| Rainy Day Rose |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|12:19 am] |
Late season rose on a breezy, cold, rainy December day.
Strobist: Sigma 500 Super through a Morris softbox at camera right,1/2 power.
Lens note: Shot with a Canon 70-200L f/4 on a 1.4x Sigma Teleconverter as part of a close in follow focus test. The flower was waving a bit in the breeze. |
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| Tasty |
[Dec. 5th, 2009|07:21 pm] |
I'm eating a tasty shrimp dinner I cooked myself. The cats are scratching at the door, desperate for the seafood they can smell but not see.
Hah! It's all mine! |
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| Grinnell Point Sunrise |
[Dec. 3rd, 2009|11:49 pm] |
Grinnell Point, bathed in the glow of the rising sun, is reflected in Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park. |
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| Bridge Over Pea Creek |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|10:18 pm] |
The bridge over Pea Creek in the Eno River State Park in Durham, North Carolina. |
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| Parry |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|01:00 am] |
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| Georgia, You Suck |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|12:11 am] |
Had a pleasant Thanksgiving with my folks. At least, until the drive home Saturday.
The drive was going great, until we got into Georgia, and got to experience some of their gracious hospitality.
Suck #1: We lost an hour due to accidents, disappearing lanes and just plain mysterious slow downs in the 29-mile-long construction zone on I-95 that starts just below Brunswick.
A 29-mile-long construction zone. 29 miles of closed shoulders on both sides, dangerously narrow lanes and suicidal entrance ramps. 29 miles of high tension and high frustration driving. And at least 20 of those 29 miles of heightened danger were due solely to the laziness of the Georgia DOT.
Sorry, there's no way the State of Georgia can be working simultaneously on 29 miles of road. If they could, this project would have been done a year ago. And, sure enough, as you drive this nightmare, you see whole sections are done, usually, in between sections that aren't. Oh, you also see whole sections they haven't even started on yet. And a lot of mysteriously closed shoulders, apparently to protect the grass, which has gotten a bad case of the vapors, or something.
But, you know, it was easier to just put down 29 miles of barriers and forget about them for several years, than it would be to go through every several months and adjust things to improve motorist safety.
Cause everybody on I-95 is just a damn carpetbagger, after all.
Georgia, you suck.
Suck #2: Bathrooms? If y'all want bathrooms, you need to go to someplace fancy ... like South Carolina.
I-95 runs for more than 100 miles through Georgia. There are exactly 2 rest areas - the Welcome Station on the southbound side for those entering from South Carolina, and the Welcome Station on the northbound side for those entering from Florida. If you miss the Welcome Station, or you start your coffee between the Welcome Station and the 29-miles-of-we-endanger-you-with-our-laziness, you're going to need to hold it until you see the next state line.
Unless you can find a shoulder that's open, in which case you can water Georgia's natural landscape.
Not surprisingly, the South Carolina Welcome Station was flooded with holiday drivers doing "Gotta Hold It Just a Little Longer" jig.
Y'all come back now, hear?
Georgia, you suck more. |
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| Happy Thanksgiving! |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|02:02 am] |
Make no mistake - I will be happy to kick 2009 out the door.
But, despite everything - I won't bore you with the list - I still have much to be thankful for.
Our friends, who gave us such fantastic support when Laura had her heart attack, and who have been there for us all year. You guys have been great, and we are grateful, so very grateful for everything.
Our families, who's love and help and understanding have helped us immensely.
I'm incredibly grateful that every health emergency this year has turned out well. I'm thankful for the doctors and nurses who prevented life-threatening situations from becoming life-ending ones; whose surgical skill and quick thinking have granted me many more years with my loved ones. I am thankful that all the recoveries are going well.
Then there are the basics. I'm thankful we are both still employed - many of our friends are not, and there don't seem to be any jobs for them to find.
I'm thankful that we both have health insurance - without it our medical bills would have bankrupted us.
I'm thankful for the roof over our heads, cars that run, and heat that works. No, I'm not reaching - just realizing how very many people in this country and around the world who can't and don't take such things for granted. |
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| Fungi Friday Sampler |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|10:39 pm] |
A variety of fungi grow on an old log in the Eno River State Park in North Carolina.
For the science teachers out there. :-) |
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| Trees, Rocks and Mist |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|07:33 pm] |
A foggy morning on the Eno River in the Eno River State park in North Carolina. |
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| Old Man Tree |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|12:03 am] |
An old tree leans over the Eno River along the Pea Creek Trail in the Eno River State Park in North Carolina.
This is my first attempt at photo-stitching to achieve semi-panoramic effects. |
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| Tree Frame |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|11:37 pm] |
Tree trunks frame one of their fallen bretheren along the Eno River in Eno River State Park in Durham, North Carolina. |
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| Colorful Foggy Morning |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|12:45 am] |
Fog shrouds the Eno River in the eponymous state park in North Carolina, just before sunrise on a November day.
Yes, this is a color HDR. :-) |
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| The Girl in the Trenchcoat |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|08:12 pm] |
Sigma EF DG 530 Super through a Lumiquest Softbox on a Joby Gorillapod on the ground in front of the model, firing up. Sigma DG 500 Super clamped to background stand, behind model and to camera right, through a Honl 8" snoot. |
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| More Literate Danger |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|08:45 pm] |
Strobist: Sigma EF DG 5500 Super through a Lumiquest softbox (really small) camera right, almost parallel to the model picking up the head and shoulders.
Another DG 500 Super camera right, behind the the model (aka, my wife), attached to the background support pole with a Joby Gorillapod, with a Honl snoot to help separate her from the background (and light the chair, apparently).
DG 530 Super through a Softlighter II (circular softbox) camera left, to fill in the details about 1 to 1.5 stops below the main.
Another in the dangerous editor series. |
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