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< January 2009 >

January 1, 2009
I-C-U Oh, the indignity. What`s on the grill? The party`s over, it`s time to go home. Could it be the same cat as August 6, 2004? It was on the same street, hiding from me as usual.

January 2, 2009
Year-round butterfly. Home sweet home. Home sweet home. Home sweet home. Home sweet home. Home sweet home. Home sweet home. Home sweet home. Home sweet home. `Way up in the middle of the air. So pure it floats. Round the bend.

January 3, 2009
Remember pay phones? They say everyone has an exact double walking around somewhere. Dead or alive? Nutritious or poisonous? What happens when kids are allowed to color outside the lines. Tentative.

January 4, 2009
The ghosts of my old playground. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. Soggy park. Mostly common grackles, a few robins. My hands and camera, reflected in my eye. Strictly a boredom shot.

January 5, 2009
A very simple, but satisfying picture. What did one wall say to the other wall? Meet you at the corner. My new battery charger emits a strange glow. I resist the urge to put my tongue on it. Blue oxford button-down shirts have been an essential part of my wardrobe since eleventh grade, but only today do I discover that they`re really only half blue. The fifth photo nearly didn`t happen on the fifth. I don`t know how I used to do this every day back in my youth.

January 6, 2009
Can you tell I`m detail-oriented? Only 73 days until spring. Circles Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree, by William Wordsworth. My reflection in the eye of a Volkswagen. Normally my photos don`t have `deeper meanings,` but this shot taken in my kitchen cabinet means: I hate winter.

January 7, 2009
Chilly Chevy. Chilly chairs. `Guess who?` I`m no Doctor Dolittle, but I understand scorn when I see it. The housing market continues to fall.

January 8, 2009
Face to face with art. Lots of paperwork on the first night of a new photo class. Kold Katie. Moonrise over my couch. These are a few of my favorite things.

January 9, 2009
Sharing an iPod, one earbud each. Recognize them? It snowbody I know. Large hole in very large window downtown. Just me and my nine imaginary friends. You saw this elevator already on October 19, 2008. There`s a feeling I get when I look to the west. LED ZEPPELIN

January 10, 2009
A cold, colorless day. Dental graffiti. Nope -- hungry. This statue was so small, I almost tripped over it. Maybe it`s Knee-high-miah. I guess the painters were in a hurry to leave (see December 11, 2006).

January 11, 2009
I still take pictures of water droplets, even in winter. No fake icicles needed for this tree. Be glad your species invented shoes. Where sno-cones come from. The sun almost came out.

January 12, 2009
She wore blue velvet. BOBBY VINTON Selected for this photo just because they looked old. I just finished reading all four of Paul Laurence Dunbar`s novels. Preserving the legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach. Injured in last month`s `Nutcracker` she sat out tonight`s ballet rehearsal.

January 13, 2009
Rooftops of U.D. Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful. A student`s standard equipment: laptop computer and bookbag. I can`t believe I ate the whole thing. Plush.

January 14, 2009
Very old Japanese currency. Very old Austrian currency. German notgeld, or emergency currency, used between the world wars when inflation was out of control. All the comforts of home. Outside in the snow with a camera and flash. What will the neighbors think?

January 15, 2009
What zero degrees looks like. A picture of disappointment - a totally blank roll of film I found in the trash can of the photo lab. My SECOND studio photography teacher (see May 2, 2006). `Will this be on the test?` During a discussion of the dangers of high-voltage lighting equipment, this device made a very loud BANG and caused some students to consider changing their major.

January 16, 2009
Well, at least it`s sunny. Aftermath of an assignment where students photocopied magazines to see what life was like way back in the `80s. On a day like today, ice cream is a tough sell. Dinner. `To Adam, For friendship, Herbert Woodward Martin, 01.16.09, Dayton, O.`

January 17, 2009
Trumpet`s up, sax is on deck. `Ah scoppa dee dop, muhdeedle deedle dawaayy dumm!` If your pictures aren`t good enough, you`re not close enough. ROBERT CAPA Subdued, but essential. Grand piano, with artwork by Curtis Barnes, Sr.

