Tripping The Low-Light Fandango

My passion (photographically) is low light and available light photography. I love my lenses wide and fast and when that’s not suitable I mount the camera on tripod and shoot extended exposures.

Cynthia has recently shown an interest in this type of photography and I’ve been showing her what I know. We bought her a nice tripod and a 35mm f/2.0 lens and setup in front after dark in of the house to shoot the front door since it has leaded glass and has interesting light properties. She caught on pretty quick.

I suggested we try some new scenery and on Saturday night, after our customary Italian dinner, we proceeded on to Discovery Green to engage in some after dark shutter shenanigans.

We had a good time and Cynthia made several breakthroughs in her understanding of low-light photography. She doesn’t want to publish anything to the web yet, but I am going to share with you a shot she took that night…

The interesting thing about this photo to me is the fact that it’s an extended exposure of me taking an extended exposure shot of something else. Cynthia figured out that she could catch me holding still right after I triggered my shot, allowing her to capture me clearly at 1/2 second exposure and no flash. Good job Cynthia!

House Is Level

I was stopped no less than 4 times by readers of this blog as I was out and about and asked about the foundation repair and for a wrap up of events. I didn’t think anyone was all that interested, and I certainly did not mean leave you all in a lurch.

I am happy to say the work was completed the same day and all is well. Our home is whole and intact. Yay!

They cleaned up everything and you can hardly tell they were here at all. Here are a few parting shots of the work in progress which will give you an idea of why we might have been concerned regarding that point.

Olshan did a fine job. The house is level level level. They hauled away all the equipment, filled all the holes, replaced the displaced landscaping and poured fresh concrete on the driveway and the front porch. The doors close easily and the cracks in the dining room, the TV room and the outside wall have all closed up as the house was jacked back up into its original position.

The birds are recovering from their trauma and this will be forgotten as we pile on the treats and scritchums to make up for them having to go through this.

Jackhammer

They say there are two kinds of houses in Houston. Those that need foundation repair and those that will need foundation repair. We just changed from the second to the first category.

The jackhammer is freaking out the birds a little. The house is vibrating, and not in the good way. Thanks god I’m not hungover with a headache and thank technology for telecommuting.

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