Random #30

(Snapped on 12/05/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

Reunited

(Snapped on 9/11/12 - using a Minolta XG-1)

The first time I photographed this bitchin', old Chevy - it was cantilevered out over the Opequon Creek, clinging to the bank as it had done for several decades...

(All remaining pics. snapped on 12/05/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

But when Hurricane Sandy rolled through this area on October 29th - she freed the old wreck from its precarious perch, turning it completely around so that it faced the opposite direction, and sat upright down in the creek. 

Knowing how much I'd enjoyed taking pics. of the old car the first time he so graciously allowed me to do so - my friend who owns the land on which the car still partially rests, invited me to come back to take more...

The weather was uncannily warm that early December day (70 degrees) which (not surprisingly) made being reunited once again with the beautiful disaster, that much sweeter...

Thank You so much for your generosity, S.!

Random #29

(Snapped on 12/01/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

The eensy weensy spider went up (next to) the waterspout...

Follow-Up

(All pics. snapped on 12/01/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

Just a few more of the pics. that I took while on one of my many quick, little visits to Winchester, Va.'s John Handley High School, over the weekend...

Postcards From the Here and Now

(Snapped on 12/01/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

My youngest daughter danced in four separate performances of The Nutcracker, this weekend - and for the first time in many, many years - the annual production took place on the stage at John Handley High School in Winchester, Va. 

After I dropped her off for the first performance, I walked around the campus snapping pictures with my phone. I couldn't believe that I had the whole place to myself for as long as I did - you may notice that there's not a living soul to be seen anywhere in this wide, sweeping shot.

Later on in the evening, while messing with the day's pics. on Instagram - I layered a few different filters onto the photo above, and thought that it resembled an old postcard from the '60's or '70's. Next I cropped it from the classic Instagram square - to a rectangle, and there ya' have it! A vintage-looking postcard from the present!

Random #28

(Snapped on 12/01/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

Killing Time

(All pics. snapped on 12/26/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

I arrived at my friend's family's farm for a self-portraiture shoot the other day, a few minutes earlier than we'd planned to meet up...

...and so to kill time until my friend showed up - I took pics. of and around a pretty, little, red woodshed that stood there alone in a field...