Hello world!

This is my first attempt at a blog of any sort. So forgive me of my ignorance as to what to write and how to write it. However as my title suggests it is just another day, week, month, or year in my life. This blog will cover more about my photography than anything else. But rest assured, I will throw some things in that will be about anything.

Okay, so about the photography. I have one blog that I follow, actually 2, the blog of David Tejada and Strobist. This guy is awesome in my opinion and that is where I would like to be. Doing the same thing as he is doing. But I am a long way off from that, for now. I choose the photo above for several reasons. The first being that I used 2 flash units for the photo and second being the recent activity on the so called "end of the world" scenario as depicted by the Mayans a long, long time ago and its correlation with other religions and beliefs.

For this shot I used a Sunpack 383 super for the background light. A snoot with a honeycomb attachment and a red gel was used on it to get the effect. as you can see the light is not exactly flat but has semi-wavy property to it close to a red-hot ember. The calender itself is lighted by a slave with a built-in snoot (the type that retracts to save space when not in use) plus a flag to help keep light fall-off away from the background. The use of the flag is because of the closeness of the background.

Now for the second reason. Most people believe that December 21, 2012 will be the end of the world because the calender stops on that day. This is not true and if anyone were to look at the information a lot closer they'll see that it means an end to an era. For the Mayans a 5125 year era, I believe that's how long the calendar is before it starts over again. The end of the age of Pisces. The beginning of the age of Aquarius. How about that.

This is also the date that our solar system crosses the equatorial plane of the Milky Way. I believe there will be some things that will happen that won't be pretty. But, it will not be the end of the world at all. However it will be the end of the world as we know it now. So people will just have to be prepared to help each other once it begins. This is why the background of my photo is red but the calender is as neutral as it can get. By the way it is made out of bone..Hmmm


Next week - "A Plastic war"