Daniel Greene

Tag: photos

  • Grand Opening of Harkins Christown 14

    I read on the Harkins Theatres web site that they would be holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the grand opening of the Christown 14 theatres at 11:15 this morning. I got there just a couple of minutes late, but they had done the ceremony at around 10 because people had been lining up around the building and waiting since 6.

    I had an interesting experience as I ran up to the theatre from my car with my camera: a young woman walked by and quickly asked, “Newspaper?” I said, “No,” and she said, “Just for your own enjoyment, then,” and walked to her car. She was wearing a backpack, and it made me wonder whether she were a journalist, and why she wanted to know. I just wanted to get a photo, and didn’t want to take the time to explain that I was a blogger of sorts, and although I wasn’t exactly “Newspaper,” I wasn’t just doing this for my own enjoyment, either. I saw this as an opportunity to take my new lens and battery grip out for a shoot and gain some “event photography” experience in the meantime.

    Anyway, I get excited about urban renewal, cinema, theater, and architecture, so I enjoyed getting there and taking this photo even if I didn’t catch a ribbon-cutting and had to run off to work right after snapping a couple of shots.

    I’m glad I looked professional enough to be mistaken for a newspaper photographer, though! 😉

  • Cordial Glasses in Antique Store

    The amazing thing about these is that I inherited 5 glasses like this from my grandmother, who did at one time live in Prescott. I wonder if she bought them there. Does anyone know anything about the provenance of these glasses?

    They have no mark on the bottom, and they look hand blown (each one is unique). The lady in the store was kind enough to sell me just the two yellow-green glasses on the front left, because those are the ones that look like my grandmother’s.

  • Tiny Little Lizard Eggs



    Tiny Little Lizard Eggs
    Originally uploaded by danielgreene.

    My partner Andy called to me from the back yard yesterday evening and said there was something he wanted me to see. He had moved a cut-off tree stump that we have in the back yard for decoration, and moving it had revealed a little mama lizard and her two tiny eggs underneath. Andy saw the mama lizard scurry off, and when he first showed me these tiny eggs, I thought they were Tic Tacs until he told me what had just happened. I had to run and get my tripod and macro lens and take a photo of this quick before the twilight faded away. Right after I took this photo (long 5-second exposure), we replaced the stump where it had been before, and we hope the lizard will come back to incubate her eggs.

  • Phoenix Library at Summer Solstice

    At about 12:30 (solar noon on this particular day), people at the Burton Barr Central Library in downtown Phoenix watched as the sunshine flooded the west wall and lit up the tops of the columns like ice blue “flames” atop “candles.” It was not what I would consider a spectacular event, but a quiet one in which a people gathered in a building and witnessed their and the building’s place in the universe… or at least that’s what the architect, Will Bruder, brainwashed me into thinking. 😉

  • Andy & Me in Ketchikan



    Me and Andy in Ketchikan
    Originally uploaded by danielgreene.

    This is one of the photos we had taken of us while on our Alaskan cruise. We sailed on the Norwegian Star to Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway, AK and Prince Rupert, BC, leaving from and returning to Seattle, WA. We had an absolutely wonderful time, and I would recommend it to anyone. To see more of our vacation photos, visit either my Flickr account or Andy’s.