Friday, 21 February 2014
From our Seattle trip last month (Chihuly ceiling).
Just didn’t sleep quite right last night. Got enough sleep, ultimately, I’d say. Yet, I never quite got to an everyday equilibrium. Still, it was better (as the ancient joke goes) than the alternative!
And I kinda dragged my tail all day. Yawn.
Sunday, 9 February 2014
No Colonel in the conservatory*, just masses of eye-catching orchids, in the new winter display.
* At the ABG—Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Friday, 7 February 2014
Today, the magical Amazon Prime brought us an assortment of goodies…. Two electrical doodads I think means there may be a timer on the downstairs bath fan at some point. A floor pad that means I must now bulldoze my way through a flinging project in my office to install my new standup desk—with a well-padded floor mat. A book for book club; I’m rather a Luddite about my book purchases—fiction deserves to be passed around…so trees die for me (sorry; I’m a PDF fan for other reading material). And a lens dealie. Something I’m told creates an effect (or effects) that are not exactly to be duplicated in Photoshop. Hence, the presentation of the Brussels sprouts.
Title to be said laughing…. And, no relation to the lens. Or anything else from Amazon.
Sunday, 19 January 2014
I think I like Chihuly’s glass pieces best set in nature. I had thought the opposite until today, when we visited the museum here in SEA. I did like the complex presentations with multiple pieces—making their own garden, essentially, and single well-lit pieces, too.
Well, maybe I should conclude that glass, simply, can be fascinating….
Friday, 1 November 2013
The new phone comes with a slo-mo video setting that some are raving about, but I haven’t tried yet.
I’m still messing with the less-fancy options.
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Back in the big city, and doing big city activities, like spending money on a new cell phone…just for me…with the number that used to be our shared number. The Guru hasn’t decided what number he’s going to use, so is temporarily cellphone-free.
I’ve downloaded a few free apps, and I took the 5s camera for a walk to get a few shots to analyze. I like the first one for demonstrating the capabilities of this seriously upgraded camera.
And I like this odd composition…as a street-inflected juxtaposition of the discards of a tree and a pedestrian.
Sunday, 27 October 2013
A visual representation of the changing demographics of rural America…this is what mechanization has wrought.
Sunday, 13 October 2013
No filters; this is just how the Canon captured the moment.
Day in and day out, light changes are constant. (Duh.)
The sun lingered for maybe an hour this morning, and then the clouds arrived.
Against the odds, while the water transformed into coffee, I ran down to the lake and grabbed some super-light shots before the brightness faded.
Friday, 27 September 2013
The Fates have finally granted the Guru the permissions to move this website, along with the rest of the JCB stable, to a new server. Here’s hoping this takes care of the Problems.
Friday, 13 September 2013
I oriented this at an assortment of angles of micro-difference from this. And this, I decided, was the money shot.
Yeah, without the money.