and steeped in history.
My wife and I have been going up to Quimby's for about 9 years both in the spring or fall seasons when only the cottages with kitchens (7 of 20) are available and occasionally during the main summer season when meals are served in the lodge and the chef is on staff.
If you like the outdoors you won't find a better place in New England to stay because there is so much to see and do right at your fingertips - fishing, hiking, swimming, boating, nature watching (lots of moose), biking....the list goes on. If you just want to sit and read books, relax and decompress from real life this is also your place. Each cottage has a porch overlooking forest lake complete with loons keeping you entertained and hummingbirds racing from one porch cabin to the next.
Quimby's also attracts wonderful guests and everyone I've ever met there appreciates what Quimby's has to offer and usually books their return trip before they've even left. The manager and staff go out of their way to ensure that you find what you are looking for at Quimby's or in the surrounding area. Need suggestions for a place to go for a hike, see moose, or want to go fly fishing.....you'll be all set.
One thing we really appreciate is that Quimby's is pet friendly. We always bring our dogs who may have a better time there than even we do. They have room to run and the lakes to swim. Quimby's is 3 miles from the nearest paved road.
Quimby's is also the perfect place for those people with children. You can cut them loose and not worry about their safety. Quimby's has counselors on staff during the summer session and all the adults keep an eye on each other's kids. Trust me, my sister-in-laws kids had an incredible time....swimming, tennis, kayaking, fishing, campfires, ping-pong,....
I can't wait for my next trip later this fall. I'll watch the leaves fall, the geese come in to roost at night on forest lake, and spend my days with the dogs chasing grouse and woodcock in the forests.
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JamesYlisela
Helllo, my names is James Ylisela. I am a video and social media editor at D S Simon Productions, a leading PR/communications video company. President and CEO's Vlog http://www.dssimonvlogviews.com has been getting slower and slower to load as well as play the videos (since is is a "vlog") This may be a problem because it has video on the site, however we use the embed code from google video so technically there is no video on the site. Is there any reason why it takes so long to upload? Is there anything we can do or you can do to make it go faster?
The problem is that you're loading the driver for each and every one of the videos. That's what's slowing it down. The video doesn't load until you click on the video and start playing it. Still loading the embed drivers though.
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Dolly Magazine Australia: Vampire Academy’s Zoey Deutch | Guardian Oath
WHAT WERE KIND OF PERSON WERE YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL?
My middle school experience was brutal. It was awful! I don’t know how to explain but it I was essentially the popular girl who got heavily bullied which seems completely ridiculous to say but I was mentally and physically so bullied that I left the school and went to an awesome arts school where people were actually passionate and excited about their lives and had goals opposed to just judging and tearing everybody apart. It really changed my life and who I am.
In America Middle School is horrible and I think the internet has really informed this global campaign against bullying because people are able to actually see how dreadful and disgusting kids can be to each other and the extent of how serious bullying can be. I see a direct correlation between everybody being able to see what’s on the internet instead of someone saying they’re being bullied. You can show people and it’s like ‘oh my gosh’.
HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH HATERS ON TWITTER ETC?
I guess my middle school experience prepared me! It doesn’t faze me too much now.
HOW DID YOU GET THROUGH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
I would be mean back. I’m not necessarily always proud of my reactions and I’m not one to hold grudges but the one person who was the proprietor of events, when I see him to this day I call him out on his actions and I know it’s not necessarily the right way to be but he still hasn’t ever apologised. I’m sure I’ll come to peace with it at some time in my life but for now I’m still not happy to see him.
I’m doing a couple things but the first step is a movie called ‘Midnight Rider’ which is an indie film about the Allman Brothers who were a band in the 70s and I play Mae who is a love interest who’s a lot like Kate Hudson in ‘Almost Famous’. She’s a young woman who uses her sexuality to manipulate men and obviously that drives her to deeper places of insecurity and not knowing how to handle herself in the most mature and respectable ways. So I’m super excited about that it’s very different from anything I’ve done!
