Tag: 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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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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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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Recent Views
More photography here. A log in our building’s backyard bonfire was pushing out smoke from both ends: This wasn’t taken for Memorial Day but it might as well have been: I liked the color combination here, and not because I’m a Packers fan: This bookshelf and plant are no longer in this spot, so you’re…
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Recent Views
More photography here. One of the many things I love about fall and winter is sunrise happens later in the morning, thus allowing me to go for a run in the darkness of the morning without having to get up at WHAT o’clock. On a recent run I broke my rule about not taking pictures…
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Recent Views
More photography here. Just for fun I’ve started turning videos I take into GIFs using Giphy’s super easy GIF maker. This one was on a flight descending into Raleigh, North Carolina. The rain was streaking on the window like that for only about 10 seconds, so I’m glad I had my phone ready: The breeze…
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Technically First
This happens to me all the time: I hear about a book (or movie or album, but usually book) and find it at my library, then I read it and see mention of another book or figure, sending me off into that direction, where I find another book to read. And so on. I’ll call…