This post is being backdated a bit since I didn’t get around to it right away…

So the Longmont Art Walk was on Friday May 16th. My wife and I went and checked it out, and had a good time. Plenty of opportunities for good photos, but unfortunately for the first half of the walk I missed out on some great photos. This was because I am a firm believer in using the lowest ISO setting your camera will support – ISO64 in my case. Unfortunately this also means longer shutter speeds, which can ruin long-zoom shots as the sun is setting. I eventually boosted my ISO up to 400, and the rest of the evening was much better.

The person that caught most of my attention was this guy. I call him “Bronze Man.” This guy painted himself with a gold/bronze/copper color and then stood on the street perfectly still, like a statue. I’ve heard of people in Portland and the likes doing this, but never in Longmont. This was a pretty impressive sight. Him being still was also nice in that I could move around and take a bunch of pictures.

The one thing I didn’t like about him – the people that were passing by. Seriously. Every time I heard a comment like “Hey, I’ll give you 5 bucks to go kiss him,” or “dare you to kick him in the shin and run away,” or “Yeah he’s real, go ahead and poke him,” I just cringed. Why are people so rude?

I’ve just got to say one thing. Hey, Bronze Man, you rock. Hope you make it to the next Art-Walk

I don’t think I’ve seen someone make so many people smile in a long time. I could hear this guy from a mile away, and every time I heard him say Hi to someone, I just smiled and chuckled.

I do believe I promised a kitty. Well here she is. This is one of my cats, Keira. I was experimenting with using some off-camera light sources in various positions, and came up with this one. I’ve recently been reading Strobist and have been getting interested in using more off-camera lighting. I’m really yearning for some off-camera flash action, but my camera doesn’t have a hot-shoe or PC port. I’ve found some plans for a DIY slave flash trigger that I’m interested in putting together, and I have some cool designs in my head for how to make some cool gear for us hot-shoe challenged people. More on that later.

As always, there are more photos in the gallery. Currently the photos from the Art Walk are uploaded in the “misc” album, but I might move them around and rearrange the gallery eventually.

Until next time…