For the Record

Photo Information

Taken:	5 September 2008 20:10
Camera:	Canon PowerShot A550
Exposure:	ISO 200
	5.8mm, 0 EV
	f/2.6
	1/60

Backstory

For the record, this is what you saw reflecting in Brass Sunset. Oh, and it proves football was played, if not paid attention to.

The picture is a little grainy, but not that bad for a point-and-shoot.

–15 October 2008

Brass Sunset

Photo Information

Taken:	5 September 2008 20:08
Camera:	Canon PowerShot A550
Exposure:	ISO 200
	5.8mm, 0 EV
	f/2.6
	1/60 with flash

Backstory

This is one of my favorite shots of the McNeil Band ever. I love the way the sky blackens out even though the sun had not set yet. Look at the contrast how the flash reflects in the slides versus how the sunset reflects in the bells, especially the pattern formed by the right-most three.

And the middle of a song is the only time you can photograph a group of teenagers this large and have all of them candid to the lens!

Suna and I always sat next to the trombones under the Friday night lights. Even in October, the game—for what it was worth—was well underway before sunset, but we were there for the band kids.

Something about sitting next to the low brass changes how you listen to marching band music. It never sounds right from any other position. But then I say the same about the bass line in rock music.

–14 October 2012

Dad at Sunset

Photo Information

Taken:	29 March 2008 19:56 near Yorktown, Texas
Camera:	Canon PowerShot A550
Exposure:	ISO 200
	5.8mm, 0 EV
	f/2.6
	1/60

Backstory

This is pretty much the same shot of Dad as the one of Suna posted earlier. But Dad’s face is less washed out in the flash.

Sunset and Suna

Photo Information

Taken:	29 March 2008 19:56 near Yorktown, Texas
Camera:	Canon PowerShot A550
Exposure:	ISO 200
	5.8mm, 0 EV
	f/2.6
	1/60 flash

Backstory

The flash kinda washes out the highlights of Suna’s face, giving the foreground an almost poster-ish quality. It also, flattens the background into almost a grayscale. I think the overall effect is really cool—especially since I got it with a point-and-shoot camera.

—10 August 2012

Demon’s Eyes and Oil

Photo Information

Taken:	29 March 2008 19:55 near Yorktown, Texas
Camera:	Canon PowerShot A550
Exposure:	ISO 250
	5.8mm, 0 EV
	f/2.6
	1/60

Backstory

Do you ever get the feeling someone or something is watching you?

I love the way the sunset through the clouds looks like eyes—maybe demon’s eyes, maybe a space alien’s.

The short white phallus in the middle is the first oil well drilled around the farm. We were all so excited, filled with anticipation about what it would mean for the Yorktown, for the farm, for us. That was back before we even knew what the Eagleford Shale was.

—9 August 2012