Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Landscape drama shot. With ducks.
Flower drama shot. It’s all in the color.
Unphotographed drama: some kind of movie shoot…guess it could have been an ad shoot or music video…we didn’t get close enough to tell.
Sunday, 12 November 2023
Murky day, which is fine: we need the rain…it also means the leaves are coming down down down.
Sunday, 15 October 2023
We pushed south from get-up in central Indiana, keeping an eye on the leaf colors. This is northern Kentucky. It’s got some elevation, and I think that’s why the color has developed this far.
This is also a bit elevated, and definitely farther south, in central Tennessee. I think the overcast has heightened the colors somehow in the color processing. Call it even a bit fake.
Something for you to ponder, those photo algorithms. I think the new 15 camera’s overly push the saturation, compared to standing there, at least with my eyeballs. The second photo was standing there; the first was through the windshield, then color corrected for the window tint. Overall, it sounds like I stepped into a visual morass. (tee hee)
I’ll have to give you the leaf-color report on ATL in the coming days. We were so busy dodging the usual urban traffic snarls, bumped up by Pride weekend activities, that I didn’t adequately take in my non-traffic environment.
Saturday, 14 October 2023
Sunrise-orange across the Grand Marais breakwater and Lake Superior.
Fall color along US2, southern side of the peninsula, out from under the cloud bank.
Lake Michigan at Brevort, still in the Upper Peninsula. Never come down to the lake here before.
Lake Michigan at Cross Village, in the northern Lower Peninsula. More wind than the north shore at Brevet.
Tunnel of Trees, as the state highway going south of Cross Village is known. The right-of-way is narrower than standard, not two lanes wide, and thus no center line. We followed about ten fancy, late-model Corvettes who were traveling together. We left the park at Cross Village right behind them, and followed them into Harbor Springs. [If you’re looking at a map, this’ll make sense.] We got a chance to analyze tight GM cornering from the rear.
One more shot of the fall color in the northwestern Lower Peninsula, greener than in the UP.
That visually sums the prettiest pretties of the day.
Friday, 13 October 2023
Here’s the Mother Lake. Such a dramatic and energizing place to visit, to stop and watch and breathe and listen.
See, you’re already feeling its effects.
This stretch of the North Country Trail is east of the mouth of Hurricane River (flowing into Lake Superior, of course). There’s plenty of fall color and plenty of green. I expected more leaves to be down, although I’m very happy to see them still attached.
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Two days ago we got an impulse to go north. We left in a light rain, and this was the edge of the weather mass. All sunshine after this.
I don’t usually show license plates, but this one begged to be included here.
The new phone/camera clearly takes better shots than the old equipment.
See, just look at today’s sunset (even after downsampling for this post).
OTRA = on the road again
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
I got totally distracted from whatever lame idea I had about a topic today by trying to ID this. Pretty sure it’s an Aesculus, but I can’t figure out which one. Genus has to be close enough!
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
This spider is working the angles. Not only has it made a funnel, it put the web in a cactus to up the danger-danger. Me—I kept my distance, and just accumulated digits from afar.
Saturday, 30 September 2023
Before the day’s Main Event, we took a wander to see the most prominent local topographic situation—the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Here on the south/west bank, there are few driving access points because it’s a gigantic floodplain, very flat and marshy until it was drained. Here’s the Mississippi just below the confluence.
And here’s the Missouri just above the confluence. We had (and you have) to imagine the roily meeting of the flows from the two huge drainages.
Here’s the focal point for the Main Event religious rites. We all enjoyed the tone the Lady Rabbi took combining the necessary Hebrew with English explanations. Lovely and moving. One point she made was that we change and marriages change and we find ways to do that changing together—I thought that was wise and rarely mentioned.
After the ceremony we adjourned upstairs for cocktails and tasty appetizers, and the sunset gave us all a lovely glow. Soon, we went downstairs for a fabulous sit-down dinner. Then the third band, the dance band, got going, and so did the crowd. The most unusual and best thought-out-gift was, tadah, flip-flops for those who wanted to shed their fancy shoes and really dance. Boy, did we dance. I think the Proud Mary lasted almost fifteen glorious minutes. Woohoo!
Fun wedding, great couple, lovely sentiments, and and and.
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Here’s my second photo with the Guru’s new phone. The wide framing is better than the first one’s zoomier perspective. That’s the moon, BTW. I will study the documentation to see if I could adjust this or that and get it to capture the shape of the bright moon properly.