016/365 Discharge

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The hours are drawing near and I had yet to capture my image for the day. We have had an extraordinary day at the firehouse today. I would not say busy, but we have not had this many runs in quite some time (8 so far). I really don't believe that we will sleep through the night.

Thankfully I have my trusty Sigma 105mm macro lens and many subjects around the station. With 2 hours and 38 minutes left I submit #16 of project 365.

010/365 Ready

Entry #10 of Project 365. My gear stands at the ready. I am riding as the officer of the engine company today and my major is driving for me. It's kind of a switch around, but the major is under the weather and his voice is less then desirable for talking and giving commands so he let me ride as officer.

I am still playing with the lighting techniques from strobist.com. I set the camera to shoot the ambient light -2 ev (2 stops below what it thinks would be a correct exposure). The flash, a Vivitar 850AF set at 1/8 power @85mm was held by a voice activated lighting stand (me).

This is not perfection. I have come to realize that in this project I will have to shoot down and dirty from time to time and expect less than perfection. Achieving perfection normally prevents me from "wasting my time" by taking photos that I see as not worth the effort if I cannot get them perfectly. So I quickly set this shot up, and in less than 10 minutes I had it posted online. Maybe I can learn that perfection is not always the goal, sometimes the journey is the experience not the outcome.

Project 365 (The beginning) 001/365

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01 January 2009. I have started the Project 365. My original idea for a photo like this was from on top of the 100 foot ladder truck, but since it is a brisk seventeen degrees (F) outside I decided against climbing the ladder.

I hope everyone had a safe and happy new year celebration. My day today will be spent driving this engine. My neighbors (in the 4 block radius) decided it would be fun to pop off a few rounds of their semi-automatic guns around midnight (11:54 is when it began). That was a pleasent way to be woken up from a peaceful sleep. Gun control begins with the morons who own them. Thats why it never works!