Writings & Photography of Derek Dysart, some dude you’ve never heard of.

Grilled tequila lime turkey breast for dinner tonight.

I tried to take shot shots of our fish (African cichlids), a recent addition to the house.  Easier said then down, out of 70 frames, this was the only one I liked, and even then there is a lot of noise in this due to it being ISO 1600.

I just realized I’m almost a full week behind on posting pictures to Project365.  They are all taken, just sitting on a CF card waiting to be processed. I guess I’ve got entirely way too much other stuff going on right now.  Hopefully I can carve some time out this evening and get through them. Otherwise, they’ll be up this weekend.

BTW - Welcome to all the new readers.  I saw a slight rise in hits after a link from Scott Kelby’s blog. You can subscribe to updates via the RSS feed which includes both my meandering posts and photos.

Weird. A whole bunch of stories on photographers getting harassed for taking pictures hit the blogs this week:

• Two FBI agents just showed up at my door… (I think I’m being investigated) [via Thomas Hawk]
• Almost Arrested for Taking Photos at Union Station
• Shooting with Permits (and hey…isn’t that Julia Roberts?) (no threat of arrest, but a good explanation on why you should secure permits)

A few weeks back there was a video on Flickr (quiet, all you haters) showing some UK blokes getting harassed by law enforcement.  I’ve fortunately never had a run in with the law yet.  I think all of these of these have decent endings that one can gleam advice from.  Namely, when confronted, be calm, if asked to leave, do so.

Probably also a good time to print out the Photographer’s Rights PDF and stuff it in the ol’ camera bag.

Tower of coffee mugs at work for a function tomorrow morning.  This is back lit with a Canon 580EXII set at 1/16 power (I think) to frame it a bit.  I did some post work on this to compensate for the crappy exposure and blown out ceiling lights.

Props to my co-worker for finding this and posting on her Flickr stream:

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My guess is the dude forgot to shut off the camera equipment while he was getting gas.

This tree smells as good as it looks.

Our pool is open, however the fine folks who opened it up removed a plug they shouldn’t have and no it won’t hold water.  they are coming back to fix it.

Waiting for our pizza.  Sort of a last minute shot when I realized I hadn’t taken any for the day.  This was the first time I knew I was going to do some post work, knowing I wanted to give this a cross processed treatment.  The cross process effect came from the technique Brian Auer outlines on Epic Edits (an is in his fine set of Photoshop actions.)

Soccer (Football outside of the US) as played by 5 & 6 year olds.  My wife refers to it as "bunch ball" - all the kids bunch around the ball and madly kick it.