Few things tell a story better than a picture, so I'm aiming to post at least one photo a day for 2009.  Some will have words to go along with them, and some won't.  Here's one to get started:

I’m finally ready to call attention to my photo blog – Riceminers.com.  It’s been up for a few weeks now but I wasn’t quite comfortable giving out the link while it was still incomplete.  Even now it still isn’t 100 percent done, but you can head on over and check it out anyway.  It’s a hobby that I’m hoping to improve on.  Many of the photos have already been posted here in the past.  Leave some comments, and if you want a print, just click details and you can order one through Google Checkout.  Keep an eye out more features and photos in the future.

It seems like it’s becoming routine to head out with my camera on Saturdays. This time around I went with my brother Kevin, and we ended up going down to the factories on Canal St. in Shelton.  Here’s a few that I felt might be worth sharing:

I liked this last one because it caught a cop pulling over a car that had just run a red light. I took this from the top of the Derby parking garage looking out towards Shelton.  Lucky for me but not for the driver I guess.

It was cold, and there wasn’t much going on. So I went to the beach. I think it’s a perfectly normal thing to do in the hours before a snowstorm. Here’s a couple pics:

The tricky part of photographing light fixtures is keeping yourself from showing up in the reflection when it has a polished finish.  I’m going through somewhere around 50 antiques at work today for a new category that we’re hoping to have launched on our website by the end of the week.  Some of them date back as far as year 1800 and we’ve got some really cool ones lying around.  You really begin to appreciate them a lot more once you start paying attention to the detail.  It seems like I’m always doing something new here… it keeps things interesting.

Update: If you want to take a look at the end result, please check out the Antique & Architectural Salvage Lighting section at Grand Light.  The particular fixture you see pictured above is a Colonial Revival Style 4 Arm Chandelier.