Among the new things I’m trying this year is Vimeo, a video service that is much like YouTube, but allows free upload of HD content. I shot this HD video at 60 frames per second on the Zi6 at Sammy’s basketball game last night. When I play it back, it doesn’t look very good on Vimeo on my computer…don’t know how it will look on yours. (The video on my computer, straight from the camera, is amazingly good.)

Also, the preview here is only 400X300. When you click the link and go to my Vimeo space, it’s in full resolution.

Sammy playing ball from Tim McDaniel on Vimeo.

Happy Thanksgiving!

No, not Happy Turkey Day. The only happy turkeys are…well, you can’t be a happy turkey. Either you’re dead or you’re still a turkey. Not a great choice. The point of the day is not to celebrate turkeys, it’s to celebrate thanksgiving…you know, the giving of thanks.

And it’s not just the giving of thanks, but giving thanks to our Creator, our Maker, the One who provides life and all the good things we enjoy.

Like turkey (and dressing and mashed potatoes and football and the Gators and – you get the idea).

To repeat myself, we don’t celebrate turkeys, we kill them.

That would also make this a good day to kill the Turkey Spirit. That would be the attitude that doesn’t give thanks, that takes things for granted, that complains at everything, that is awed by nothing.

That’s the intro to this clip, which is perfect for Thanksgiving, and which I may use the next time I preach about complaining.

(Honestly, this has to be one of my favorite clips ever.)

Doesn’t she have that look on her face?

Happy Birthday to my best friend, my partner, my {blush} lover, my wife…the Lovely Trudi celebrates the day the world was blessed with her.

And we celebrate, too.

A little sympathy for Trudi today…she’s spent more of her life with me than without me. We’ve been married 22 years today; she was only 21 when we married. Obviously, she didn’t figure out how to get her fingers out of those rings quick enough. (Odd games photographers play, don’t you think?)

It’s been a great 22 years.