Stormy Snowy and Peaceful

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My favorite pictures are the ones that capture the moment as I saw it or with the best ones, felt it. 

I look at memory as a fast-moving flip book. I don't remember in fluid thought. I remember snapshots, smells, a sound. A picture can bring the other senses back. Its why I chose this shot for yesterday. Stormy, snowy and peaceful. Exactly where you'd want to be. 

Capturing moments the way you remember them is particularly hard with people; it's what makes portraits so difficult. Sometimes I cheat and use series of shots, like these three of Stacey yesterday, but still capturing the way I see a person, in a frozen instant, can rarely do them justice. 

Doggy Gothic

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They are a bit serious. Here's the real Doggy Gothic (click the link). 

They are quite the pair, the Chow-Collie mutt fur ball and the Coonhoundish sweetheart. This morning they sprinted back and forth through the snowblown path to the bus, Espresso barking incessantly directly in Charlottes ear whenever she'd stop as if the big-floppy things blocked her hearing.

"Hello! Hello! PLAY! PLAY!"

And then they'd run. Play.

Then Charlotte would stop. 

"PLAY! PlAY! Can you hear me?! PLAY!"

And they'd take off running again, snow flying, tails wagging. Parents laughing. It's a bit of puppy love, those two. 

Pizza Night

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Stacey and Charlotte joined Espresso and I for Pizza night. Espresso had his share this morning while we were at breakfast, pulling the scraps off the dirty plates on the counter.

Portland Pie Beer dough, hand cut pepperoni, mushrooms, peppers, onion, artichoke hearts, mozzarella and parmesan cheese...

Hungry?

Take Out

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"Shit, was time is it?"

11:45

My camera was empty. I had 15 minutes left to take a picture.

Click.

There's almost always background noise in my head. When I am focused at work, there's still the buzz of groceries, dinner, evening plans, Espresso, budget, running through my head. When I'm home, work often hums in the background. It's not negative noise. It's life noise. Reality. This project has become part of the static at times, "I need to take a picture," or "What am I going to write about?" And that's okay.

Still, the best moments are the ones that take me away. They distract. They turn down the background noise. They mute it. Escapes.

Happiness.