Archive for the ‘Photography’ tag
Danger No Swimming
Coast Guard is comin’ to getcha!
(slight photoshop work)
Two photos stitched together so that the sign and the boat are both in focus. Nothing spectacular, just a reminder that summer is approaching rapidly.
Usually not a good sign to receive a letter from the FDIC
My bank got eated!
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Helga Viking
Film: Float
Flash: Off
Saving account, I think it held something like $400. Guess my retirement plan is shot now. According to the letter, if I don’t take action in the next month, they will just send me a check for the full amount. Whoo hoo. Birthday is coming up, maybe I’ll spend it on an iPad.
Also, especially in the enlargement of this photo, my fingers look like elephant legs. I guess I’m not a young man anymore.
Drink it before the ice melts
My favorite drinking game.
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Pistil
Flash: Off
If I’m motivated, can drink three drinks with the same ice cubes (i.e., before they melt). Personally, love good whiskey-with-an-E best when the ice has melted maybe 10%. Enough cold water to blend, but not too much to dilute it.
Anyway, I think it’s time for me to pour today’s cocktail, as I’m too tired to work on anything important today.
Guitar blues, iPhoney edition
messing around with the Best Camera iPhone app instead of working
from last year
Edit ∆ (delta) IL Connect Four
or whatever that says (Oil? Delta IL?). Pretty cryptic.
Kinzie Street and the stairway leading up to Orleans St.
from last spring
Dragon Skull
at least that’s what it looked like to me.
Lake Michigan
Roger’s Park, Chicago, or perhaps Evanston (border is a bit amorphous right here)
I’m sure there is an equation (Thermodynamics, perhaps?) that describes how this ice formation is created with waves, but I leave that as an exercise for you, the reader.
Intellectual Amnesia
slightly punched up in Photoshop (Velvia)
from 2008
It’s a Blue Light Special
Red Light, Blue Light, all semantics anyway
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down the street from me
Colleen and Seth – Colfax 1971
My mother and me, circa 1971 (?), Colfax, California.
Slightly retouched in Photoshop.
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This is probably my favorite photo of my mother. Something about her expression here is just perfect. She isn’t smiling, exactly, nor quizzical.
Not sure exactly the provenance of this photo: think it was taken in Colfax, California, but don’t know where exactly, nor who took it.
The 1959 VW survived several more cross-country trips past this photo, and eventually became reused as the motor for a sawmill in Frostpocket1. Blue in this photo, later painted school bus yellow.
Footnotes:- if memory serves [↩]
Streets slick with regret
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Float
Flash: Off
more photos from Milwaukee
The Things We Didn’t Do
Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward, mild snow.
more from Sunday’s sojourn to Milwaukee.
Alice in Wonderland with Shrooms
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass” (Lewis Carroll)
a clearer photo of the billboard that peeks at me through my office window
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I probably will see this movie, but maybe not in the theatre. Sometimes my agoraphobia1 is stronger than my desire to see films on large projection screens.
DVDs come out pretty soon these days
Footnotes:- or whatever, agoraphobia is probably a little strong [↩]
Temple for lease
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Pistil
Flash: Off
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spent a few hours in Milwaukee on Sunday. Mostly doing work related things, but squeezed in a photo-stroll for about an hour right at dusk.
I really like Milwaukee for some reason, probably because at least from an outsider’s perspective, Milwaukee still has so many buildings left from the industrial age. Most of these structures no longer exist in Chicago, especially downtown.
Merchandise Mart Sonnet 2628
yet another shot of the Merchandise Mart at night
a little noisier1 than I would like, but…
Footnotes:- ie, digital noise from low light [↩]
Alien Hoopsters 6 on 6
Sculpture found somewhere near Northwestern Hospital (aka Chicago Memorial, if you’ve ever seen the movie, The Fugitive). Flipped around in Photoshop because they wanted to play full court.
Note: aliens use multiple balls/goals, so their game is faster moving than the NBA. Sort of like 3-D chess as played on Star Trek.
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from my archives, circa 2005
