Just playing. Two photos, nothing fancy.
Canon PowerShot G10, two frames
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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Two Seats, No Waiting
It’s winter here in Georgia. This means it is 50 degrees outside, sunny, deep blue skies with some wispy clouds. It also means all the wrought iron dining areas that are too hot to use in the summer are abandoned again.
Canon PowerShot G10, 8.1 mm, ISO 80, 1/1600, f/3.2
Road Signs
One of the things I miss most about my journalism days is time on the road. Just the act of moving from one story location to another was interesting to me, seeing new things, watching how my community was evolving.
It’s one of the things I love about road rallies as well – seeing new stuff, finding a surprise around the corner or over the crest. Sunday mornings, early, while the family sleeps and wakes, I’ve decided to start logging some miles. My wife laughs at me when I say I want to, “go look at some roads.” (My older friends just nod knowingly, and then look away.)
Yesterday I put some time in behind the wheel, wandering some interesting squiggles on my map. The early course was a bit disappointing, to be honest. But then it started to improve a bit and, eventually, I found a nice complex of roads over in Oglethorpe County near some quarries. Which even lead to a little surprise, making the day worthwhile …
Canon PowerShot G10, 6.1 mm, ISO 80, 1/1600, f/2.8
Canon PowerShot G10, 6.1 mm, ISO 80, 1/1000, f/5.0
Canon PowerShot G10, 21.5 mm, ISO 80, 1/800, f/5.0
Canon PowerShot G10, 6.1 mm, ISO 80, 1/640, f/5.0
Canon PowerShot G10, 30.5 mm, ISO 200, 1/250, f/5.0
I have no idea what the judging is based on, but if I ever decide to go into quarrying it’ll have to be at a place that’s been named quarry of the month at least once.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27
- Best Christmas Song Ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg #
- Grandma's Christmas Cake – a 40+ year tradition lives on. http://yfrog.com/3gjchqj #
Pattern of Life
The end of the semester has come. Grading is done, the office closed up for a few weeks. Went to the college’s convocation ceremony to say farewell to “my kids.” (Though several snuck off before I had a chance to wish them well, but the few I got to see were worth the effort.)
I’m also nearing the end of my time with Kodak’s Zi8 (review to be posted over on the Visual Journalism site sometime this week). And I have to say it is almost – almost – everything I had hoped for. It has some faults, but I’m hoping they’ll get corrected in the next generation camera.
So two more graphic frames, both from outside of Hodgson Hall before our event. My life has been a search for patterns, it seems. At least visually. For my students, the pattern of their life is about to change tremendously. And that, in the parlance of my era and original locale, is a wicked awesome thing.
Kodak Zi8, 6.3 mm, ISO 50, 1/4096, f/2.8
Kodak Zi8, 6.3 mm, ISO 50, 1/362, f/2.8
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20
- If you're proposing a text book for college students, you damned well better know what Ramen noodles are and not call them "roman noodles." #
- Nah, don't bother to read the story before you write the headline … http://yfrog.com/3nmpkp #
- Fall semester 2009? Done. #
- My wife has just been named the "most confessional blogger" by babble.com. Wonder what her penance will be … #
- Hrmpf … FireWire CF card reader seems to be giving up the ghost (only being recognized one out of four times). Recommendations? #
Focus Points
No story here, a little technical exercise mixed with some (possible, though unlikely) art. Essentially the same photo (shot across my car, through the passenger side window, during the rain on Friday) but with two different focus points. The first is on the wall, the second is pulled back to the window.
Canon PowerShot G10, 30.5 mm, ISO 200, 1/25, f/4.5
Canon PowerShot G10, 30.5 mm, ISO 200, 1/25, f/4.5