Daniel Greene

Author: Daniel Greene

  • Our Crazy, Noisy Dogs

    I was awakened this afternoon (staying at home with the flu) to these crazy noises of our dog Buxley playing with Andy. I got up and shot this to capture the hard-to-believe noise he makes.

  • Mama said there would be days like these.

    This is what three consecutive nights of sub-freezing temperatures did to this plant. I shot this on a cold, cloudy morning just before it began to rain again. I know this is not a pretty picture, but it does document the morbidity of the scene as I saw it, with those dull colors.

    In the meantime, Andy and I are sick with the flu, so we don’t feel much better than this.

    Oh, and in case you’re wondering, I had to bundle up this morning and take the dogs for a walk, so I just snapped this quickly after the walk while I was still bundled up. And what am I still doing out of bed? All right, Mama, I’m going back to bed now…

  • Sad story on NPR made me cry

    Yesterday I heard this story about girls with obstectric fistulas in Ethiopia on NPR. It was so sad, I called Andy to share my grief, and when he answered, I was so choked up I couldn’t even speak. I wish that ignorance and lack of access to resources didn’t cause such awful things to happen anywhere in the world.

  • Anticipation


    Anticipation
    Originally uploaded by danielgreene.

    It’s below freezing here in Phoenix this morning, and the most that will come out of our kitchen sink is an occasional drip.

    I thought I’d experiment with a blue-toned monochrome for this image, since blue is the color of water (sort of), and the image was fairly monochromatic to begin with. The blue tone also seems to evoke the emotion of wanting… waiting… missing something.

  • Meeting Toni Tennille

    I met Toni Tenille when I was working at J.W. Robinson in Beverly Hills. She was very gracious. I told her about how “Love Will Keep Us Together” was the first album I ever spent my allowance on (ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” was the first single). I told her about how, when I was 9, I was riding in the car with my paternal grandparents, sitting on the front bench seat between Granny and Grandpa, with my hand on grandpa’s leg. I was singing, “The Way That I Want to Touch You” without even thinking about it when my grandmother suddenly asked, “Danny! What is that song you’re singing? That’s an awfully strange lyric for a boy to be singing!” And imagine how my grandfather felt with my hand on his leg while I sang it! Well, Toni laughed and said, “Ah, kids!” (politely skipping over the embarrasing issues that could be read into that story) and told me that she was really proud of that song because she wrote it.

    I never realized it until just now, writing this, but I have had the supreme delight of meeting the artists who made the first music I ever bought! How many people can say that? Thank you, ABBA and Toni Tenille! 😀