This morning, I took him into the barbershop to get his crazy hair back to a more manageable length. Today’s 365 is a last look at Nate before he gets clippers taken to it.
Nate Before the Big Haircut
I had a blast with this evening’s 365. I was going through some of the stuff that Nate and I had picked up recently during one of our beach trips and I found these 4 little rocks. The biggest rock was just a bit longer than a quarter as you can see in one of the images below.
Anyway, I started off by stacking the rocks on top of one another and then tried to stack them in different configurations. The last couple were quite challenging especially given how small these rocks were. I could have made it a whole lot easier by using some wax or something to hold them together, but that would have spoiled all the fun. I think I might try doing this again with a different set of rocks some other evening.
The cast and crew photo
Easy Peasy
The Alternator
Cantilever
Wobbly Legs
Finally, I felt good enough to get out of the house today! With Nate in tow, I drove up the coast to check out the place where I caught my first really memorable wave. I was riding a borrowed 1970′s 8’6″ Skip Frye with a crazy vee bottom. I remember making a bottom turn and feeling the sensation of being on what felt like an endless wave. It’s a perfect little wave too.
Today, there wasn’t much size to it, but there was nobody on it. I mean nobody. I’ve seen it plenty of days this size with a dozen people paddling around each other to get one of these tasty little morsels.
Of course, I was watching Nate so I didn’t even have my board with me so I just tried not to look at all the little waves go unridden. Instead, we tried to find some cool shells and picked up some trash here and there until it was time to head off the the park as I had promised.
Empty Waves
Nate showing off his balance
A crazy neon green anemone (no Photoshop, I promise)
Ready to head to our next destination
Slept horribly last night. Felt crummy all day. Spent the entire day at home. Highlight was getting the kid to eat a good dinner including some collard greens sauteed with olive oil and garlic. (He loved them! Yay, me!) Nate didn’t take a nap so he went down pretty easily. Since the wife is still in Vegas, I can’t go surfing tomorrow morning. The good news is that I will be sleeping in for as long as Nate will let me.
Okay, I know that everything I just wrote has nothing to do with the photo below, but it might explain why I’m resorting to my second night in a row of shooting some on my kitchen counter.
Cerith Shell
Today really tested my resolve to not break the chain. I woke up with a fever and body aches so I hardly got out of bed until I needed to pick up my son from school. My wife left for a photography convention in Las Vegas so I’m flying solo until Tuesday night. I really picked a crummy time to come down with something.
After putting him down for the night, the last thing I wanted to do was take a photograph for my 365, but today would be my 50th day since I started so I couldn’t not shoot something. So I looked through Nate’s toy bins, I saw Superman. I figured a classic super hero deserved a classic lighting pattern for his portrait so I went with a loop light.
I’ll be channeling my inner Superman this weekend as I try to keep Nate entertained while trying to kick whatever bug I’ve got.
Superman
This morning, I was back at Dockweiler for some more shots of the big cement jetty north of Imperial. There was a lot of wind blowing straight onshore so the surf wasn’t much to speak of. So no paddle out which is fine because it gave me enough time to get my 365 post up for the day.
Cement Jetty, Perspective 1
Cement Jetty, Perspective 2
Cement Jetty, Perspective 3
(The little bright spot in the lower left part of the puddle is actually a reflection of the moon.)