Sailboats and stuff

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to take a 3 hour tour of the Grosse Pointe shoreline. Fortunately, the 3 hour tour did not end on a desert island … hardy har. Anyway, the point of this tour was to celebrate a family member’s recently spoken nuptials and it just happened to be on a boat (pronounced yacht). While on this yacht, a sailboat race was concurrently being held off the G.P. shore.

I was able to snap this photo of my dad while we made our way through this ongoing sailboat race. I like the picture because it means many different things to me. Even though the sky is somewhat menacing, the smile on his face is one of reassurance. Throughout life, he has always been the one to assure my brothers and me that everything would be alright. When I look at this picture, I am instantly at peace with my surroundings.



 Looking forward : )

 

Prior to boarding the yacht, we sat in an area fairly close to the water and waited for the bride and groom to walk down the aisle and start the ceremony. I shot these mostly to capture the activity prior to the actual event.

I especially like the old-timey mic that was used. I believe it’s the Shure® deluxe ’55 vocal mic which aurally speaking, adds a bit of that old-timey warmth that correlates with the era in which it was introduced.

Other than the wedding, I’ve only had a handful of opportunities to take photos so I thought I’d share them and call them “stuff” in this post.

We had an extra fortune cookie from some Pei Wei one day a few weeks ago, so I thought I’d get creative and set up a shot. It was somewhat coincidental that the fortune on the inside related to the intent of the photo.

I was getting home from something I had going on one day during the week, and I immediately noticed that the moon was a great orangey/yellow color so I ran upstairs, grabbed my camera and tripod and rushed back down to snap some pictures. It took me a few tries to get the exposure and the focus right, but what I ultimately did to get a sharp focus and a good exposure was use the timer function on my Nikon D3100. Because my tripod is not the sturdiest, using the timer allowed me to limit the amount of movement the camera would experience. I think it turned out pretty good.