Jim

It’s a hipstamatic holiday!

Feasting this weekend? With glorious weather and a humongous assortment of reasons to be thankful, I had the privilege of attending 2 fab functions to celebrate the season.

It’s not always a good idea to show up at these events with the gadget bag, tripod and assorted accoutrements of the photo trade, unless of course you have been asked to do so in exchange for payment of some form or other. 🙂

However I was a guest, and so had to show a little discretion with the photos. However, you know me, if there’s a “scene” I have to take advanage. Bu the iphone does take awesome images at least for the web, and this one was taken with a cool app called Hipstamatic.

minolta And then there is Jim. When I got my very first 35mm SLR (which I still have BTW) he would tolerantly let me “take pictures” of him anytime anywhere! Early morning even before coffee (yikes!) or, more formally, as I attempted to practice the finer points of portraiture.

As well as having almost infinite patience for these artistic quirks, Jim was a very handsome guy, – it was impossible to take a bad photo of him. For years I mistakenly attributed all those good photos of him to my emerging photographic talent, and I coasted on this grand deception for ages until, over time I actually did become a pretty good photographer. (And it wasn’t till much later a portrait pro pointed out the various flaws in my subsequent portrait photos, that I came to know the embarrassing truth – my early success was a fluke and the beauty was all Jim and not me.)

Happy Thanksgiving

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