This one is for Susan…
What I really like about this is how simple it is (or seems to be.) A little girl, a video camera, and a book. There is some good editing and directing hidden behind the scenes, but it doesn’t show (which is one reason it is so good.) Did you catch the little girl whispering a key camera direction?
Mike Chavez is responsible for most of the photographs on the St. John Neumann website. He travels on most Life Teen trips, takes a lot of great shots, and uploads them to the SJN gallery.
I draw from his photos to populate the random banner that appears at the top of the website. This photo at Covecrest was very interesting because the dormant winter grass behind the crosses created near zero contrast, so they did not show up very well. However, because of the angle of reflection in the water, the light brown crosses, did show against the blue sky and green trees.
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To accentuate this effect, I turned anything above the waterline gray scale and enhanced the colors below the waterline.
Today I took Claire to the post office to pick up a birthday package from Gramalie. The postman attempted to deliver it on Wednesday, but only left a note with “Failure to Deliver” reason: “Dogs.”
We then went to Starbucks where she got a banana muffin and then camera shopping. She is very excited to have her own camera. A Fuji Finepix electric blue like Madison’s.
Later we fed an earwig* to my Venus Flytrap. Within 2 minutes, the little critter crawled right into one of the traps and was quickly and neatly captured. How much fun is that? Claire wants to video the next feeding with her new camera. We’ll post it here.
* The name comes from the old wives’ tale that earwigs burrow into the brains of humans through the ear and therein lay their eggs.
I made this snapshot because I thought it represents the phenomenon of Facebook. Grandmother, son, and granddaughter. And a couple of aunts in the mix: Aunt Patsy and Jami! Funny.
