The tree

So... I have several pictures of this tree. It is conveniently located for taking pictures to test aperture settings and shutter speeds... this happened to be the nicest of them... and I felt like making another post. So here it is- the tree.

12th Night

So... on the 4th, 5th and 6th, the Southern Maine Association of Shakespearean Homeschoolers (a.k.a. SMASH) put on 12th Night, and for the first time since I can remember... I wasn't in the play as an actor. I got to do the lights, in a sense... it came to pass that I ended up as lighting assistant, because I wasn't able to make the dress rehearsal, and the other guy who was doing the lights managed to make all the performances on time!

In the spare time that resulted, I took pictures of the first night... did something the second night (I don't remember what- probably just read off the changes to Nick... the other guy...) and the third night, I filmed the production. (Next time around, I'm going to get a better recording... I don't know how, but I will. Even if I'm acting.) I missed a few lines because of operator error (i.e. the camera wanted to make me wait, and didn't get done before the scene change was done...) Anyhow, I shall see what I can do with the video, and perhaps post a few sections of it. (We had an excellent fool.)

So, a few of the pictures:


The "madly used" Malvolio... in a minute of deep contemplation.


Fabian... every mischief-making villain needs a good mustache, eh?


Sebastian- the hero with the mustache... (I think I have a better one that I will replace it with.)


Maria- this girl was amazing... excellent first time acting!


Maria again... I do believe this was her explaining how alike her writing was to Olivia's.


Malvolio takes on Sir Toby Belch's late night revelry.


I still have another roll of shots, and a few that might look a lot better in Black and White... I'll try and put them up later...

I have a camera, and (I think) I know how to use it!

That would kinda describe it... my dad is letting me use his Pentax Spotmatic IIa, which is a rather cool (if old) SLR camera, and I recently got a roll developed... it didn't come out quite as I hoped (the film I found was probably long past its expiration date... and frozen), but the pictures it didn't ruin come out with an interesting texture to them... like so:
My dog, Duchess...