Monthly Archives: July 2005

Yaaayyyy Me!!!

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Had third installment of photo class today. Our assignment was to bring in photographs illustrating depth of field and motion (not together!). My motion pictures weren’t, to me, the best, but considering the heat and all last Satuday, walking up to the dam onVickery Creek was more than enough. The instructor didn’t have anything bad to say about them at least. But my photos for DOF he gave a rave for! The firt was a series of raisin boxes arranged to trail away from the foreground. I focused on a … Continue reading →

Spending Hours in Straight Lines

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When I moved into my townhouse, darn near 5 years ago, there was a stain in the dining room carpet that would not come out. Not being a huge fan of wall to wall in the dining room, I decided that one day, I’d replace it with hardwood and I put a big area rug over it. Lately, I’d come close to replacing it with laminate, but there were a couple of reasons I did not: 1) I can tell the difference with wood having grown up on oak floors; … Continue reading →

Photoclass 2

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Just a short one tonight. Second class and increasing camera envy – probably for no good reason. But this is two weeks in a row I’ve come home contemplating that next camera purchase down the road I hope. I definitely feel like my understanding is growing. I have a MUCH more solid feeling for metering, aperture, and shutter speed now. The comprehension of these before was to varying degrees very high level and without a clear understanding of what the consequences and expectations were for what I was choosing. Hopefully … Continue reading →

James Doohan – RIP

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I have never been a celebrity stalker, but there are still ones I hold in awe. James Doohan was one. Some of my earliest memories of TV are watching re-runs of the original Star Trek. A few years ago, “Scotty” (as I will always remember him) attended DragonCon. It was his last appearance in Atlanta, and probably among his last appearances in general. He was scheduled to come back to Atlanta a year later for what was advertised as the last appearance here, but it never happened. Illness called off … Continue reading →

First Photo Class

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Had my first photo class this evening. A definite learning experience – I can already tell that it’s going to be well worth the cost. The time leading up to the actual start of the class was a little intimidating. With only a couple of exceptions, the people in the class had cameras far beyond my Olympus C-5050 – i.e. full tilt Digital SLR’s that cost in the direction of $1k if not a good deal beyond that. I was beginning to wonder if I had totally found myself in … Continue reading →

London Underground Bombing

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Should have left for work already, instead I’ve been watching the news out of London. Unreal… Much as our own 911 terrorist attacks a few years back, I can’t imagine the minds of people who feel something is accomplished by lashing out at the common citizenry of a country. I just don’t believe that anything can justify this. The people who they’ve interviewed from the trains affected by the bombing… I can only imagine the terror. I’ve been on the London Underground during the morning rush, and I’ve been at … Continue reading →

The Future Is Now

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It’s funny, I work in tech – not out of choice but some perverse destiny. I even spent a year plus of college taking programming classes because everyone thought that’s what I should do with my life – before I realized that programming, which I was competent at, bored me. I changed majors, for the last time in my college career, to Sociology – because it had at that point in my life been one of the few classes that actually engaged my brain a bit. Flash forward a decade … Continue reading →

Preserving The Past

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Have spent the long holiday weekend enjoying time away from the office, but spending the proceeds! Over the course of the weekend, got a TV tuner card, a new 200 gig hard drive, and a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse. The latter two overlap somewhat, as I got a wireless keyboard which includes a built in mouse. Fine when I only want to do a click or two, but I wasn’t convinced I could totally do without a more traditional mouse. I finally got everything hooked up this morning … Continue reading →

Eureka!

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Last night I had a small and perhaps brief break-through with Leo. My formerly stray kitten is still very timid around me. Around other cats, fine, but around people, shy and scared. I’ve been doing everything I can to not do anything sudden around him as I try to win him over. Last night, he was up on my grandmother’s dresser in the guest room/office. In a perverse way, I decided instead of yelling to get him off, I’d just shower him with attention and he’d scamper away. He slipped … Continue reading →