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Run To Daylight
by The Groove Krewe featuring Nick Daniels III
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z127stMxdlg&list=RDz127stMxdl...
I named this photo after a song of the same title that my dad, Dale Murray, co-wrote in 2022. My dad passed away unexpectedly a few weeks ago so I thought I’d commit to writing some of the details I learned about his music career while I can remember them, such as the story behind this song.
In 2022, following a formula they’d established back in the 1970s, before my dad took a 30-year hiatus from music to work a daytime job at a welding supply shop to provide for his family, dad and his writing partner, Rex Pearce, picked some songs they’d written and set off on a quest to get them recorded. Working with their good friend, studio owner and renowned keyboard player Nelson Blanchard, they put together a dream team of session musicians, then went in search of just the right vocalist for the project. The stars aligned and they landed Nick Daniels III (1955-2024), bassist with the legendary New Orleans funk band Dumpstaphunk, who was looking to do more vocal work, as their featured singer.
The musicians got along like a house on fire in the studio, and after they’d recorded enough material for the five-song EP that dad and Rex were looking to release, Nick was so enthusiastic about the project that he reportedly asked dad, Rex, and Nelson if they had any more material that he could work with. They did, and while dad’s partners got with Nick to go over some songs they had on hand, dad sat down and started writing what became this song and, later, the title track of the larger effort that the collaboration evolved into: the ten-song album, “Run To Daylight.” Rex and Nelson put some touches on the song, Nick jumped back in the live room, and he and the band knocked it out of the park in just a couple of takes.
Immediately after dad’s death, I was reluctant to listen to any of the recordings he’d played on, written for, or produced, not knowing what effect it would have on me, and not wanting to feel the loss any more deeply than I was feeling it already. Then, one morning, I found myself standing in dad’s bedroom just a few feet from where he’d drawn his last breath days before. (Maybe I was looking for something? I can’t remember now...) Without thinking about it, maybe because the morning light streaming through the window was just so beautiful that day, I pulled up “Run To Daylight” on my phone and rocked out to the song at full volume. I was smiling, thinking about dad and his fellow musicians back there at Nelson’s, guys he knew and loved, like fish in water whenever they got into the studio, marveling at the energy of Nick Daniels III (rest in peace, Nick), high-fiving each other when Boogie Long came in with those first few guitar licks, probably thinking they had a hit on their hands but not caring too much about that because they were having such a rockin’ good time right then and there, and life is just so dang good when you’re doing what you love.
Still just playing with the new gear. I'm having a hard time figuring out the new updated software and haven't really figured out how to find stuff after I've processed it!
Not the first time Phil and I have shot this rustic looking bridge in the New Forest. Really noticing the woodland areas totally muted of colour as we get closer to the end of another long winter. Will be great to see some colour emerging at the start of spring. Lit with the Back Light Scanner and a few rgb panel lights.
I'm surprised that our squirrels eat any acorns at all, since the wife feeds them a couple or three cups of roasted peanuts every day.
I'm even more surprised that she doesn't have them eating out of her hand by now.
It's all about a gentle, often slightly blurred, aesthetic. Unlike sharp, crisp photos where every detail is in perfect focus, soft photography embraces a more dreamlike or ethereal quality. In the photo, the edges of the petals might not be razor-sharp, and the background is beautifully blurred.
It often uses shallow depth of field. but it means only a very small part of the image is in sharp focus (like the very center of the flower), while everything in front of it and behind it gradually blurs out. This technique draws your eye directly to the main subject and creates a sense of depth and separation.
Hopefully It emphasizes feeling over absolute detail. Soft photography often evokes emotions like calm, peace, tranquility, or romance.
I had a rough week at work last week, but that was OK because I had something to look forward to on Saturday morning - meeting Gaylon Keeling [ www.flickr.com/photos/gaylon/ ] for the first time and making my first visit to the Blackwater Conservation Area, a setting I only knew about through some of Gaylon’s excellent nature photography.
I had a great time hiking the trails with Gaylon and learned these lessons from him:
(1) You gotta shoot in RAW. (Your storage limits permitting.) (I’m not shooting in RAW yet. It might be time.)
(2) Spot metering is a great tool.
(3) If someone asks you unexpectedly to shoot a wedding, think long and hard about whether it’s something you want to do.
(4) Whatever you do, have fun doing it!
a rare digital color shift in my collection. "Regular" composition was a sunny, blue sky and silver sign.
I simply MUST remember to get some OFF skeeter spray!!
btw...I wanted a shot of the river itself, but it's Summer and the thick growth of vines and prickly things blocked my way.
Have a great week!
... with frozen eyebrows - he looks older as he is .... 2 years old Belgain shepherd - Tervueren boy Oscar
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We're still on a weather roller coaster here in the deep south, with temps fluctuating from the 80's to the 20's on a weekly basis.
Stay warm!!
I've stopped at this spot down the road from me to shoot for a few years now. I used to be able to see where a house once stood on this property and there are flowering shrubs that are now growing wild.
A couple of years back, it had a for sale sign up, but it didn't stay up for long. Now I'm noticing signs that someone is keeping it bushhogged and have removed the old pillars and steps that showed where a house once stood.
I fear that some day soon I will go to shoot the pond and there will be signs of new construction and, perhaps, barriers to access.
That will be a sad day for me.