Category: photography

Focal Plane Challenge

March 1, 2007 / / 0 Comments

A while ago, Christine asked me if I wanted to take part in the Focal Plane Challenge. The rules are simple, CTRL+V CTRL+C:

  1. The contest begins March 1st.
  2. Don’t just snap a picture. That’s too easy. Select a subject. Compose the shot. Think about the meaning. Try to be a photographer.
  3. One image per day. You can take more than that if you like, but the idea is that it’s a picture a day. No more, no less.
  4. No missing days. Take a picture EVERY DAY. Even if it sucks, it’s just a photoblog.
  5. Keep your images private until April 1st. Then post them. I’ll have mine up on Flickr, and I’ll x-post them here.
  6. Enjoy it! This is supposed to be a fun challenge!

I’m not doing #5. All my photos are going up to my gallery as I take them. I’ve already posted my less-than-stellar shots of the ice on the vines on our back porch here.

The rest of the pics will be here.

In other news, I dropped Megan off at the airport this morning. She’s on her way to Idaho to visit her family, whom she hasn’t seen since October. Which means I have the next six days to live like a filthy hobo. More than usual, anyway.

Pics are Up

February 28, 2007 / / 0 Comments

Captioned pics from my trip are up here.

I’ll post a few stories once I get the time. As it is, it’s 4:20am, and even my friends on the west coast went to sleep long ago. Time for bed.

In the meantime, Mike posted a long entry containing the fragments he remembers of the night.

Photos

January 25, 2005 / / 0 Comments

One of my hobbies is amateur photography. Usually, I’ll go somewhere on foot or by bike that I think looks promising and take a few dozen pictures. I’m not particularly good… if one photo out of that two dozen turns out well, I consider the entire exercise to have been a success.

I went out walking in the park behind my apartment complex on Saturday. We’d just had an enormous snowfall, and I was hoping I’d be able to get some decent pictures out of it. I would have liked to have taken more, but my toes became numb after only twenty minutes… despite three pairs of socks.

I posted some of the best pictures to an online site called Fotki.com. It seems like a decent free site, but only because I was too lazy to search for a really good one. If anyone knows of a really good picture sharing site, let me know. This place only allows 10MB of storage space, and I already maxed that out with this album.