2011-04-03: Support Our Troops!

Sue and I had a reallly good day today. We went for a nice long ride. Went to a couple of antique stores looking for old china for Taylor's wedding. Found some. Also found an old chest that was really inexpensive to use as a coffeee table. Good score! Went to Common Man in Ashland and had a great lunch and a couple of pops. Next we went to the CM gift shop and found a couple of flags. That was important, because our next trip was to Manchester to pick up our friend Dave who was returning from overseas. Dave is on leave from the Army for a couple of weeks. Dave's wife works with Sue, and she broke her ankle badly a coupke weeks ago slipping on the ice. Dave wanted to surprise his wife (Susan) and didn't tell her he was coming home. So Sue and I got the honor of picking him up at the Airport. It gave us goosebumps seeing Dave getting off the plane. We proudly waved our flags so he could see us.

A Real Hero

This is Dave hugging my Sue. And you can see that he is glad to be home! And I'm not jealous because I got a big hug too! lol

This shot was taken with my flip video and  the shot was stripped out using some free capture software from X2X. Really simple to use software.

And we did get Dave home to surprise his wife. Sue called her and asked to stop by under some pretense to see how she was doing with her broken ankle. She was kind of down because she's been in pain, and misses Dave (hadn't seen him since September). Anyway, mission accomplished! We got Dave home and Sue was in shock!

Mission Accomplished

Sue and I feel really good that we could help in some small way. What a great day!

God bless America. Support Our Troops!
Em

2011-04-02: Kellie & Craig Wedding Picture

Yikes, it's already 4:20 pm and haven't posted yet today. I've been busy running errands. Last load of Ashley's stuff from the old apartment to the new one, taking my glasses up to be repaired (dropped them off the bedside table and lost a screw), Lowes to pick up supplies to make a sign holder for the art show next week, picking up coffee for the Kuerig, what else? I don't know but it seems like it's been go go go. So I haven't taken a picture today and I'm going to go through my folder and pull out something,
AH! Here's one...It is a picture from our friends Kellie and Craig who got married last month. Now, we know I'm not very comfortable taking pictures of human's, but they asked me to take some pictures. I warned them, but they asked anyway. And they were very happy with this one:

The Kozens'

Aperture: F/3.5; Exposure: 1/60s; ISO-400, With Flash

This was taken at the Woodshed restaurant in Moultonboro last month. The lighting was horrible and it was so dark, I really couldn't tell if the pictures were in focus when I looked through the viewfinder...I don't know how the pros do it. Other people with cameras kept jumping up in front of me. I was really stressing trying to get something decent. But I did get some good ones. I'll have to read up on that wedding photography. You never know when I'll have to do it again!
But the important thing was that Kellie and Craig were happy with what I did get. It was a wonderful wedding and I'm so happy that I got to be a part of the celebration.
Best of luck guys! See you soon.

-Em

2011-04-01: Emery Swanson Photo Sells for $1 million Dollars! TTE Part 4

Woo hoo! Yes that's right! I made my first sale!
The fourth installment in the "Though the Eyes..." series has sold for 1 million dollars!  The idea was given to me by one of my repected followers, Jordan of Laconia... Jordan responded to my request for ideas for the TTE series. Jordan's idea is here in living color..Through the Eyes...

...Of a Dead Goldfish

Aperture: F/64 ; Exposure: 3 hours; ISO: 3200 

Taken by placing my camera in a ziploc bag with a 10 second delay and dropping it in the toilet.

Now I can afford a new camera after the ziploc leaked.... All right, I know...April Fools...

But making the big score could happen. It did for one of my favorite photographers, Peter Lik. Check out this link to a photo called "Once " that he took in NH on the Androscoggin River. This really did sell for a million bucks back in January. Unbelievable art. By the way, this isn't a joke. Peter Lik - Once. Oh, and Peter has a new show on the Weather Channel on Thursday nights where he travels the world and shows us how he gets his shots. Check it out.

Ok, enough of the hijinks...Have a good day!

By the way, we are encountering a snow storm here in NH..No really... I swear. It's happening right now! Why doesn't anyone believe me?

Em