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Heading back to Rolling River – for the Trifecta Week Ninety-two challenge | humanTriumphant
Posted on August 29, 2013 by Paul LeBron & Jody Standard	Springtime brings high water before commercial rafting kicks into gear. This year was no exception.
‘The Alley’, which some people called ‘The Witches Cauldron’, was brewing. Jilli called her ‘Alice.’
She was referring to the dump of a bowling alley in town that ran League Night, and more specifically to one of the little blue-haired ladies there who was a 7-time Senior Olympic bowling champion. Bet you can’t guess her name. Despite that alley’s warped floors – or maybe because of them – Alice Dunberry held her record as the Strike Queen for 10 years running. Despite her kyphosis, when she let loose of that ball, it tore through pins (that sometimes flew into other lanes).
Alice knew of Jilli’s nickname for the hydraulic. It tickled her to no end. In high water, it boiled and reversed, looking like something a surfer with a death wish would ride. If you made it past Alice, the rest of the run was spectacular. If you didn’t, everybody in your boat would end up like those bowling pins.
All our guides divided up and headed out to take on the challenge early that spring. Big Mike took his crew in first, yelling instructions to paddle forward, hard and fast. It looked like they were gonna’ make it ‘til one of his rookies turned ‘em broadside. Bodies went flying; carnage everywhere! Good thing Herschel was downriver to pick up the mess. Alice had gotten her first strike of the day.
Jilli turned and laughed, “Ahoy!” Then off she went with her crew. It looked like they were gonna’ make it by going straight through the damn thing. Instead, they went for a flip, with Jilli getting launched from stern over bow. She came up and waved – to my relief. Strike two.
“Anchors away!” I instructed, pushing off the boulder that had been housing us upriver. I sounded more confident than I felt. I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, Alice was about to land herself a turkey!
Trifecta challenged us this week to write 33-333 words (I ended at 333 – which happens to strangely be Today’s EXACT number of posts of my blog!) to include the 3rd definition of the word turkey, which happens to be what you see on the screen when you manage to make 3 strikes in a row in the bowling alley. (And on the few – as in, very rare – occasions I’ve managed to pull that off, you would’ve then see me strut around doing the moonwalk – in other words, looking like a turkey!)
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I wanted to try a different context than the bowling alley, though obviously still being true to the definition as given. That’s when I decided that Cody and Jilli could help me pull this one off beautifully (or at least with great enthusiasm) – with their adventures at an early 80’s commercial outpost start-up in the East, Rolling River (a novel I’ve been working on).
I hope you enjoy my take on it as much as I’ve enjoyed revisiting my favorite pair of crazy whitewater river guides.
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19 thoughts on “Heading back to Rolling River – for the Trifecta Week Ninety-two challenge”	joetwo says:	August 29, 2013 at 9:34 am	The river always wins! Good one!
Reply	humanTriumphant says:	August 29, 2013 at 10:06 am	That, it does. Thanks Joe! 🙂
Reply	Jennifer Dillon says:	August 29, 2013 at 12:21 pm	Brilliant way of transforming people to pins. I agree with Joe, the river always wins.
Reply	humanTriumphant says:	August 30, 2013 at 8:17 am	Some rivers better than others, yes! lol
Reply	KymmInBarcelona says:	August 29, 2013 at 1:07 pm	Out of the bowling alley and into the rapids! What a fun ride, Jody!
Also, I love both Alices.
Reply	humanTriumphant says:	August 30, 2013 at 8:19 am	So glad you came along for it, Kymm. I tried to leave you a comment on your sweet story that is so economically timely – but my (stupid) phone wouldn’t send it. Not sure why I can’t leave comments on others’ sites from it periodically???
Reply	Linda Vernon says:	August 29, 2013 at 1:23 pm	I loved the context you put this challenge in. Well Done. and I loved the Strike Queen!!
Reply	humanTriumphant says:	August 30, 2013 at 8:20 am	I’ll bet you could really build on a character like Alice, Linda. Would love to see your picture of her! hehe
Reply	Ye Pirate says:	August 29, 2013 at 1:28 pm	You tried – and succeeded something quite spectacular there Great analogy, lively and entertaining – highly enjoyable.
