I heard this quote last night and it kind of stuck with me, so I wanted to share it.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up and knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up and knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you better start running.

Best I can tell, it was first quoted by Herb Caen, but I could be wrong.  If you know different, please share.

Mune hit me up this morning to meet for breakfast slash lunch and we originally intended on going for sushi, but being Sunday every place was closed at noonish when we went.  I grabbed my camera for the outing, having just bought a new 5d, I wanted to start shooting more and figured this would be a great way to do some street photography, something I rarely do anymore.  While waiting for Mune to finish getting ready, I snapped their neighbors front porch slash office setup.

We had heard that there was a Belgian waffle place not far from where we were so we hit that up.  I’m always a bit leery of ordering espresso at new places, but seeing a pair of quality grinders and a for serious espresso machine, I figured it couldn’t be that bad.  I was wrong.  I ordered a double espresso, I didn’t see the chick behind the counter dose from the grinders, so I’m thinking it was pre-ground, but who does that?  I also saw her grab a latte cup, not an espresso cup, even though there were two dozen of them on top of the machine.  Who pulls a double espresso into a latte cup?  It was slightly bitter and the cup wasn’t pre-warmed, so the espresso turned cold about twice as fast as it should have.  This is how it was served to me.

Mune ordered a regular coffee and I also got an Orange Pellegrino, something I usually wouldn’t get but was somehow in the mood. At least Mune seemed to enjoy her drink.

I ordered an egg, cheese and bacon panini sandwich which came on a waffle, I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was, never having a sandwich on a waffle before.

Mune forced me to share waffles and ice cream with her.  Something about it being a sin to be in a waffle place and not order it.  We got butterscotch ice cream with a dark chocolate sauce over a pecan waffle.

Look how happy she is!

YUM!

We decided to do a short lap around the downtown Bethlehem area, feeling guilty about what we just ate.  This gave me a chance to do some street photography and shoot some stock stuff as well.

While walking around we saw a new second hand shop.  Oddly enough, their window display showcases a t-shirt from a South Side Bethlehem skateshop owned by our friend Andy, Homebase.  After all, Homebase is where the heart is!

The following shots of the peeling brick wall I had spotted a few days earlier but did not have my camera with me.  The texture really drew me in and I wanted to show the punch colors off in post processing.  I’ve also started to really appreciate a good vignette on a photo, so added a thick one in around the shots.

It felt good to walk around and just take photos, even if it was a bit muggy outside.  Hopefully I can continue to do this on a more regular basis.  Thanks to Mune for spending the afternoon with me, great company and even better model!

Borrowed a camera for the weekend that shoots 9 frames per second along with a super wide angle lens.  The result is Kyle doing a blunt slide on a picinic table below.  This animated file is made up of 16 individual shots and then laced together with a 0 second delay between them.  Props to Homebase for putting on the skate jam.

Here are a few of the 16 shots that make up this series,

Tuesday night Christy met up with me for some shooting after work.  We had intended to shoot along a river but due to the thick wooding, couldn’t get to the spot we wanted and quickly headed towards the back-up location.  Upon arriving we new that it would only be a short time before we got wet from the storm that was rolling in, but it did give us some great cloud cover.  To add to the madness, part of my gear broke as I was setting up remote flashes and I didn’t have a spare with me.  Lesson learned.  I’m still very happy with the photos though.

From a series I did earlier this year with Jean.

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Met up with Christy today to do some shooting, first at the covered bridge in Orefield and then at the Whitehall Parkway that I scouted out last month.  Overall things went pretty smoothly, hopefully we can work together again soon.

Right at the start of the shoot Christy found a caterpillar that she had to play with, don’t think she saw it long enough to give it a name though.

From 2005, Jamie in the field.

Another from the 2007 workshop, this time with Nori.  Shot on a Lensbaby to give the still image a bit more motion.

In the summer of 2007 I took a fine art workshop, this shot of Christy was done at that workshop.  Originally shot on a medium format camera, this file has been cropped down from the square format to the more typical rectangle format.

From a shoot last summer, I’ve always had a fascination with clavicle bones and mandibles.