The Bald Heretic

A few shots from Thursday night. I took with me my new flash, my Sony 50mm and my Sony 16mm fisheye.

The 50mm has not been seeing a lot of use lately. I favor the Sigma 30mm for a bit wider angle. I forget how glorious this lens can be. Handheld, no flash portrait of Craig Kinsey of the Sideshow Tramps.

Only now beginning to play with the fisheye. Of course, on a cropped sensor camera like mine, the fishseye does not give you the full 180° field of view. It actually comes out to 120°. You need a full frame camera like the Alpha 900 (which I am successfully resisting at this time) to get the full effect. Still, interesting. Wireless flash on the floor to my left. Check out the shadows!

This was shot at point blank range of a very three dimensional art piece by Nicole Nasso hanging at The Upstairs Gallery.

What really strikes me about the fisheye is the color reproduction and the spectacular sharpness and depth of field.

I’ve a lot to learn about he fisheye and the flash.

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In keeping with our idea of sending out non-traditional holiday cards, this is the picture we created for our Dia De Los Muertos card.

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The grand opening of the Houston House Of Blues was quite the event. They had the street blocked off to traffic as spotlights lit the Houston sky. The line of invited guests circled the block, waiting to get into the event.

the evening began with a performance by Wanda King which was followed by a choral peformance by a choir based out of New Orleans. Then Deb Eybers, president of The House Of Blues came out and toasted Houston as the latest member of the House Of Blues family.

The crowd was pretty worked up and ready when The Blues Brothers hit the stage. Jim Belushi did a fine job in his role and was not a distraction in the least.

The rest of my pictures from the evening are here.

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Thursday Concerts on the Green @ Discovery Green featuring The Suspects.

Additional photos here.

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Spotted @ The Bayou City Art Festival

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There’s a lot of buzz around Houston surrounding the opening of our very own House Of Blues. I was lucky enough to tag along with one of my music cohorts and photograph Dan Aykroyd who’s in town to promote the grand opening which will feature a performance by the Blues Brothers.

Say what you will about The Blues Brothers not being the original band due to the death of John Belushi, the show promises to be pretty spectacular. They’ve rounded up some of the most legendary musicians around and all expectations are that the show is to be one for the ages.

Sadly, the event is invite only. You can possibly score tickets through the Ticketmaster auction. Also, The Houston Press is giving away a few pairs.

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Found @ Walmart Canada.

*EDIT*

To be fair, this was likely accomplished by manipulating the image ID in the URL and was never posted like this on the actual Walmart site. Still, bad webmastering exploited in such a manner is rather humorous. Much like when someone hotlinks to your hosted image and you just swap the image for something more “interesting.”

It does appear that Walmart is trying to fix the bug.

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Mr. Zippers passed away this afternoon after a heroic fight to cheat death which began back in July.

We thought he had made a full recovery, but he began to show signs to the contrary right after hurricane IKE. I suspect the stress of that event and the days that followed were probably too much for him.

We adopted Mr. Zippers in 1999. He came to be a beloved pet and member of our quirky little family. Ultimately, he was Cynthia’s bird. Mr. Zippers hated me and tried to bite me any chance he could.

Still, I loved that little guy.

We both did.

Mr. Zippers will be sorely missed.

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