Behold My Plumage

Photo Information

Taken:	16 July 2007 12:13 near Ponder, Texas
Camera:	Olympus C200Z
Exposure:	ISO 100
	5.6mm, 0 EV
	f5.6
	1/250

Backstory

I believe the peacock probably inspired the Beholder in the original Dungeons and Dragons role playing game a million years ago when I was young. I mean…look at all those eyes! For a nonviolent fowl, all those eyes make an intimidating display. And its cry! Just what I always imagined the Beholder would sound like as it called hordes of ravenous monsters to devour the party invading its dungeon.


Back in this reality, some of the tail feathers that graced the altar when Suna and I got married may have come from this very bird. Thanks, G.

–23 May 2012

Cannon Over Chattanooga

Photo Information

Taken:	4 July 2007 14:17 Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, TN
Camera:	Cannon C200Z
Exposure:	ISO 100
	5.6mm, 0 EV
	f5.6
	1/500

Backstory

I love this picture. Adding the sepia tone to the process really makes it seem as if you were at the Battle Above the Clouds—well if you ignore the freeway, business parks, speedboats, and other intrusions of modern Chattanooga. It’s painful to imagine this idyllic site playing host to war, but the cannon reminds us of that inescapable fact.

Since much of her family hails from Chattanooga, Suna has many photos of her growing up next to this cannon. A friend’s family once owned much of the land on which the Battle Above the Clouds took place. So the picture has many personal connections beyond the esthetic ones that also draw me to it.

–26 April 2012