Reply	humanTriumphant says:	August 30, 2013 at 8:20 am	That makes my day, particularly coming from someone who sails the high waters! 🙂
Reply	Ye Pirate says:	August 30, 2013 at 8:22 am	For replies like that I will swim them, you have a way words!
Reply	Christine says:	August 29, 2013 at 2:35 pm	What a great way to move away from the obvious – a tricky thing, with such a specific prompt word. You did a fantastic job.
Reply	humanTriumphant says:	August 30, 2013 at 8:21 am	Thank you, Christine! 🙂
Reply	Ivy (Mommy Dourest) says:	August 29, 2013 at 3:00 pm	This is fantastic! Such a unique and clever take on the prompt. Well done!
Reply	humanTriumphant says:	August 30, 2013 at 8:21 am	thanks Ivy 🙂
Reply	Trifecta (@trifectawriting) says:	August 29, 2013 at 9:41 pm	Clever! Thanks for linking up!
Reply	humanTriumphant says:	August 30, 2013 at 8:22 am	thanks for having me 🙂
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Daniel Heywood: March 2009
Senior Portaits: Part Two
A couple weeks ago I stumbled across a couple John Michael Cooper videos about one of his shoot's and his post-production for that shoot. It was a new idea for me, and one I wanted to try asap. Take a look if you'd like to see him walk through his shoot. Or, you can continue on and get the ten peso version (I don't have a cameraman just yet) of my own first effort at this lighting technique.
The photo above (click it to see it larger) is the big idea we went out with when we headed to shoot Haleigh's senior portraits. I knew we'd shoot something more conventional afterwards (see previous post), and would probably even shoot again the next day (just for fun), but I wanted to shoot this idea whether or not she decided to use it. She was excited about it too.
And she had a great location in mind. Several old concrete and steel buildings, or what was left of their tumbled remains, largely hidden from view in a narrow span of trees tucked between one city and the next. After we arrived I wanted to stop and shoot everywhere along our way as we walked to the place we ultimately decided to shoot. The place isn't great because it's pretty. Because it's ugly. But cool ugly.
Here's the quick rundown of the shot. Camera set two stops under the ambient during a cloudless mid-afternoon (in the photo above you can see that it was actually bright and sunny outside). Lit using only one strobe. Twenty frames, put together in post with Photoshop. If you're a quick study, the picture, and the previous three sentences are all you need to know to go and try it out yourself. If you're still not quite sure, read on.
Once we picked a specific location, I spent a few minutes composing the scene precisely. Which was different than my usual perpetual exploration of the composition throughout a shoot, as I explore the interaction of the subject and his or her surroundings, getting different angles and looking for something that works. But this particular shot required sticking the camera on a tripod and sticking with the one composition.
Next we decided on a pose. Important to get this right too, since we were essentially taking one shot. In a way this is restricting, but also refreshing to be able to make the choice, and be done with it, and focus on other things besides choosing different poses throughout a shoot.
Then we took several different shots of Haleigh as I held a speedlight to light her face. I was in frame, but that would be taken care of easily in post. Dang it if she couldn't sit still! She did maintain the same general pose, but she's so animated that she kept leaning forward and back up again as we tried getting several different expressions to choose from for the final image. I was concerned that her movement would make it a pain to blend her face into the final image, but it was cake, largely thanks to the darkness of much of the image, which made it easy to hide slight shifts in her overall posture.
After that, she maintained her pose as I went throughout the scene and popped the strobe wherever I felt like would be a good place. Note in the photo above that I was actually in frame as I did this, but I'd be easily removed in post because I only used the flashlit portion of each frame. We took about 35 shots (some redundant it turns out), but didn't like all of them and ended up with nineteen or twenty frames that went into the final composite. As we shot, I came back and checked the camera screen after I took several shots, then shot some more.
In post, I selected the images to put into the scene, and with layers in Photoshop combined the flash lit portions of each image all into one composite image. Some of the flash pops were too bright, so I didn't layer them all in at 100% opacity. I also darkened the sky some, to help keep the high contrast of that area from being a distraction. Although I went for a low-key image, this technique could very well be used to create an image full of light.
