Another from the swim meet mentioned in the next post. I woke up the next day and could not figure out why my legs were sore. Eventually it occurred to me that I took many low angle shots and my aches must be from crouching so much at the pool....Makes me wonder how Varitek does it? 
Friend Stacie invited us to Roslindale, where she coaches the Gators swim team. I immersed myself in shooting as the kids methodically took turns swimming their laps. This meet was Gator on Gator, with the white capped Gators handily defeating Stacie's green capped Gators. I shot several hundreds of pics and absolutely love 4 to 5, including this one.
It's been a rough winter for ms phoenix as she has not had as many walks as she would normally like. Or maybe you can already tell this from her expression.
I actually can't be bothered to determine which day this shot is from, I think that the clock in this camera is still set to "not daylight savings time", plus I do not consider after midnight the next day like the convention. Anyone else feel this way, that its not officially the next day until you go to bed and get up? So anyway I can not be bothered...the technology has put this shot in this day so here it is.
Speaking of the 02536, the center of the universe, has a new pub. J.R Brody's opened to good crowds. Myself and e were only able to make it to three out of their first four nights. Maybe we can do better this week. Note that their linked website is under construction, but be sure to check back, as good things are sure to be coming.
Whisking back to my sweet, good tunes, the worlds best pup enjoying the view towards the vineyard in the back of a sporty grey gti in the 02536, sometimes I have to pinch myself at how good things are. Now only if there were guinness in the fridge, oh well you can't have everything!
Had a little scare here...I was pretty sure I had taken some shots on this day, but then I couldn't find any....but after checking, I had only neglected the upload from this day....whew! Another from phoenix 365.
An astute viewer will note that there was not a week six shot. This was because I loved the week 5 shot so much I let it stay up for 2 weeks, but alas it was time for a change.
My favorite shot of this day is a nude...but so far this site and blog have not had these, and as e says... perhaps her parents and friends don't want to see her boobs.
Photography, like life can be funny sometimes...when I took this one, I thought it was a throw away, but now several days later, I rather enjoy it. e and I went to a party last night and I wasn't sure I would have fun as we have been trying to return to normalcy and I knew I would not know many peeps there. Turns out the go2536 hat was a party talk piece, who knew, and I left having had fun!
This is the poorest advertising in the world, but we have more copies of the winter edition of benshotme the magazine available- and as you can see they are on demand by post it note - so they must be good!
I think I have decided to join the upper cape camera club. We will know for sure in a couple weeks when the first meeting that I have an opportunity to go to comes and goes. If I have attended and enjoyed it, then I will have joined. This is being sparked by missing having a photo community. I am wondering how the first meeting will go...Hi my name is ben, I take photos.........
When you spend days on your couch slowly watching the hills of Kleenex roll in on you, well you begin to get a little self esoteric. 
The cold/flu, whatever, stripped me of a couple days of productivity. A week later the congestion is still clearing and e is showing symptoms of now being the ill one, we seem to be having some sort of illness seesaw this winter.
e is what we like to call a "reader". Presently she is reading Russell Brands booky wook for the record I want to state that e was in the bathroom in London when I discovered Russell Brand and choose to share him with her. Now she would be throwing her bra at him, well maybe not, but she likes him a lot. To be even more precise it was the 11th of May in 2006 when we discovered the Brand, for those of you who follow us closely, I believe this is the same day that e blogged about beach sides in England from the train.
The local newspaper, it will always hold a bit of a soft spot in my heart, as they used to give me lots of free film for "assignments", but I no longer have any trouble when people call it the empytprise. I mean really, this weeks edition of the not fit for front page, front page story's headline reads:
As I write this I am suffering from the flu or something like it. Does anyone else feel like their consciousness changes during an illness, that they are looking through to the world with a different perspective? I think I am a decent sickie as I tend not to complain (much).
If I had a choice between you coming to the blog and reading the posts or looking at the photos....I would of course choose look at photos, that is why I tend to make these text snippets short and boring.
Happy Ground Hogs day. On this day phoenix did not see her shadow, therefor her guy will continue to shorten and lengthen the seasons however he sees fit to best support his argument. Happy Spring!
My favorite shot from this day is actually of phoenix, pup ambassador, but I know I have a number of days coming up that the only choice will be of the pup....So here is one from the "beer" series, on super bowl Sunday at Liam Maguire's
The trouble with trying to pick a photo from each day is that some days there are more than one that deserve to be recognized. For me a day spent wandering around any new location will create multiple images. This day a Friday in January in Ny was cold, we got to see Rockefeller Center and the skaters, we walked from mid-town to The Guggenhiem, took a tour bus ride and had dinner with old friends. How can more days be like this day?
