Kristine Blauser Scalzi, 9/18/11

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1. David Wilson says:
   September 18, 2011 at 8:23 pm

   :)
2. Tyler Tork says:
   September 18, 2011 at 8:26 pm

   I like the composition; the hair is very swoopy.
3. Jeff L says:
   September 18, 2011 at 8:26 pm

   I have to be honest, when I saw just the subject line in email I thought this was a far more somber type of announcement…
4. tmso says:
   September 18, 2011 at 8:29 pm

   @ Jeff L – yeah, that’s what I thought, too. Gorgeous hair (along with a gorgeous gal).

   I cut mine long ago, and keep saying I’m gonna grow it out, but never do. My resolve has been renewed! :)
5. Benjamin says:
   September 18, 2011 at 8:57 pm

   My wife is also starting to show a few grey hairs. I love it.
6. Dana says:
   September 18, 2011 at 9:04 pm

   Better than a random stranger, fer shure.
7. Ari B. says:
   September 18, 2011 at 9:27 pm

   @Jeff L- Me too. Had a seriously unpleasant double-take there… Glad I was wrong. :-)
8. Xopher says:
   September 18, 2011 at 9:41 pm

   Me too. Post titles that are simply the full name of a person are usually death announcements. This one also had today’s date on it, which doesn’t fit the pattern, but I had a second or two of horror before I realized it was just a picture of your lovely wife, and not a sad announcement of her demise.

   May there be pictures of this wonderful woman in their thousands and their ten thousands, before ever such an announcement be made by anyone!
9. Erin says:
   September 18, 2011 at 10:16 pm

   She looks like a happy woman!
10. Jennifer R. Ewing says:
    September 18, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    #s 3, 7 and 8 should try to think happier thoughts–I was actually thinking it might be a birth announcement of some sort, because death announcements usually list both DOB and DOD. I wondered briefly if you and Krissy had an unexpected surprise you hadn’t mentioned before, or if (god forbid) Athena had surprised the two of you.

    As always, a very beautiful lady. I’m thinking very tall as well–the cabinets are in pretty sharp focus so she’s probably not standing that far away from them, and I can tell you right now that “space saver” microwaves are the bane of my existence because I’m barely tall enough to reach the door. Even accounting for distance, it looks like your wife’s head is easily on a level for her to to not only reach the door, but be able to check on things while they cook (lucky woman!).
11. BeVibe says:
    September 18, 2011 at 10:58 pm

    Krissy – tall, lovely woman. John – very lucky man.
12. John Scalzi says:
    September 18, 2011 at 11:15 pm

    Jennifer R. Ewing:

    Krissy is about five foot ten. In that particular picture, she’s also wearing heels.
13. Jason says:
    September 19, 2011 at 12:15 am

    Hmm…John is flattering his wife, clearly he must have either set a cat on fire by accident or signed them both up for the CDF.
14. Charles Perkins says:
    September 19, 2011 at 12:45 am

    I salute you, sir, on your consistent appreciation of the source of happiness.
15. Hugh Casey says:
    September 19, 2011 at 7:32 am

    Yes. Yes it is.
16. JD Rhoades says:
    September 19, 2011 at 8:24 am

    I raise my coffee cup in salute to your good fortune.

    Dayum.
17. Dave H says:
    September 19, 2011 at 8:29 am

    “Because any day is a fine day to take a picture of my wife.”

    In your opinion, perhaps. Try catching her as she’s coming out of the shower and ask her how she feels about it just then.

    But when she’s on board with it, I agree it’s a wonderful thing.
18. Dan Someone says:
    September 19, 2011 at 10:33 am

    Like others, I was very worried when the post title came up in my RSS feed. Please don’t scare me like that.
19. John Scalzi says:
    September 19, 2011 at 10:39 am

    Guys, if she was dead, you wouldn’t know it by me posting a blog entry about it. You would know it because the blog would be gone.
20. Greg says:
    September 19, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    the backdrop is a bit cluttery, if thats a word.

    if you put your camera in portrait mode it should open the aperature as far as it can. this will cause things farther away in the background to go a bit fuzzy, which then draws attention away from the six jars of spice on the stove and the two outlets on the wall, and pushes the attention visually towards your wife.

    theres a bit of fuzziness going on, but the walls may be too close for a standard issue kit lense to do much. kit lens usually has a moderate amount of zoom capability (18-55 or something) but the aprrature can only open up to f4 or f5 or so.

    if you pick up a ‘portrait lens’, usually a fixed 50mm lens, it can open up the aperature to somehing like f1.2, which then would make the walls a lot fuzzier. they sometimes refer to that lense as a ‘nifty fifty’.

    havent bought one for my camera yet. maybe santa will bring me one.
21. Pucca the Rabbit says:
    September 19, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    I see the Love in her eyes for you……and she has a BEAUTIFUL smile and ageless skin. Krissy may you always be as beautiful as your are in this Picture.
22. htom says:
    September 19, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    I, too, mistook the title for an instant, and put it down to having just come from a funeral. I’m glad to know I was wrong, and that I’m not the only one.

    She’s beautiful. You need to shoot with the lens more open on portraits; set the iris at one stop from fully open, let the camera pick a shutter speed..
23. Xopher says:
    September 19, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    John, so now if your blog is down…(I’m laughing at my own alarmist tendencies here, just to be clear).
24. Owen says:
    September 19, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    You, Mr. Scalzi, are a good husband. :)
25. sarawr says:
    September 19, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    Such a classically pretty face!
26. Greg says:
    September 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    weird. The standard obituary format is something like

    Jane Doe dd/mm/yyyy-dd/mm/yyyy

    but typical birth announcements are

    Jane Alice Doe mm/dd/yyyy

    so my initial reaction was … “rrrrRRRRR????” a la scooby do.

    then I quickly thought better just click and find out whats going on.
27. Womyn2me says:
    September 19, 2011 at 6:09 pm

    Lovely hair. I like the way the silver is adding to the sense of movement in the front. and I do like the way her eyes sparkle at you, lucky guy.
28. Gary Willis says:
    September 19, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    John, if ever anyone asks you how you are doing, on the basis of your wife’s photo alone, you had better answer (as Dave Ramsey phrases it), “Better than I deserve.”

    ‘Nuff said.
29. JimR says:
    September 19, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    A fine woman, there, and a good man to appreciate it.

    I wish my wife was OK with me posting pictures of her on the net. I’m not exactly sure why she’s opposed, she has not an insecure bone in her body and she’s a gorgeous woman, but it’s apparently a Japanese cultural thing against strangers seeing your face. An interesting side effect of this, when people on the news are interviewed and don’t want their faces shown (a very common thing), the camera is always placed at chest level…for women and men. So busts=ok, but faces=No Go.
30. Paul S says:
    September 20, 2011 at 9:25 am

    That is a great picture! I always enjoy the pictures you post. I wish I could get my pictures to be as half as crisp as yours!
31. oh2 says:
    September 20, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    Great picture.
    Now, can we get one of you wearing lipstick as well ?
32. Tim D. says:
    September 20, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    John.
    A classy photo of a classy lady.

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