This is a fresh edit of one of the early photos taken with my first DSLR (Nikon D70), from January 2005, the filename indicates it was the 53rd photo taken with the camera. I took several snaps of this bottle, and had previously edited one with a slightly closer perspective. That one got posted here back in 2017.
Taken on one of the trails at Highland's Silver Lake Park, where I used to go for lunchtime walks when I worked in Highland, IL.
A little slow posting this, but Rick Derringer passed away this week, May 26th.
I was a big Derringer fan back in my early/mid teen years. I had his first 2 albums (All American Boy and Spring Fever), as well as his 1977 Derringer Live, which remains one of my favorite "live" albums. I picked up the album "If I weren't So Romantic I'd Shoot You" when I was in college, and in the digital age filled out with a couple of his early albums, and some of his straight blues releases.
As I noted in a 2017 blog post: "OK, Rick Derringer has been one of my “guilty pleasures” since my mid-teens. Nobody’s going to argue that his lyrics surpass Dylan, or his melodies beat the Beatles. But you know what? Sometimes it is enough to just Rock And Roll. And Derringer can certainly rock. Good time, 70’s vintage rock. I’ll admit it, at 18 years old, I owned more Derringer albums than I did Beatles and Stones combined. And, I think he’s one of the more underrated guitar players of the era. "
I originally loved Derringer for those mid-70's straight ahead rock and roll records, built around excellent guitar playing. But he has a huge body of work, including producing and session work. I particularly enjoy his blues records from later on (check out Three Kings).
Sorry to see another blast from my past has now passed....
What do you think?
I spent some time yesterday trying to take photos that reflect what I normally wouldn’t notice, what I would miss if I wasn’t paying attention. So on a trip to one of our local parks, I decided to change my perspective, bringing only my wide angle zoom (10mm-24mm). And looking beyond my normal types of subjects. So, here’s a couple of photos from that walk, certainly outside what I consider my “normal”, but I rather like them. Which do YOU prefer? And why?
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It's called the moon....
Waxing Crescent moon... Stars, Planets.
Just a little phone photo.
I saw a new (to me) bird the past couple of days, was finally able to get some decent photos:
This is a Gray Catbird. Pretty cool, I liked his/her black "cap". Anyway, it got me thinking about the old saying about being "in the catbird seat"... I don't remember the last time I heard it, but I know my mother used to say it. I'd never really thought much about it, until now.
Wikipedia tells me: "'The catbird seat' is an idiomatic phrase used to describe an enviable position, often in terms of having the upper hand or greater advantage in any type of dealing among parties. It derives from the secluded perch on which the gray catbird makes mocking calls. Another source says "The phrase appears to have originated in the American south, although the date and circumstances are uncertain. ."
