{"id":1296,"date":"2009-08-24T01:43:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T16:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-24\/1296"},"modified":"2009-08-24T01:43:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T16:43:27","slug":"katies-birthday-party-curls-n-bowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-24\/1296","title":{"rendered":"Katie’s Birthday Party: Curls ‘n Bowling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nFinal Adjustments<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Yesterday, Anthony attended the birthday party of his five-year-old\nhonorary-cousin, Katie Patterson. (Katie's daddy has been a friend<\/span> of our\nfamily for 30 years, so has acquired family-member status).<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 190 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 3600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nExcitement Builds<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 120 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 3200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBirthday Girl<\/span>\nKatie Patterson\n<\/div>\n\n

The party was at a fun-center with bowling and other games, and crazy\nlighting that changed colors every few seconds. You didn't really pay much\nattention to it... one quickly learned to tune it out... but the camera\ndoesn't, of course, so the lighting is wild and different in every shot. We were near<\/span> the wash of sunlight coming from some windows, so that helped\neven things out a bit,<\/span> but the colors were still crazy...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 200 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMmmmmmmm!<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 24 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/4, ISO 5600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nTime for Presents<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Not having much experience shopping in America for a 5-year-old girl, I called<\/span> Jill (Katie's mom) beforehand for advice on a present,<\/span> and she\nsuggested that Katie would be thrilled<\/i> with a “Hungry Hippo” game.\nAnd boy-oh-boy, was she...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 120 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 4000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nHungry-Hippo Happy!<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 78 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 4500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThanks Cousin Anthony<\/span>\nphoto-op hug\n<\/div>\n\n

I was amazing at how well all the kids behaved. There happened to be\nanother five-year-old's birthday party in the neighboring lanes, and over\nthe course of two hours, all of the 15+ kids of the combined parties were\njust wonderful... no fussy meltdowns or anything. Really unexpected of a\nbunch<\/span> of four and five year olds. Wonderful.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 98 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 3200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThen It Was Time For Cake<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Katie was a natural at posing for photos..... both “Birthday Girl” and\n“Hungry-Hippo Happy” above were taken while she paused after seeing me take\na picture.<\/span>... there was no asking or coaxing required.<\/p>\n\n

Yet, a few weeks ago when I first saw her on my current trip to The\nStates, she was very shy of the camera. (I don't<\/span> blame her... she didn't\nreally know who I was,<\/span> other than one of her parents' friends.) So after\nthey'd joined us out for dinner one night, in the parking lot on the way\nback to our cars, I had the<\/span> camera out and asked whether I could<\/span> take her\npicture, and she immediately slid behind her daddy's leg to hide. So, to\ndemonstrate that it wouldn't hurt (or whatever), I showed<\/span> her as I took<\/span> an\nimpromptu portrait of her daddy (“Hey Ray, stand right there and look like\nit's not unpleasant”), then showed here the result on the back of the\ncamera....<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 200 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 5000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRay Patterson<\/span>\nimpromptu, in a restaurant parking lot\n<\/div>\n\n

They were coming over the next day for the Summer of\nCousins<\/a> big day, so after showing her the picture, I asked<\/span> whether\nshe'd let me take her picture tomorrow, and she smiled a super<\/span> photogenic\nsmile framed by blond curls.<\/p>\n\n

Sadly, it rained all day the next day, and they weren't able to come\nwhen it was rescheduled, so my first photo opportunity became her birthday\nparty. Despite the wild lighting and unphotogenic backgrounds, it's hard to\ngo wrong with curls like that.<\/p>\n\n

The big fun for the kids at the party was bowling. They had super-light\nkid bowling balls, and the lanes had gutter bumpers, so every shot was a\nwinner,<\/span> and all the kids had great fun.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 116 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAnthony's Perfect Bowling Form<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Anthony, of course, does not have any<\/i> bowling form... I have no<\/span>\nidea what he was doing to appear in the shot above as if he knew how to\nbowl, but it wasn't bowling.<\/p>\n\n

Here's how he actually bowled....<\/p>\n\n\n
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Two-Handed Heave<\/span><\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n

At this age, the gutter bumpers really make the difference between fun\nand not fun. No one cares<\/span> about the score (we didn't keep score), only having fun.\nAnthony's last roll of the day, right before they turned off the lanes, was his first\nstrike, so he ended the day on a great<\/span> note.<\/p>\n\n

Thanks for inviting us, Katie, and happy birthday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Anthony attended the birthday party of his five-year-old honorary-cousin, Katie Patterson. (Katie's daddy has been a friend of our family for 30 years, so has acquired family-member status).<\/p>

The party was at a fun-center with bowling and other games, and crazy lighting that changed colors every few seconds. You didn't really pay much attention to it... one quickly learned to tune it out... but the camera doesn't, of course, so the lighting is wild and different in every shot. We were near the wash of sunlight coming from some windows, so that helped even things out a bit, but [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}