Time to Say Something

Photo of the Day

This is a photo that I took in Columbus last summer. For some reason I really liked how the sign was just big and bold and in the middle of a beautiful bridge. I thought that it made for the perfect piece of foreground interest for my photo. Sometimes while trying to take all traces of modern life out of the photo you decide to leave a little in. Here I thought that it was a photo that asked a couple of questions.

Technical Data

This shot really had a large range of light in it. To expose everything in the foreground correctly I lost the sky. That is not a huge deal, but a beautiful sky like that should not be lost. I decided to make the image black and white to even everything out. I really upped the clarity and contrast to add some punchiness to the photo. I also cranked up the blacks to add even more. I thought that this looked good a little crunchy.

One Year Ago Today

One year ago today a man that I never had met before came to my house and fractured my skull. The day started off great as we went to the doctor to see the ultrasound pictures of my first kid. It was there that we learned that we were having a baby girl. It was a great day, and the proud papa was in the middle of placing the photos into Dropbox to share with the rest of the family. It was then that the man came to the door under a false pretense. I knew who he was, but I had not met him before. Before he left I had a fractured eye socket, and the knowledge that literally anything can happen at anytime. The past year has been very interesting as the man really has not left me alone. In fact for a time he became one of the most frequent visitors to this little blog. The web hits were nice, but the knowledge that he was stalking me was very creepy. This site used to be a much more personal look at my life, but when you have a stalker reading every word it really changes how you write. The thing that you find out in a situation like this is how slow the justice system really works. One year later, and an arrest has still not been made.

The only good thing to come out of this is the current videos on this site. I had to buy the GoPro to film everyday events that he would appear in. If you have access to my private YouTube account you can see those videos to understand just how crazy this person is. I decided that I had to use the GoPro for something good as well so I started making some content for the blog. Hopefully by the two year anniversary of this incident I will have a better outcome to talk about. For now I just have to rely on the system to do what it is there for.