Geocaching

Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Personal, Funny, Internet, Rochester NY, Family, Games.


The kids and I are goofing off doing some Geocaching and above we’re indicating our 2nd find.

You use a GPS to get in the ballpark area of treasure that other Geocachers hide, then search around and maybe work out clues… we’re having a blast.
The find above was in Ontario NY in Casey Park… it was ‘Yellowjacket’ themed and the swag Colin got from it was a 1943 steel penny. Then you leave something for the next finder, which Colin left one of his special $1 bill rings.

Believe it or not, I missed seeing this and was right under it looking on the ground and Colin said ‘Dad, whaaaat’s that??!” and, of course it was the cache in a cool Yellowjacket container.

Check out our first cache find HERE and more in general from Geocaching.com.

And part of the fun is that you don’t want anyone else to know what you are up to, so there’s lots of sneaking around (and buying french fries to look nonchalant at the McDonalds cache.. .(which we still haven’t found!)

Go to the site and put in your zip code…it’s amazing how many caches are probably within 10 miles of your house…it’s a world going on around you that you never knew. How cool is that!

10 bonus points for anyone who can tell what our handle is from: Spiderweb4-2

See you out on a hunt someday!

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Currently Reading

Posted on September 14th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Personal, Blogroll, Funny, Family, Currently Reading.


Keep an eye on the ‘Blogroll’ to the right where I post my current books (if you are interested in that sort of stuff). It’s usually a pretty fun, eclectic collection!
I’m reading the book above with Colin. It’s full of short, odd, stories from history (like about the first subway in NYC being a hidden pneumatic tube… or ‘Mike the Headless Chicken’)


Lisa and I read Cold Comfort Farm when we are making cinnamon rolls on Friday eves… hey, and that’s tonight! We saw the movie first and loved it. I always describe it as Monty Python dropped into the middle of Wuthering Heights… you aren’t sure at first how to take the dry humor and then it just sweeps you away.


Lydia and I continue in the prequils to the Little House books…. This is about LE Wilder’s Grandmother growing up in Boston. We’ve been working our way back, so it’s fun to see one girl’s life with her adult Mom, then go back a generation and see when Mom was a little girl. They do a nice job weaving it all together. We are reading ‘On Tide Mill Lane‘ now.

So if you are looking for something fun to read, or just want to topic of conversation the next time you see us… check out the Blogroll for what we’re reading!

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Urinetown (the musical) @ Geva is Awesome!

Posted on May 15th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Theatre, Funny, Photo, Rochester NY, Famous People.


What a riot of a show. This will be a huge hit for Geva. Don’t let the name put you off… I mean, what was ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ anyway?! It’s just a goofy musical, dark comedy, set in a rough future with a water problem… which makes it a ‘Priviledge to Pee’. Once you get past the title, and general idea, there’s very little to object to in the show… we’re taking the kids.
If you want an idea of what Urintown (not the place of course, the musical) is like, check out their Tony Award performance video HERE. 

See a cool Flash Gallery of my photos from the show HERE in my ‘Secret Hideout’.

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Photographing ASL Speakers

Posted on May 10th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Skills, Funny, Photo, Teaching, Rochester NY, Colleges, Events.


It can very tricky to photography a person speaking in American Sign Language. I get lots of practice with my RIT, NTID, Rochester School for the Deaf Shoots and thought I’d mention a few things that might help someone.

Honestly, part of it is shooting lots of frames. ASL is a fast moving, arm-waving experience, so it’s easy to get blurred shots. One of the toughest things is that the language is so expressive (due to how much meaning is conveyed by expression since there is little voicing), and you can get some really awful expressions as well. Sort of like when someone is really into singing or dancing and their face makes sense if you are their live, but as a frozen frame… it can be nasty.

Here’s a series I shot at the RIT Celebration of Scholarship. This student is (I believe) the incoming student government president, and really lively & terrific.

And this is just a few of the frames… with the worst ones cut.

How’d I do… well, I know I got one or two OK shots, and I wouldn’t use this one…

as the sign (and expression) is too close to ‘Where’s the toilette’… although she’s obviously not saying that! But it does bring up the issue that know some sign is not only useful in life, but helps in editing. And when you are shooting, you can catch some positive signs that photograph well like ‘Thank You’ ‘I’ ‘Congratulations’, ‘Love’… that kinda stuff.

This one is just plain bad:

So learn some sign, shots lots of frames and try to get in synch with your speaker and her expressions. The best news is that it does lead to great expressive images with lots of gesturing, which we shooters all love.

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The Monkey and Me

Posted on April 24th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Theatre, Funny, Photo, Rochester NY, Colleges.


I’ll just let these fine, artistic images speak for themselves. This is from a shoot for Nazareth College Theatre and I must say it was surreal to have a monkey sitting in the audience and stromping around to his marks. These aren’t show photos, just goofing around between scenes.


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I’m to blame for the weather

Posted on April 16th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Funny.

Sorry, I scheduled to have my winter tires rotated off of the PT Cruiser today and I know that jinxed the whole eastern seaboard.

You have my sincerest apologies. I’ll never be that optimistic in tire swapping again.

Ken

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