SOOC - Wedding Pictures

Finding unexpected events when they were not sought makes for nice subjects for this week's SOOC - Straight Out of the Camera. We arrived for the wedding of my niece Julie to the great Luis, and after we parked our vehicle, we saw a picture shoot in process of the couple, and captured same. A beautiful couple on a beautiful day at a lovely hotel venue having their pictures captured unknowns to the couple makes for a nice straight out of the camera memory...

Shadow Shot Sunday - Wedding

It has been a week since the wedding of the year (for an extended family that is), and the outdoor ceremony was of a perfect day for an outdoor wedding - with shadows too. 

Thus for Shadow Shot Sunday 2, I return to the exquisite Avon Old Farms Hotel. Our son came up from Brooklyn with his new suit (and being the great kid he is, he brought two new ties for the new suit and let his mom pick the tie :) and the always lovely Patti and our daughter with their new dresses. 

So while I looked for shadows, I found a few...what a great day, and congrats to the lovely newlyweds Julie and Luis!

Ruby Tuesday Too - Crayola Candle

For the fun meme Ruby Tuesday Too, a celebration of the hue red, I am offering a look at a unique item. This is a jar candle surrounded by a series of crayons, many of them in variations of ruby. This was created as a gift by our daughter, obtaining her Masters in Elementary Ed. As a student teacher/intern, she made the cute candle, she made this for her fourth-grade cooperating teacher at the school where she was assigned. This is thoughtful, creative and quite ruby...

Shadow Shot Sunday - Classic tarmac shadows

Last week I found an envelope of 8x10 photos in a file cabinet in the garage, and I think this might have been stored since 1997-1998 or so. There were a lot of pics therein from the 1940s on, and I found the second of a cool B&W photo which I am using for this week's Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

This is likely from March 1970, the person is my father returning from London, the place being the tarmac at JFK Airport in New York and the big subject in the background was the then brand new Boeing 747. On a sunny day in the Borough of Queens, the shadows are quite strong. The reason that he went down the steps that the 747 was so big that loading bridges to the plane were not yet installed at the Pan Am Worldport terminal.

On the back of the photo is a caption "Pan American World Airways, JFK Airport, New York" so this was when all was good...Pan Am passed away in 1991 and the Worldport terminal was razed in 2013. But four plus decades ago, the sun was bright and here is a picture of an optimistic future - I love the surprising discovery of these long-lost historical pics

Wordless Wednesday - Hand Cycle Kid

This device is a hand cranked bicycle for wheelchair users, and a cute guy who seems disinclined to try it out, too little to reach the pedals or who is almost ready to graduate to two wheels...see WW