The Fawn
Fawn 85mm, f/5.6, 1/180s
The kids found a fawn in the yard today. I wasn’t home when the fawn was discovered and arrived at the house to find my 7-year old son on the phone with a rancher friend asking what we should do. He told us to leave it alone but send him a picture. We slowly approached and took a few shots. The fawn wrinkled its nose a bit but other wise ignored us even when we were in arm’s length…seemed sick or something. However, a couple of hours later the kids reported that it was running around the yard. All was well. Oh yeah, photo processing was mostly hitting the Auto button in Lightroom.
Fawn 150mm, f/5.6, 1/180s
Debussy…Practice Makes Perfect
Practice, practice, practice 95mm, f/2.8, 1/400s, ISO 3200
I recently posted this on Google+ but thought I’d share it here too.
It seems like the piano goes 24/7 in the house, which is a good thing when the music is Debussy, Beethoven Sonatas, incredible arrangements of the Pirates theme, beautifully improvised hymns, etc. Sometimes “The Little Indian Song” can wear on you though (a couple young ones are just starting out) 🙂
Having our own regrets about quitting music lessons and hearing so many others express those same regrets, we’ve always “made” our kids take piano lessons until they were 18 under pain of death and all that (for the record it’s never been a real problem to keep them going). They could learn other instruments too but piano was a must. Without exception our children (age 24 and down) have expressed great gratitude for our rigidness in this. I don’t believe any child actually kept up with lessons until age 18 but that was because proficiency, rather than an arbitrary timeframe, was our goal. All were quite good before age 18 and a couple even played in UT’s Bates Recital Hall. The daughter pictured here requested on her own to start lessons again even after we said she could be done — she enjoys it.
Michael Tuuk Photography 