As we were riding, we came upon Brian Masters (the guy on the left), a friend of Miah & Bruce's family. Bruce sat down, picked up Brian's other guitar, and they started jamming together. It was really cool.
Here's one example of when my slow shutter speed is maybe an okay thing. The flash fired, catching the foreground stuff, and the slow shutter speed allowed the background stuff above the light to look fuzzier. I like this one.
A couple other fountain shots:
Big Pimpin, spendin cheese...
This was a great band that was playing, sort of reminded me of Cusco. Very Aztec/Inca/Maya/Montezuma sounding.
This dude was riding his motorcycle with his dog. Pretty cool.
Tonight there is a full lunar eclipse, relatively early in the evening. Totality will last about 53 minutes, during which time the moon will turn a deep brick red. Should be amazing. However, we have predictions for rain and other such weather involving clouds. On the off chance that the clouds clear, I will be at Miah's with my camera and my 80mm-210mm telephoto zoom lens with the 2x converter, effectively giving me a 160-420 telephoto lens. Of course my lenses will all be useless if Miah can acquire a t-ring for me, allowing me to attach my camera to a telescope. He works at the Science Education Center whose primary source of revenue (aside from amateur rocketry parts) is telescopes and accessories, so I think the odds of him coming up with that part are pretty good. We'll see if the clouds cooperate. If they don't, it's alright, because this year is a very rare year - we actually have two full lunar eclipses within this calendar year. The other one's in November.
I have bacon and eggs and potatoes and biscuits with sausage gravy and fruit with whipped cream and you don't.
