Tilt-shift is a way to greatly reduce the depth of field of a photograph. The effect is to make the subject look like a miniature, as though constructed as a tabletop model. The effect is traditionally accomplished with a tilt-shift lens that can create the effect in camera. There are a few very expensive professional tilt-shift […]
We’re celebrating in our household; the kids have just finished a particularly arduous end to the semester. So arduous that guitar time was restricted to prevent diversion from the tasks assigned, if you know what I’m saying. That behind us, it was time to pick up the music once again. Here my son demonstrates some […]
This is a bit of a vanity post. This Pinewood Derby car is a car I built for a “Dad’s Category” in a Pinewood Derby race that my kids also raced in several years ago. I thought it was pretty innovative, though I have seen many “guitar cars” since then. However, I have mostly seen […]
This “abandoned” helmet wasn’t so abandoned. I found it hanging in a mostly abandoned barn. Whatever the helmet was used to ride on was no longer present. However, something had made good use of it. I do not know for sure who the new tenant was. The Carolina Wren is known for creative nesting locations, […]