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Good Friends

People who you can always count on no matter what are the best kinds of friends to have.  I’ve known Rebecca and Charlie for a long time and we have remained good friends even though we don’t get to see each other often enough.  Tonight they were so kind as to come over to my house for a few hours and let me test some new lighting techniques on them.  In September they will have been married for two years and it was fun to see them dancing together again, but this time in my living room.  To Becca and Charlie, thank you.  And to the rest of you, make sure you take the time to appreciate your true friends and let them know you care about them.

Geekspeak: I shot these images with a Canon 1D Mark III at about 1250 or 1600 ISO with a 50 1.4 at f2 and a 24-70 at 2.8. The shutter speeds were between 1/60th and 1/100th of a second. They were lit with a Lowell id-light at around 1/3 to 2/3 power by my awesome assistant Patrick McDermott.

Yoni @ Ten Months

From the second I met Yoni his eyes were fixed on me.  At first he didn’t seem to know what to make of me but after about 15 minutes he seemed to settle back into his comfort zone.  The picture below came together nicely with Yoni full of energy next to his dad Amir as Herzl made a move to give Jessica a kiss.  They are a great couple and were easy to photograph because they were able to just relax, have fun and ignore me.

This is just a few minutes after Yoni first saw me and he was pretty focused on the new guy in the house. Play time in the crib involves Yoni tossing out his toys. He does that here as his dad gives him a kiss. At the very end of my time with Yoni, Jessica and Amir as we got up Yoni decided he wanted to play with the lamp shade.

Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation

Tonight I donated my time to a very worthy cause that is working to build an interactive learning center at the site of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming where 11,000 Japanese-Americans were forced to live in an internment camp during World War II.  After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans.  The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation unveiled the plans tonight for an Interpretive Learning Center that will preserve the history and memory of what happened to so many Japanese-Americans.

Above are Alan Simpson, Norm Mineta, and David R. Reetz who is president of the board of directors. At the age of 12 in 1943 at a Boy Scout Jamboree, Norm Mineta who is a Japanese-American, former Senator and cabinet member to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, was befriended by former Wyoming senator Alan Simpson. Mineta was moved with his family from his home in San Jose, California and was living in the camp where he met and became good friends with Simpson who was a Scout from a nearby troop beyond the barbed wire fences. They have remained good friends ever since and both are now 77 and working closely with the foundation . Tonight they told stories of their friendship and spoke about the importance of maintaining the memory of what happened. Norm and Alan, lifelong friends embrace after the presentation. Norm listens as David R. Reetz speaks about the plans with Alan in the background.

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