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This was a fun day. It was a Jazz Jam at Tessora’s, our favorite wine bar in Campbell. The afternoon began with some white Sangria made by our favorite Sommelier, Hannah. Absolutely perfect for patio jazz on a Sunday afternoon. Frankie, the sax player is absolutely amazing! He can play two saxophones at the same time. He loves to work the crowd. Isis put this thing together and they will be doing it every other Sunday at Tessora’s.

The lighting was a bit problematic as the musicians were under umbrellas, making for a lot of contrast. Once I switched to spot metering things came out okay.

Once again I am a day behind. These pictures were all taken in haste on Saturday. There are only 7 as I could not find 10 that I liked that were different enough. I only took 62 shots. It seems that if I can get up to about 100 or so, finding ten that I actually like is pretty easy. A goal for this whole exercise is to get that ratio down. I’d like to be able to take 25 or 30 shots and get 10 good ones. I am not sure what a good ratio is or even if that is a valuable way to measure myself as a photographer.

We shall see.

I know I am a day late but all of these pictures were taken on Friday – I just did not get a chance to process and post.Hopefully I can take another round of shots today and process and post later tonight.

I took a little photo walk in my neighborhood and made good use of my macro lens. Lots of trash. Suburbia always intrigues me as it does not have the cool factor of the urban setting or the comforting feeling of the country. Everything seems out of place. So many of these shots seem to be of things that don’t belong where they are yet that’s we continue to find them.