365 Project - Week 9

365 Project - Week 8

Why is this so late? Well, to start out with, we had almost 2 feet of snow here...and then I had a major iPhoto crash which did not destroy my photographs but did erase all of the editing, cropping, and sorting I had done since, oh, 2004. But the original photographs are intact. I should be getting Lightroom soon and I'm planning to go through everything pretty ruthlessly and only keep the really good ones, and then run them through Lightroom. Kind of like what a professional would do, right?

Sean-Nós Northwest 2011

This is from the after-party at the Sean-Nos Northwest festival last weekend in Olympia, WA. William and I are on the left-hand side of the video, behind the guitar player. Unfortunately we couldn't get a video from our point of view, which was almost exactly level with the dancers' feet...

Dancers: Alicia Guinn, Emma O'Sullivan, and Melia Tichenor

Musicians: Mikey Beglan, Nancy Conescu, Greg Hill and Deb Collins, and us.

Recent musical appearances

(Photo by Jodie Buller)

On January 8th we dressed up like Irish musicians (basically, what we look like all the time) and performed at our favorite grocery store ever, the Skagit Valley Food Co-op, on top of their freezer case which we get to by climbing a ladder. It's totally worth the process of getting up there when we see people pointing to us and wondering if we jumped over from the balcony section of the cafe, or maybe swung in on a rope. We always have fun playing there: it's a relaxed atmosphere and people really appreciate the music.

And, on February 12th, we dressed up like classical musicians and performed at the Anacortes' Library Love At The Library fundraiser; we traded off playing solo guitar and piano and played two pieces together. Originally we thought that this would be a background music gig, but a fair number of people actually sat and listened to us and said complimentary things when we were done. Great chocolate and wine, too!!

365 Project - Week 7

365 Project - Week 6

365 Project - Week 5

I have to say that I'm really enjoying this project. Technically, I'm not taking one photo each day, but there is one photo PER day and just that is enough to make me take my camera with me more often. I am required to look at my surroundings more closely, and I sometimes feel like I'm being very stealthy and getting away with something exciting. I also feel that there's SO MUCH all around us; not that a camera is required to appreciate that but it's great to suddenly see something out of the corner of my eye and decide to save it, and share it.