Blast from the past

I got a call from a minister who works with military veterans and their families about getting a print of this picture for a fund raising auction. She offered to buy a copy, but of course I gladly donated a print. I'm happy to offer my support for our military veterans. I feel very fortunate that I didn't have to serve in the military or an armed conflict, and I am grateful for the service of others who have.

One of the interesting things about this picture now is, how they found it and me: It's been several, several years since I've had this picture out in public with my name attached to it, but somehow it got cataloged with google images. While it's fortunate in this case, it's kind of creepy too that the google database works as well as it does - in that I/we don't have control over our work, or what's associated with us. Not sure how I really feel about it.... other than being temporarily pleased to be able to lend a tiny bit of support to a good cause.

There's an app for that

I recently shot this for an editorial assignment.  The photography is pretty straight forward, this one isn't about that. It's more that I suddenly realized how much our phones are doing and will be doing. 

I'm typically an early adopter of Apple hardware: first mac was Powerbook 160, (that was System 6) had one of the first iPods, iPads and iPhones, but I pretty much use my phone to call people, play music and find places for the first time while driving, along with a few games for my son. I'm not a big App guy. But I thought this was pretty cool, it's a serious tool. You can now use your phone to take your blood pressure. The phone actually powers the device and if you need to keep track of your blood pressure it has a database of your history. I, thankfully, have normal blood pressure and pulse, so for me it's just another App I played with once. But seeing this brought it home to me that our phones really are turing into those tri-corders they had on Star Trek. I'm looking forward to Tea. Early Gray. Hot.