Sarah Murphy's reading about her now departed dog was the second time I had almost cried in the last 2 days. The day before I was almost moved to tears by the insanity and dedication of Tehching Hsieh's, Time clock Piece, 1980–81, after viewing it at the Guggenheim.
The east village and dinner at Frank with Stephanie and Dan was loud and fun and totally foreign from our normal routine.
The trip to Ny was our christmas present to each other and the reason was to see Kings of Leon. There were lots of little kids (you know college age little kids), this made me feel simultaneously old and young. The show was touching as the band was very appreciative of this, their first HUGE show. The lead said he had been dreaming of this night his whole life, and we all believed him.
We are pretty sure if phoenix could talk, she would say that winter stinks. She especially hates it when walks are missed and will sulk around the house.
I took this photo because of the dramatic lighting, but then several days later I noticed another flag in a shot from MSG and this got me thinking, anyone else been noticing the flag with a sense of pride again?
One thing that made the Ny trip easy was the new phone. We were able to stay "connected" the entire time and I never got stressed about what I might be falling behind on.
This is last Sunday, I am blogging from this Sunday where the world is still settling back to a scene like last Sunday.... You see we spent 2 days in Ny, Ny, for a show at MSG and then returned to a January open mic night at a Mashpee art center...you might wonder how that went, well the pace is certainly different.
That's is e having just enjoyed her egg's benny. We have been married going on 8 years, I call her my x-girlfriend.
We have been having a boys night for sometime, it is supposed to be every Friday night. We get together about 2 times a month. Occasionally we go out of the house. For some reason the wives are never concerned. But boys night does have a singular rule when it leaves the house. "I cannot confirm or deny if we went over the bridge."
How many of us wonder if they should keep a diary or write their own biography, you know the autobiography. My autobiography should probably be termed a volksbooken. Occasionally I think about recording some of the pivotal moments or more humorous of these days I have lived. I wonder from time to time, if now these posts and the work I have been doing lately are as good a biography as I could make and if I should just try to include some of those bits here and there,here......
phoenix's mum spent the days after the inauguration wearing some of her peeps of great importance necklaces. This is not why this is shot 21. It being a fairly sharp long exposure with really fun ghosting in the back ground is why (click on it for the bigger version to see the ghosting).
This was phoenix's first election and her first opportunity to see the transition of one to another head of state of her nation. Years from now she will be telling people how she slept through the whole thing. Fortunately for her, her mum has been telling her all about it for days since.
When a song has an alluring grab you by the collar chorus or lick they call it the hook. I have been looking for a photographic hook for some time. This shot is another in a long list of potential hooks that seems like it could be fun... look for more like this in coming days and posts.
Ella our 6 year old niece was our companion as she rolled a 56 in her first ever trip to a bowling alley and her second frame saw her improve by 14 pins! She was very cute not willing to even leave the shoe putting on area for a short amount of time after donning her tiny shoes. She gathered her gumption and did eventually settle into having a great time.
We finally got out of the house, e was able to get back in the saddle again and we can now call ourselves bowlers again!
Your first thought at seeing this might be, WTF? or what is this? or I don't get it, is that art? Well we have been having quite a winter so far with lots of slushy rainsnow. So the photography has been largely inward looking, you the reader are getting a little glimpse into our existence here stuck in the house. This is a perfect example, we read our local big news in the Enterprise. E enjoys each morning what we have termed the "full erica", what everyone else calls poached eggs. And I in an attempt to continue reliving our days of vacation while in Italy, eat olives.
I had a different shot, another from 365 for this day, but then I changed my mind. It is after all winter. In the back is the stove e and I battle over. She likes to turn the fan on high "to get the heat out". I like to keep the fan low...so we can sleep.
The last post was a before. Here is an after. And a reminder that there are only 345 shopping days until Christmas and perhaps you should be thinking about getting some go2536 gear
I do not do a lot with photoshop or like programs. 99 percent of what you see at benshotme.com and here at the blog is exactly what was recorded by the camera. Usually a jpeg. I have been enjoying some of the stylized cool images I have come across lately, reminiscent of cross processing. This image I did play around with some and the resulting image is one of my facebook profile pics. So a find a "before" here and friend me up at facebook or search around the archives at benshotme to see the "after".
I am presently driving three times a week off cape. e will be happy for me to remind you all that it is "on the cape", not "at the cape" or "in the cape". 
I am having trouble not reverting to the phoenix 365 for almost every pic...but we have a friend who is probably just as cute as the little pup. Hard to imagine that it took a whole 11 days before we got a visit from little Addie cakes, but she really cannot drive yet, so we blame her drivers.
One of the best compliments I have ever had about my photographs was;
