Dustin Francis Photography

I have a lot of things going on in my personal life lately.  I have been experiencing some of the most intense feelings and emotions I have ever had and I have to say that so much of what I feel is conflicting on so many different levels.  All in all, this is something that has to happen and I will be going through a tremendous amount of growth over the next year or two.  As difficult as everything has been, I welcome it into my heart and my life and have great hope for where this growth takes me…

I have been having a crazy amount of dreams lately, that are very vivid and long.  Last night after seeing The Watchmen (which made me think SO much) I had a wonderful dream and part of it took place in a location like the one below.  I wish I could go there now and visit my dream 🙂

I know many of you have noticed, I have not blogged in two weeks.  It’s because I was having issues with actually posting.  I fixed it Friday and will resume as scheduled.  I have a post to put up tonight I am excited about and of course have a Tuesday’s Tidbits tomorrow as well.  I am also going to blog about my blog….where I got it from, why I use it and how awesome it is!  I don’t like posting without pics, so here’s a self portrait of me a couple years ago in an abandoned house and yes, I had permission to be there.  Thanks for your patience!

 

Here’s another image from the Law Quad from ’06.  I love this one because of the symmetry as well as the distinct foreground, mid ground, and background…I would love to see this in 3D.  I have gotten a lot of response from you local photographers who want to get together and shoot.  When should we do it?  The more the merrier!

 

As many of you know, Kassy and I have kitties and we adore them very much!  I was testing out a new lens last week, so it was a purrrfect time to take some kitty pics of them playing with my mouse, which has a laser pointer in it.  Looking through the pics of them over the months, they definitely look like ‘adults’ now, although they act like toddlers, but we like that.  Here are our girls…Moxie and Bokeh.

 

What kitty doesn’t appreciate a little laser pointer action?!?

 

Stealth mode.

Moxie’s cute little tongue…

Bokeh just likes to sit there and watch sometimes.

She also likes to participate too!

She craves attention more than Moxie though…

Aren’t our girls cute?

Belly rubs!

My Bokeh…

I love her little paws…

She likes to ‘sit pretty’ like this…

Moxie loves her mama.

 

 

 

Photographers note:  These image were taken with a Nikon D3 with a 50 f/1.4G at 1600ISO, f/1.4, 1/160th sec. with light provided by hallway light, lamps, and an SB-800 bounced off a corner, gelled with a full CTO at 1/16th power and fired from the camera with a Pocket Wizard.  This is how I light smaller rooms and some receptions.  The last shot was with a Nikon D3 with a 70-200 f/2.8 VR shot wide open at f/2.8, 1/50th of a sec at 6400ISO with.