You can do this any time of day. Noon, sunny, whatever. Just manually set the camera under one or two stops, then an unmodified speedlight is more than powerful enough at close range to overpower the sunlight. You'll need something to wirelessly trigger your strobes (click here to learn more about speedlights, how to trigger them, and to learn a great deal more than you bargained for).
We shot again the next day, without any strobes. I think I may talk briefly about that in another post.
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Senior Portraits: Part One
Haleigh wasn't interested in what is typical for senior portraits in the area she lives (often cheesy). So I presented her some photo ideas that weren't the norm, and we went and played with a few of them. In the end, she did choose to have her guitar in some of them so as to appease mom with a symbol of her talents without cheesily holding a paintbrush.
These photos here are actually not one of the original ideas I presented to Haleigh. But, after the first part of the shoot, which was more involved, I quickly scouted out this location to make a lighter and cleaner portrait from the more dramatic and moody image we shot first, thinking these would be more to the taste of Haleigh's mom (in my next post I'll cover the first part of our shoot, which I think turned out pretty cool). The series of photos in this post were shot pretty quickly, only a handful really, and we stopped when we had something that worked since she had an appointment to keep.
For both series of photos we were at an old abandoned building, what was left of it, and the wall-less second level is raised up on concrete slabs and covered in dirt and soot. Nature was reclaiming the place, and I used the upraised level of the building to get a shot of tree, sky and mountain in the background, so as to avoid the grungier post-earthquake-rubble-fifty-years-later look that surrounded us.
Being mid-afternoon without any clouds, I tamed the hard light by bringing the ambient down with my exposure settings, and filling from the opposite direction with flash. Because I was using flash, my shutter speed maxed out at 250 (the max sync speed of my camera), so I took the exposure down the rest of the way by closing down my aperture. The trick was to stop down far enough to prevent blowing out of the mountain behind, while still being able to have enough strobe power to get through my smaller aperture. To offset the sunlight coming down from camera right, I stuck three speedlights in a silver umbrella, each at half power, coming in from camera left. (I ended up at about f/11 at 1/250 sec.) Since the strobes were close to Haleigh, they were a close match to the intensity of the sunlight.
I could also have gone a bit faster with my shutter speed, which would have the flash taking no effect on the edge of the frame where Haleigh was not standing, but that's a trick I have yet to try and it wasn't on my mind at the time.
I used three light stands, one for each light. The tri-legs of the lightsands were closed up, and they were all clustered together and held by my lovely assistant, as they fired into the umbrella. If I had one, I'd have used a TriFlash bracket, just to un-clumsy the set-up.
Time for a confession. The original images were darker than these, but I pushed up the exposure in post. The slight darkness was a mistake on my part, but fortunately a small one which shooting in raw helped to be amendable. My error was in not shooting either my hand or the subject or a stand-in up close, which would have allowed me to get an accurate meter reading for the light that reflected off only her skin. Instead, I mistakenly metered from far back, thus metering for the whole scene. My histogram gave me a good read, but the mild nagging unease about whether or not the exposure on her face was bright enough didn't get through to the part of my brain that should have told me to go meter up close on her face and use that histogram to tell me how to adjust my camera and/or lights. Later, when I got the images on the computer screen, I saw I had a good exposure for the background (having taken the mid-afternoon light down to an early evening level of light), but her face was a touch underlit from what I wanted. I had adequately balanced the strength of the ambient light with the strength of my strobes, but what I really needed was to either have the strobes be a touch brighter, or to have the whole scene brighter (by opening up my aperture to allow more light in from both sources, or by increasing the ISO). A wider aperture or higher ISO would have threatened to blow out the lightest parts of the mountain, which I'd prefer to avoid. So, increasing my strobes to full power, or adding another light would have been my preferred first option at bringing up the light on her face.
In the end, with the top photo, we got something fun and that showed a bit of Haleigh's personality, while being a bit different than what she normally thought of as a senior photo. In the next post I'll talk about the first photo we made just prior to this series. It's a bigger idea that was even further from typical, and I think looks pretty cool.
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