January 18, 2009
This HAS to mean it`s getting warmer. Much innovation is stifled by the fear of reinventing this. Don`t stick your tongue on it. What goes around comes around. `I warned that feller not to ski on my property!` BLAMM!!

January 19, 2009
I`m not sure what she`s making, but if it takes three irons and a bucket of ice, it`s best to just get out of the way. And I would`ve like to have known you, but I was just a kid. Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did. ELTON JOHN The best place to shoot this was in the middle of traffic. Where frostbite comes from. From my ever-growing bookshelf.

January 20, 2009
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. GERALD FORD (from his inaugural address) A million or two were there in Washington, but countless more watched. The expectations are on him, but it`s really up to that girl on the left, and that guy on the right. And you and me. One last glimpse of Bush. Now my apartment is at the opposite extreme (see June 6, 2008).

January 21, 2009
If you don`t get it, no caption is going to help. The Earth tilts a little and we have winter; it tilts the other way and we have summer. What if it was significantly closer or farther away from the sun? We wouldn`t be here. Some building in Kettering at sunset. All the lonely people - where do they all come from? All the lonely people - where do they all belong? JOHN LENNON Some other building in Kettering.

January 22, 2009
Lunch is from 1:00 to 1:10pm. Wandering around with a camera occupies the rest of the hour. Fair skies, cold temperatures. This picture is dumber than a box of rocks. A face only a sculptor could love. On the way to photo class.

January 23, 2009
Indoors it was springtime. A glimpse through the leaves. What 43 degrees looks like. Scavenged from bank documents by a frugal person. A frugal person works late on a Friday evening.

January 24, 2009
Always a rational man, Monsieur LeGrande was startled when touched by the frigid fingers of Fate. The world`s smallest airport. The sphere within the star represents the globe. It reminds us of our obligation to secure our nation`s freedom with Global Vigilance, Reach and Power. The globe also reminds us of our challenge as an expeditionary force to respond rapidly to crises and to provide decisive aerospace power, worldwide. The area surrounding the sphere takes the shape of a star. The star has many meanings. Its five points represent the components of our Total Force and family -- our active duty, civilians, Guard, Reserve and retirees. The star symbolizes space as the high ground of our nation`s air and space force. The rallying symbol in all our wars, the star also represents our officer corps, central to our combat leadership. Impolite. Bock`s Car, the B-29 bomber that ended World War II.

January 25, 2009
Moments later, it was squished by a car. Don`t touch that dial! What does it do to us, Wally, living in an environment where something as massive as the seasons or winter or cold, don`t in any way affect us? I think that means that instead of living under the sun and the moon and the sky and the stars, we`re living in a fantasy world of our own making. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE Snow warrior. Photo majors waiting outside the photography studio (15 degrees and snowing) because the lab tech is late.

January 26, 2009
There will come a day when I don`t take five photos. It was almost today. But thanks to a coincidental purchase at the fabric store, I got an idea for a series of pictures. Consider it an experiment in scale. Which is changing size: the circle or the squares?. I`m sure you`re anxious to know the answer to this visual riddle.

January 27, 2009
Did they cancel school without telling me? I don`t like rain, but it`s better than this. Blue morning. Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. ROMANS 9:13 The answer to yesterday`s visual riddle. The smallest circle was made with a hole-punch.

January 28, 2009
If I`d had one of these, I would`ve made it to work on time. The Man in Black. If I`d had one of these, I never would`ve made it to work. What a coincidence: the temperature and his IQ are the same number. Snowflakes are very gregarious.

January 29, 2009
Why are my ears so cold? Why are my legs so cold? Gnome sweet gnome. The end of compassion. Bach in the pit.

January 30, 2009
Glisten up! Sign of the season. Hugh, the manatee -- in front of the Humanities building. Get it? A totally spontaneous moment in the Library. Ready for mounting.

January 31, 2009
Don`t put your tongue on that. The weeping house. Fascinated by his own reflection. First the falling housing market, then the falling stock market, now the falling cheerleader market. Attitude.

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