OverExposed

orchid, originally uploaded by Tracy Lee.

Flickr has been flaky this week and I've lost the ability to see when all my friends have posted new photos. I miss my daily photo stream!

Daniel Johnston Dance Party last weekend at the Black Cat for Pancake Mountain, tonight we've got a photo shoot for the next DVD cover.

And my weekend is packed with Artomatic meetings.

I did some macro photos yesterday as I'm working on growing orchids. A new crop of flowers all bursting at once. When I let the camera choose the exposure & d.o.f. it prefers to go with a very low depth of field. When I'm shooting macro sometimes I want to up this so more than a tiny little bit of the shot is in focus. The problem with this is with an increased depth-of-field suddenly ~everything~ is in focus... including all the dust on the lens and the sensor. Suddenly I'm spotting negatives again.

Never realized how dirty all my gear was. Ick.

// posted by Tracy @ 2:11 PM 1 Comments

Self Portrait in the Ladies Room with Duncan at the Black Cat, originally uploaded by Tracy Lee.

Daniel Johnston last night at the Black Cat. It was a very interesting evening (still processing photos).

Today I had lunch with John McCain. There was a distinct lack of Secret Service (which is surprising). His wife was on her cell phone most of the time while he kept his baseball cap on throughout the meal. I am taking the wearing of the hat to mean "I am not who you think I am, and I'm off-duty anyway, let me eat my noodles in peace." I couldn't think of anything to say to him other than I HOPES YOU DON'T WIN so I didn't bother him. Now that I'm home and watching the news with Nader hoping back into the race and Clinton firing "I'm more patriotic than you" bullshit comments to Obama (Dear Democrats: Please to be stopping arguing amongst yourselves, you are not the enemy, please focus attention on the Republicans and at least try to appear to have a united front - k? thnx,bye) I'm thinking if i see McCain again I'll go shake the hand of the man who will become President.

Stopped by the Glass3 exhibit today in Georgetown, was very impressed by the show, took some photos. Some really good stuff, some weird stuff, some funny pieces and a couple ?er?? but overall it was a very good representation of the artistic glass movement.

photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracyleephoto/sets/72157603976524064/

On the way home I went by the gym and re-upped my membership. What the hell. My work-out regime - when left to myself - is non-existent and admitting this to myself means joining the gym and making myself get on some sort of exercise schedule. Left to the "when I have the time" means I never have the time, but paying a monthly fee is motivation enough to get my ass into gear and go use the facility.

// posted by Tracy @ 5:57 PM 1 Comments