I’m tapping this out on my telephone, so it will have to be brief. We just left Putney VT, and are heading west along a newly prescribed route – thank you Emily – which will take us farther South, so as to avoid the nasty weather sweeping down from Lake Erie. This won’t be the [...]
This is what -30F looks like…from the inside. I’m packing at the moment, so that’s about all the verbiage I’ll throw in for today’s POTD. Boston tomorrow, and then, New Hampshire!
I woke up this morning to discover a worrisome quantity of ice INSIDE my bedroom window (pictured above) and a forecast which promised that Minneapolis “will feel like -30F all day!”. At first, this prompted what I assume is the normal human reaction to -30 degree weather: I opted to stay in bed. When I [...]
Becca spent some time on the OTHER side of the camera this afternoon. :-) PS. To those of you viewing this site in Internet Explorer, I apologize; it must look horrible. As soon as I can get my hands on a PC to test it out on, fixes will be made. Good night! (Update: Becca [...]
Needless to say, my first forays in to manual focus tricks have not been enormously successful, but the effect is nice. This is in the car, waiting for traffic unlock. The only thing that really ‘worked’ was to focus on the windshield, and after the first few winter snows, there’s actually some interesting texture built [...]
Ninety percent of the photos displayed on this website have been taken within a two block radius of my walk to the coffee shop (the shot above is just a block or so east of 2nd Moon). This serious lack of adventuring has a lot to do with the cold, but there is also something [...]
After using up all of my spare photo-of-the-day photos on last night’s _Quarter Past_ update, I woke up this morning prepared to take a fresh batch on my walk to morning coffee. Had I checked out weather.com (and discovered that it “it feels like -6°F out there”) things might have gone differently. Today’s photo might [...]
I don’t think humans are capable of the frenzied, orgasmic delight a puppy must feel during its Afternoon Walk. After a morning spent sun-bathing and licking himself and/or various bits of furniture, Finn is practically vibrating with anticipation by the time we move purposefully towards a mitten or boot. One hour of pure, unrestrained freedom! [...]
The Cave is small and windowless. I suppose you could call it an office, but if I were selling the place, I would hasten to add that it also functions perfectly well as a walk-in closet or possibly – in the event of a citizen arrest – a snug little prison cell. You rarely see [...]
Briefly: I discovered the _multiple exposure_ feature on this crazy little toy yesterday, and suddenly Becca’s normally heroic patience was forced to achieve new heights: now I want her to move between frames. All this, and she’s trying to write three papers, study for three tests _and_ occasionally love the dog (whose feelings are seriously [...]
The sun set immediately after lunch yesterday. The above photo – a lamp set against a window – was taken at 3pm. Not knowing all that much about astronomy, I just assumed the apocalypse had come and was manifesting itself in a rather benign way; but no! Further investigation reveals that these celestial mood swings [...]
It would be fair to say that a healthy portion of my relationship with Becca revolves around hard-nosed, utterly trivial, to-the-death competition. This has manifested itself in various ways across the years, (including a cross country trip that I’m sure beat several world records) but most recently it’s been Othello. (otherwise known as “Reversi”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversi ) [...]
And now, *a daily photo*! “Too much” is a dramatic understatement. The amount of information I put up each day about my Minnesotan goings-on has reached a whole new level of absurdity. Thankfully, there are 3 people who spend any amount of time around here, so why not? This whole Photo of the day thing [...]
Today, at approximately 10:15am, the mailman (or UPS guy or FedEx grunt or whoever it was that leaves treats on doorsteps at this time of year) delivered my BRAND NEW CAMERA. Briefly: it rocks, and features technology hereto unused by your humble photographer: a lens. It will take me a while to get used to [...]