Penning Photography Daily

My sister Trish, Patricia, Patty Jean (she hates me to use the last one).

I have two sisters.

Trish and Mary Anne (note the “e”).

We had dinner provided by my brother Nick and his wife Mary Ann (note – no “e”), with Trish and my bride Karen. Nick & Mary Ann were thanking us for ways we help out when they come to visit from Arlington, Virginia.

Trish usually makes goofy faces when I point the lens her way.

I caught a very natural and nice look tonight.

I gave this a gentle coloring from the base black and white. Warmed it up just a tad.

Ninja Stealth Photo at Baltimore’s Airport.

I had a 3 hour wait for my flight to take off from BWI today after my work conference ended.

This guy was bored for sure.

He kept calling folks, and playing games on his laptop while waiting.

He sat in front of me on the plane, as fate would have it.

The game playing continued.

Me, I was taking photos, stealthily.

Oh, I was reading books on my phone, and checking and responding to work and personal emails as well.

Mostly just waiting, patiently.

Airports have a way of imposing long periods of personal time, that’s mine for the molding.

Airports are large spaces of artificial communities. Folks thrown together by chance and choice, just for slices of their lives. Transient cities.

I think this is my last airport trip for the year.

Not a bad thing at all. =)

Not room 217 or 237 as in the book and movie of “The Shining” authored by Stephen King and turned into a cinema marvel by Stanley Kubrick.

I immediately thought of the scene in the movie where young Danny, a 6 year old on a Big Wheel bike, turns the corner and confronts the ghosts of the Grady twin girls down a long hotel corridor.

Some movies are like that. They make such visual and emotional marks on my memory that other, similar places bring the scenes to instant recall.

A 2nd long day of tough meetings of many minds over complex issues.

I’m mentally exhausted.

I didn’t even bring my camera with me to dinner. Shocking as that seems.

This is the last photo I took last evening as I rounded the bend and saw the long corridor ahead of me.

Perfect for my photo of the day.

Good night!

I went out walking tonight with this photo in mind.

I can see this clock tower from my room windows, which are unacceptable to take any photos through.

The tower has four clock faces, only one of which appears to be working and keeping time.

The building is lit with mercury vapor lamps, which cast a bluish/purple cast, and is topped by an open space which is lit to an aqua color.

Contrast that with the surrounding sodium vapor lights which bathe the streets with a distinctive copper/orange color.

A local fellow made the comment to me when he saw me taking the tower’s photo, that it was rumored to be turned into condominiums. At first, my reaction was yuck. He mentioned that being in a space with the four clock faces as walls would be really neat, “Like in those tv shows.”

Maybe?

Looking around my hotel room (I’m on the road again in Baltimore, Maryland) I spied this interesting drapery arch.

Snap, bring into Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 (can they have a longer name?) and swizzle a bit.

Here you are.

The colors and the stripes, with the pleats below and the popcorn ceiling above just called to me.

“Take my picture Matt!”

So I did.

Just one of the songs with sights from today’s journey – down the inter-concourse tunnel at the Detroit Metro Airport. DTW

Enjoy. =)

We had a family gathering last night, to get with the Ford folks.

Tyler was going back to Mississippi after his Thanksgiving visit, and we had not had a chance to see him.

Good enough reason to gather family for feast and conversation.

I was brushing up on my high ISO technique and captured this portrait of my father-in-law Tom.

I like the reflection of Russ in the door. He’s looking in the same direction as Tom, even though he’s behind Tom.

We had a grand time together.