> Hope you're all enjoying your holidays.
Rather more than I expected to, actually.
Nothing Pentax under the tree, but my youngest brother did give
me a monopod! Oooh, this puppy is gonna be _useful!_.
Had dinner at the home of my middle brother's in-laws, along with
a large number of their other friends and relatives; they're itching
to see the photos I took at my brother's wedding (the BW are developed
but I've only got contacts; the colour is still in the freezer; _one_
BW print (group photo w/bridesmaids & groomsmen in IR) is printed 8x10
(thanks, TV!) and it got _great_ reactions). A couple people peered
at the contacts and said they liked what they saw. The father said
he wished he'd had me shoot the wedding instead of the fellow they
hired -- thing is, I wasn't trying very hard 'cause I figured the
photography was basically covered and I didn't want to duplicate his
work (other than shooting over his shoulder for the posed shots using
IR -- but that's a different enough look to not be just duplicating
his work). The father also wants one of my colour IR shots of the
Maryland Renaissance Festival -- he was looking at an 8x10 and saying,
"I want to blow this up". While I was showing him my photos, my mom
wandered over and asked whether I was annoying him. "Glenn thinks
he's a photographer," she said, "You should see Maria's photos."
(Maria is my sister.) *grrrrr* (The fact that Maria wasn't
there was a good thing for other reasons...)
OTOH, my mother did really like the pin I made for her (the shape
of Cyprus (her birthplace) cut out of brass, with the name in Greek
("Kypros" but in Greek letters, of course) engraved in the middle
and filled with blue ink, so I did get something other than
negativity from her. (But she did have to tack on "and master of
none" to someone else's "Jack of all trades" comment upon hearing
that I'm a programmer/analyst, photographer, and musician. I may
not be as good a photographer as I'd like to be yet, but it was
certainly uncalled for regarding the other two. *sigh*)
Oh bother! I saw a shot for the "Reflections" PUG (August 2002)
but couldn't get it at the time -- I made a note to get it later
when people had moved, but never did. Argh.
So anyhow, on the whole I had a good time, got a piece of photo
equipment I've needed for a while, got praise for my photos,
shot a few frames, and was fed. Mom wasn't as negative as she
could've been. I guess the loss of one of my Christmas-ornament
earrings (broken accidentally by my brother's mother-in-law) was
a small price to pay for the evening's fun. (Fortunately, it was
an inexpensive earring. She felt bad about it though.)
Hope everyone else's holiday (well, for the folks who celebrate
it) was at least as good as mine.
-- Glenn
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