My orchid has started to drop it’s blossoms. It was a good run (I think… I admit to not knowing much about orchids). Last night while the bacon wrapped scallops were in the broiler, a bottle of Sutter Home was cracked and out came the tripod. I think these came out rather nice. The first and second are my favorites. Love those moody gray tones.

ah, blogging… an honest attempt at informing the world of what I’ve been doing, seeing and thinking. How I’ve neglected you. How I promise to post often, and to litter you with creative ideas. Alas. (can alas be a sentence on it’s own?). Alas, I do not know if alas can be a sentence on it’s own.

Right then.

Fact is, lots of things have been happening lately. Sitting down to write about them has been on the list, but somehow other things arise.

Buffalo has received some peculiar and interesting weather lately. I’ve had the chance to meet and photograph some really fun people. I’ve started a new job (two weeks down!). I’ve ventured into dangerous places on Thursday evenings. There has been lots of sleeping. I saw the new Pixar movie (highly recommended, as always).

We’ll begin with weather. One of the first things I liked about Buffalo is that in contrast to Rochester, the skies are much more interesting. I came home from work and saw some very neat light in the back yard:

Soon after that the skies grayed over and chunks of ice started falling out of the sky. I’d secretly hoped it’d get more interesting. Chunks of ice will have to do. Many cars in the area were dented repeatedly. I like having a garage. Proof that this happened:

Somewhere in my parents’ basement is a box full of things from grade school. My mom has been asking me to sort through it for several years now. If we were to dig through it, we’d probably find a collection of my mom’s photography - a single series that took over ten years to complete. At the start of each school year, Mom would break out the polaroid and take a picture of her son on his first day of school. New sneakers, jeans, and backpack (probably twice as large as him). Scott, on the porch, staring at his feet because he was embarrassed that his mom just had to take a picture. How uncool. Nobody else’s mom did this stuff.

This month I accepted a position at a big toy company. My first day was two weeks ago. Here you go, mom.

Oh, dangerous things on Thursday. There is this location by the side of the road by I-90 where I’m dying to put a model. I drive past it pretty often and every time I want to pull over and check it out. Not a great idea. So Thursday I gather the motivation to go scout out this spot. Park the car in a nearby neighborhood, cross the on and off-ramps and tromp on into the field with cars and semis whipping past at 80mph. Did I mention it was 11pm? Dark, uncharted territory. Tripod in tow. Is this illegal? I didn’t manage to get to the spot I’d hoped. I think it’s best for a covert operation in the day. While out there, I did take a few long exposures. My spot is right next to the road here.

I’ve always wanted to shoot these towers of power. Look closely and you can see the lightning of a storm rolling through.