Popular In Chicago
From my October trip to Chicago: “Framed Spire.” This one was good enough to reach the Popular page on 500px, so that’s cool.
Play With Images
To this day I still get excited when I feed a card into the computer and begin to play with the images; it’s like painting or sculpting, getting my hands dirty. It’s a step of the process I thoroughly enjoy, however time consuming it may be.
Film, Kage stuff… It’s Friday. — laROQUE
Indeed. I like playing around with a few images, just to get the look and style down, and then going to town on the rest.
What else I’ve found helpful: not touching the photos for a while – like a month or longer. It makes editing/culling easier, because there’s no longer an emotional attachment.
Each Season
A view back from when life was a little warmer, sunnier, and colorful.
But that’s the thing about living in a place like Michigan: each season has its own beauty, and its own reason for being.
Really Winter Now
It’s really winter now. The high temperatures have been in the 15-20 F range, and the snow and ice are starting to stick around.
Nothing will grow until March. There will be nothing on the trees until April. Any sunny day is the best Michigan will look for a few months now.
Despite the bitter cold, I do enjoy getting out when it’s sunny and taking photos. The slants of light, the position of the sun – everything is different this time of year. It looks like winter.
So it was with these faded milkweed plants. The sun was setting and lighting the cotton in a wonderful way. It was one of those pull-the-car-over moments.
Even though the wind chill is about zero, and the snow is starting to blow, there’s still beauty out there.
Breakfast In Boston
It doesn’t take much to be a great breakfast spot. Good service, a constant flow of coffee cup refills, unique and/or tasty meals.
And a jar of homemade marmalade.
Pentax K1000’s Beach Day
Oh, you know. Just a Pentax K1000 hanging out on the beach.
Just about done with this roll of black and white film, finally. It’s getting to the point where I hardly remember what’s on it. But on this day, Labor Day, it was on the beach.
Franck–Hertz Experiment
The now-famous Franck–Hertz experiment elegantly supported Niels Bohr’s model of the atom, with electrons orbiting the nucleus with specific, discrete energies. Franck and Hertz were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925 for this work.
Our college science complex has some amazing stuff, and I always look for esoteric items to photograph.
This was a good one for my 7,777 photo posted to Flickr.
We’ll call this traffic report the stay-off-social-media-and-spend-time-with-your-family dip™.
I try to take a social media sabbatical each holiday. Better to enjoy and be present in the moment that looking down at my phone.
No Facebook. No Twitter. No Instagram. Just: life.
And thankfully, it looks like a lot of other people behave the same way.