Picture Day!

So Brad and I went for a day of pictures, food, and driving.

The day started as days should – around 10. I picked Brad up in his Freemont-ish area house, and drove back to West Seattle for breakfast at Avalon. Breakfast was, as it always is there, awesome. After breakfast, Brad and I headed to West Seattle’s Hamilton View Point park. Many pictures were taken, there was a lot of Blue in those photos, and it was time for us to try to head to Federal Way to get Kasey Keller to sign something.

Kasey had a bulldog who told us the line ride was full, and to piss off. I hope Kasey finds out how many children that guy turned away and beats the man over the head with a stick.

Back to West Seattle we drove, stopping for a couple hours in Jack Block park, to take a ton more pictures.

All in all, it was quite a nice picture day, and once again I got the patent-worthy Brad Walkthrough of Cameras.

Notes from the day:
Aperture controls how much light is getting in (together with Shutter speed), which in turn defines the focal plane.

If your shutter is slow, you gather more light. If your aperture is wide, you also gather more light – within allowance of the shutter speed.

And that annoying F number is your aperture, and the bigger it is, the narrower the aperture. Narrow aperture = less light.

It’s all very complex, but it helped me open up the camera to take some nice shots, and the day was, all in all, a success.

The initial pictures, sans any clean-up, are here: Flickr

Enjoy!