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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.
messing around with the Best Camera iPhone app instead of working
from last year
or whatever that says (Oil? Delta IL?). Pretty cryptic.
Kinzie Street and the stairway leading up to Orleans St.
from last spring
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.
slightly punched up in Photoshop (Velvia)
from 2008
Red Light, Blue Light, all semantics anyway
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down the street from me
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:Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Float
Flash: Off
more photos from Milwaukee
Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward, mild snow.
more from Sunday’s sojourn to Milwaukee.
“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: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.
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
in front of the St. Patrick’s church, no less
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I actually flubbed this photo a bit, at least from my perspective. I’m more used to using my 18-200mm lens for “street photography” than the 50mm lens I used this particular day. I think the focus was slightly off, so I used the Alien Skin Exposure 2 filter, with Kodak 25 (sharper) settings. This particular filter emulates using Kodak slide film, and subtlety sharpens the edges. In this case, the image came out pretty good, but I wish I had taken a better shot to work with. If you look at the larger view, you’ll see what I mean (maybe).
Also, the light pole “frames” are intentional. I had given myself an assignment on this particular photo-stroll; look for images that are framed by natural elements. In this case, the street lights.
In the future, I’m going to assign myself other tasks based on looking at photos I like. I’m thinking – negative space, abstractions, etc. The trick is adding a bit of theory on top of my photographic instincts. I’ve been taking photographs long enough that my eye is an extension of my camera, the goal is to challenge myself into pressing the shutter sometimes despite my finely honed instinct (which is not always correct, of course). Does that make sense?
and tourists (German, if memory serves)
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haven’t been inside in years, however.
