May, 2019
Lots of travel in May: Waco, Denton, Houston, San Diego (ok maybe Denton doesn’t count). TAPPS State Track, a certain graduation at UNT, TAPPS State Baseball, a short portrait session (but I wasn’t really feeling up to it at the time to be quite honest), a retirement party that turned into a job, and a long-awaited trip to California.
San Diego was a blast. Sophie got to see her uncle Chris and aunt Lan (she took her first real steps in their condo back in Dallas last year). Went to the beach a few times (and flew the drone) went to Chris’s office (and flew the drone), went to the San Diego Zoo, and saw the sea lions on the coast. We can’t thank Chris and Lan enough for the visit. We really needed it. (I kinda dumped it all down there, I didn’t curate it much but whatever this is a hidden page and if you don’t like it then I’ve got a poem for you...)
Also this month: got a piece accepted into a gallery show by the Texas Photographic Society. A weather service wants to use some of my lightning photos for promotional material. I feel like there is some other shit that I am too tired to remember. (Oh yeah the baseball game. I’m going to write about that later.)
California
Answers to some questions you might ask…
That odd body of water photographed from the plane on the way out is called the Salton Sea, and it’s a place Angela and I have always wanted to visit and was too far to visit on this trip but at least we got to see it from the air.
The weather is much nicer there than in Texas.
Sophie hates the beach and the water now for some reason.
People get too damn close to the sea lions but what are you gonna do?
That is a mansion and also an office.
They have a roof deck with a fireplace and it was wonderful.
The zoo did in fact have animals in it but I didn’t bring my telephoto and I probably wouldn’t have photographed them anyway.
That old building by the beach is the Hotel Del Coronado and I stayed there once with my family when I was young. It’s a wonderful old building but they charge too much for everything.
The dog is named Boz and he is super nice with Sophie (and everyone really, he is such a good boy).
I drank a lot of coffee and I will not apologize for it.
Cardboard straws do not suck and that’s the problem.
That orange dot on the ground is (I would be dollars to donuts) the massive flare outside of Midland that I have been trying to photograph for months.
We could see lightning in the clouds as we came in for a landing and I’m happy with those from a moving airplane.
