Succulents
Category: photography
Fathers Day
Bellana got me plants for the cellar for Fathers Day. As always I feel like a fraud on Fathers Day, but I also feel appreciated and loved and it’s wonderful.
Later tonight we are going to dinner with my Father. If anyone deserves a happy Fathers Day today it’s him.
Wishing a happy Fathers Day to all of the fathers out there. Have a wonderful day, all of you.
Spontaneous
My plan to do some vocal recording in the car in the morning just spontaneously combusted.
Why?
Jen and Bellana went out to run an errand and left me at home alone. So… I tracked the vocals on the only two songs that were ready to go. Now I don’t have to do it tomorrow.
Unless I write more lyrics tonight, I guess.
10 June Songs
Yesterday’s music output was decent. I put guitars on two songs in the morning. Later I wrote lyrics for two songs and mixed another song. Before bed I started a new song idea and that makes 10 for the month of June. I’m not saying I will finish my album in a month goal for June, but it’s a whole lot easier to reach it when you actually have the correct number of songs in progress. Now, having said that, I had 10 songs in progress in May as well and I didn’t finish any of them so… yeah.
The guitar playing streak is up to 11 days. I think today might be the last day though. I think I want to do car vocals tomorrow instead. We’ll see. I also might want to start the couch to 5k stuff tomorrow. I am still undecided. Again, we’ll see. I did spend about 20 minutes playing today though. I put rhythm guitars on the new song idea from last night. That means all 10 June songs have rhythm guitars now. Good stuff!
Errand
I had to run out for an errand this morning and I had a camera with me because… you know… it’s me. Two pics from the front yard.
I Lost
The piece in the center was mine but the other one won the game. That was my wife’s. She’s a genius.
Restaurant
Out to dinner at a restaurant as if the pandemic never happened and stuff.
10 Days, Babie!
10 days in a row. I have played my guitar on 10 consecutive days. Glorious!
Now one of these days I am going to have to shift the musical focus from guitar to vocals-in-the-car and that will likely kill the streak, but for now? TEN DAYS.
Are you sick of the daily guitar pictures yet? I am not. It’s making my photo-a-day-challenge really super easy.
I had another pic of the cute little Vox Nutube amp as well but it was a little on the blurry side and I deleted it.
I currently have nine songs that are ready for lyrics and melody. I should really get cracking on that, right?
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Long Exposure Test
I don’t know why I thought my neutral density filter didn’t fit on the Z 40mm f2 lens I bought for my Z5. I knew it was the right size, but for some reason I thought the threads were backwards or something. I actually tried using it today and much to my glee it fits perfectly. What was I thinking?
Anyway, I popped it into shutter priority mode and set the speed to 30 seconds and took my first mirrorless long exposure.
Now if we can just find a weekend day that isn’t cloudy and rainy, I’ll be able to take some long exposures at the ocean. Someday. Hopefully.
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