Pixel Darkroom Photography

This is Piano Time Before Bedtime. It doesn’t happen very often although it should. One of my fondest memories of my childhood was when my Dad would play piano for us. We played so much one time, that he forgot entirely that he put water on the stove to boil and make tee. He put the leaves in the boiling water and left them there until we realized later that we had completely forgot about his tee. Once the funny smell came from the kitchen, from his tee, we all ran into the kitchen to find the kettle all dried up with flickering ashes inside. We remember to this day that Dad made “tee with sparks”.

When he played piano for us he would improvise most of the time, and I could not understand for the life of me how he did it. He would just say, “just put your hand on the piano and let it walk, then adjust the left hand to fit with the right hand”. Now I’m doing it for my kids, except for the tee sparks. It’s amazing to see life from two perspectives. It happens to me so often that I see life from my perspective as a kid, through memories, and my perspective as an adult through my ongoing experience as a father. I can only hope and believe this happens to most people. I pray not to make the same mistakes my parents made, and in the same time I pray and hope that my children will not make the same mistakes that I make with them. When I think of life like this, I only realize more and more that humans fall short and fail many times and it is only God’s grace that helps us get up from our misery and from the consequences of our mistakes and try to keep walking.

We are playing soccer more and more. I love it that there are so many places where, with two pairs of shoes as posts, we already have a field and the game is on. We have a few friends that are spontaneous enough that with a couple of phone calls or e-mails we can get out in the evening and play some soccer. For this particular image I believe the kids did not even have posts, it was mostly running with the ball. The game happened later until it got so dark we could hardly see the ball. Day 273.

We have discovered here that the closer the mirrors are, the more people you see in the mirrors. We have also discovered that if you tell your subject to look at the camera, he’s not going to know at which camera to look. Fun.
Strobist info: on camera 580 EX (II?) bounced into ceiling.