Mark Sheely’s Photoblog

The doctor told me a couple of days ago that I can’t have any caffeine, chocolate, or spicy foods for the next month and a half. Since those are my three primary food groups, I’m pretty bummed. Chocolate is the big problem for me, because I love peanut butter cups. The four in the photo below were the last ones I’m going to get for a while.

At the same time this is going on, my workplace held a fundraiser for the March of Dimes. The general idea is that employees would donate money to the MOD by paying towards the opportunity to dunk a diaper filled with chocolate pudding on someone’s head.

I’ve been reading Joe McNally’s new book, The Hotshoe Diaries. I’ve been itching to try a few of the things I learned, but it has been raining more or less nonstop all weekend. I had a couple of minutes this morning to try out a shot with my wife, Pam:

My intent was to make it look like Pam had warm sunset-type light shining on her from the left. It does look that way on my camera’s LCD, and on my home computer monitor. On my computer monitor at work, it looks like she is half oompa-loompa. I guess the only way to make sure the color in my shots convey the right mood to everyone regardless of the monitor they use is to go 100% black and white, all the time.

This is an old photo I took of a chandelier in the lobby of a local Grand Rapids hotel:

I saw a couple of herons building a nest last Monday. The male was walking through the woods to find sticks. He would pick them up off the ground and then toss them in the air. If he liked them, he picked them up and flew them back to the female.

The male has his wings spread. The female is sitting on the nest just below him.