Meet my baby

"The Greeting Song"

This won't mean much to you. But, book "set list". I wrote it out, typed it and then will write it out again. But, for now you have the blog version of it. Three draft ideas, for today...and counting. I think I've had 5 or 6 "set lists" in the past year. You can backtrack and look up the photo in the Art section and find it by the date posted.

Draft I
Cover: Kanakolukūmālima, Palm With Finger (Square)
Blank Front Cover Back Page

Thank You

Ulu (Square) 11/18/14
Ulu (Portrait) 9/12/14

Aloha Sign In Grass (Portrait) 5/26/15
Diamond Head Mosaic (Portrait) 6/7/14

Sober Roses (Portrait) 4/5/15
c - Pink Nightblooming Flower (Portrait) 7/5/14

Kanakolukūmālima, Palm With Finger (Square)
HIsam Fountain (Square) 11/25/14

Ko'olina (Landscape) 8/3/14
Uchida Family Fishpond (Landscape) 10/7/14

Uchida Cascading Plant (Portrait) 10/7/14
c - Diamond Head, portrait 6/27/15

Pikake, black background (Portrait) 5/7/15
Starlight Vine (Portrait) 5/6/15

c - CM Flowers - Purple (Portrait)
c - CM Flowers - Yellow (Portrait)

Page - CM
Back Cover Page

     17 total photos
     21 total pages
     c - color photos (4)

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Draft II
Cover: Kanakolukūmālima, Palm With Finger (Square)
Blank cover back page

Thank you

Ulu (Square) 11/18/14
Ulu (Portrait) 9/12/14

Nightblooming Flower, black and white (Portrait) 11/18/14
Diamond Head Mosaic (Portrait) 6/7/14

Cassette Tape (Landscape) 6/11/15
Ko'olina (Landscape) 8/3/14

Uchida Fish (Landscape) 10/7/14
HIsam Fountain (Square) 11/25/14

Kalo (Square) 11/18/14
Kanakolukūmālima (Square)

Aloha Sign in Grass (Portrait) 5/26/15
Mountain Apple (Portrait) 5/26/15

Starlight Vine (Portrait) 5/16/15
Pikake, Black (Portrait) 5/7/15

Cascading Flowers (Portrait) 10/7/14
c - St. Philomena Rose (Portrait) 7/13/14

c - CM Flowers - Purple (Portrait)
c - CM Flowers - Yellow (Portrait)

     19 total photos
     21 total pages
     c - color photos (3)

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Draft III

Cover: Kanakolukūmālima, Palm With Finger (Square)
Blank Front Cover Back Page

Ulu (Square) 11/18/14

Ulu (Portrait) 9/12/14
Thank you.

Cassette Tape (Landscape) 6/11/15
Diamond Head Mosaic (Portrait) 6/7/14

Sober Roses (Portrait) 4/5/15
Uchida Cascading Plant (Portrait) 10/7/14

Aloha Sign In Grass (Portrait) 5/26/15
c - Diamond Head, (Portrait) 6/27/15

HIsam Fountain (Square) 11/25/14
Pikake, black background (Portrait) 5/7/15

Uchida Family Fishpond (Landscape) 10/7/14
Starlight Vine (Portrait) 5/6/15

c - CM Flowers - Purple (Portrait)
c - CM Flowers - Yellow (Portrait)

     15 total photos
     17 total pages
     c - Color Photos (3)
     Note: No cover photo.


Misc -
Kalo (Square) 11/18/14

Nightblooming Flower, black and white (Portrait) 11/18/14

c - St. Philomena Rose (Portrait) 7/13/14

(Blanking) my art in a Denny's Restroom

Look it up. It is part of a Kevin Smith quote. This is the cover of the book.  I love it.  If I could attribute my favorite Jeremy Clarkson quote, "Power!"

I am having a righteous day, spilling coffee everywhere. Being "Smart and Good".

Then there is this. That's right, Ghost Pepper. My first experience with g.p.. It was brilliant. I'll dance with you again, Sir. 

Fallen in love with a Ginger.

My B.R. Series

I remember calling your whole name out, along a busy sidewalk, and you not looking back.
I caught up to you.
We laughed because no one calls you by your whole name.  
Though I love your name.
My favorite Bennett sister. Though the selection is limited.
You brought me inspiration today and I thank you.

"Our love is rock steady

Rock steady, rock steady, rock steady
Our love is rock steady, rock steady." - No Doubt

I may stink at Fantasy Football, but I can take some purty pictures.

"In high seas or in low seas,

I'm gonna be your friend, 
He said, I'm gonna be your friend. 
And, baby, in high tide or low tide, 
I'll be by your side, 
I'll be by your side." - Bob Marley

"I'm like the ringleader, I call the shots...

(call the shots) 
I'm like a firecracker 
I make it hot (make it hot) 
When I put on a show." - Britney Spears

"And when you scan the radio,

I hope this song will guide you home" - The Postal Service.

"Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone"

Do I really have to explain where this is from?:

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, 

Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, 

Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, 

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne 

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. 

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, 

One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them 

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. 

I think it would be funny if I added the Ōhiʻa Lehua photo to the Black and White book. I think I will. I wish the flowers were centered in the matrix. I've looked at all the shots I took that day and I have no idea why that did not happen. I do like that your eye is being led in an abundant of directions.

I love the cylindrical quality of the palm, one photo up. Which reminds me of this quote: "I think the internet is on it's way out.... It's 'cycular'" - Walt F. TESD #177.  

This is my Fall holiday photo. 

B.O.P.

Is it Superman II when Clark gives Lois a Bird of Paradise flower? I think about that whenever I see this flower.

4ward

Forward
This book is about beauty in monochrome.
Thank you Theodore Taptiklis, Keanu Reeves and James Franco.
Comic Books.
Gravity.
Obi Wan Kenobi.
Thank you Kevin Smith.
Angel wings, Apparitions and Anomalies.
35 years that were, that wore and of woe.
35 years of dancing, surfing and hope.
I will eat your heart out, Nadia Oribio

To the love of my life, The Boston Red Sox

Alive concepts

Roots

B and W Book

I'm working on a book of B&W photos. I repeated the magnolia flower and the palm from previous posts.  I like the first one, with the palm, as the cover.

The flower that wasn't there.

A return to haunt

The only photo I have is this one and it includes a watermark.
Oh, the irony.