Category: Photography
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Recent Views
More photography here and on my Instagram. The view of downtown Madison from a pontoon on Lake Mendota: Some good reflection action at the park by our house: You know I love a good “sunrise through the blinds” shot: You know I love cider donuts and fall stuff: Morning view from my hotel room in…
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Recent Views
More photography here and on my Instagram. Trying to take evening walks with the almost 6 month old strapped to me while the sun still allows it, so I get to enjoy views like this: Also get to enjoy views like this from the Nap Cam ?: Yet another baby view, this one from the…
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Recent Views
More photography here and on my Instagram. My primary view lately: More chubby baby: My library shares a parking lot with a church (pictured with its wacky window placements), and the lot regularly floods due to crappy drainage. It’s annoying for parking but good for cool shots: I liked the colors on the sign here…
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Black hole stun from backwater bipeds
In case you haven’t been following the news (and who can blame you?), that’s the first-ever image of a black hole: There’s plenty of writing out there on what it means, much of it going over my head, but here’s some grounding perspective from Scientific American: It is also worth noting that in the two…
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Recent Views, not-recent edition
More photography here. With a photogenic infant at home, I need to make sure my photo backup situation is solid. I decided to start using iCloud since my Dropbox is maxed out and because it so seamlessly integrates with my iPhone. Digging through my photo archive has brought back some nice memories, including photos from a…
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My son, the audiobook
Just set a picture of the Boy as the wallpaper on my phone lock screen. The idea was to see him when I use my phone, but I chuckled when I realized what that looks like in practice:
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Making Migrant Mother
You probably know of Dorothea Lange’s famous 1936 photograph “Migrant Mother” (aka Florence Owens Thompson), an icon of the Great Depression. Perhaps you don’t know, as I didn’t, just how much the photo was staged and later altered. Evan Puschak of the video series The Nerdwriter breaks down the photo’s origin, the alterations (ghost thumb!),…
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Recent Views
More photography here. And on my Instagram. Pretty cool frost patterns on my car window (I call this one “Frozen Fractals All Around”): A few shots of my building’s backyard in the snow: Scraping off the car one morning, the snow shavings fell in a pattern that encircled the car. They contrasted well with the dark…
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Paper Only! No TVs
This sign is posted in the parking lot outside my work. Why “NO TV’s”? A while ago someone left an old TV next to what they thought was a dumpster for trash but is actually a dumpster for paper recycling. But only people who had seen the TV there before it got picked up will…
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Like lightning
“Come on, Doc, it’s not science! When it happens, it just hits you. It’s like lightning.” – Marty McFly, Back to the Future Part III A couple nights before my buddy’s wedding, I was at his house with a bunch of other guys for a time of toasting, roasting, and advice-giving. One thing I shared was…