My wife teaches third and forth grade combo class. Every year they do Life Science, so they hatch chicken. This is some one of the first baby chicks from this years hatchlings. The kids in the class named this one after me, since I played chicken herder this year and got all the fertilized eggs for them to hatch. 102 or 9 dozen eggs for six third grade classes.

Every year I go into the my wife’s class and do a chick fashion shoot. I do a different theme. The first year was KFC Box theme. Last year was a KFC Bucket theme, this years theme is Easter.

The eggs in the basket are real. They came from the same hens that laid the eggs that these baby chicks were hatched from.

Here is the link to the Chicks set

45/365 Fenton’s Sliders with a Black and Tan, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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Sunday Valentine’s Day my sweetie and I went to Fenton’s Creamery in Oakland to split Sliders and a Fenton’s Famous Black and Tan Sundae

44/365 Paper Whites, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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Paper White in Oakland/ Piedmont California

43/365 TJ Orchid, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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While shopping at Trader Joe’s

Every year they day they start to hatch I arrive with my travel studio equipment and set up a little studio. Over the years a I learned a few tricks.

1. Take paper towels to clean up the poop.
2. Use a seamless background (paper) so you can throw away fouled paper
3. Take images within the first day of hatching. Chicks are easier to manage when the are a day old. Any older and they are hard to keep in the same spot.
4. Don’t drop them off the table, they break.

Here is a slide show of some of the images I took in the past. Yes, I have a warped sense of humor.

41/365 Ornamental Pear, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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This is an Ornamental Pear Tree that has recently blossomed. Spring is close, you can tell when these trees bloom.

40/365 Redjected, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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The other day I woke up and I saw these sitting on top of the of the closed dumpster. I guess someones romantic night went horrible wrong.

After several days these roses were still on the dumpster, so I took a photo of them before I tossed them in the compost been. “Happy Valentine’s Day.”

39/365 Spicy BBQ Ribs, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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I cooked some Spicy BBQ Ribs in the slow cooker. It required for them to be in the cooker for 6-8 hours. If I would have left them in their for 8 hours, the meat would have been totally off the bone. As it was all you had to do is pick up the end and the meat slid off.

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SB600
Pocket Wizards II
Lasolite 24in. EzyBox
3/16 White Core Foam Board

36/365 Oak Gall Art, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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My wife is a 3/4 grade teacher. This term they are doing a study of the local indians that lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. One of the things they do is create a piece of art from a “Oak Gall” or “Wasp Gall”. These were the best among and my wife asked me if I would photograph them.

Strobist Info:
SB600
Pocket Wizards II
Lasolite 24in. EzyBox
(2) 3/16 White Core Foam Board