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I left Philly at 5am this morning on about two hours of sleep and post-finals exhaustion.
I'm back home now where there is snow on the ground and all I plan on doing is sleeping for a very long time.
I am going away for work for 10 days. This'll be the first time I have spent any time away from him and am not at all sure how I will cope. I am going to Newport RI for a conference and then a quick stop to see friends in Charlotte NC. They said I should bring my air conditioner.
Won't be able to Flickr much I don't think (horrors!) so forgive me for not commenting for a bit.
This is photoshopped, I was playing with the contrast of another picture, and decided that I liked this portion of it this way. This rainbow we saw after losing our girls in the middle of nowhere, and it brought us a little hope, albeit slightly unfounded, that they were not dead.
Today's day: Whiteman Vega to Greenwood Canyon, 12 miles
Wandering back to the car today, it was lovely and bright but I spotted the shade that these concrete walls were casting into the delivery yard and thought I'd try and make something from the geometry.
I found it quite hard getting a perfectly levelled panorama with the NEX5 freehand so I may come back here with a tripod and see how I get on.
Fairly pleased with how the tones have worked out though, the NEX really does prefer being outside and seems to give more pleasing results when you can find natural light to feed the sensor.
I'm tempted to try this shot again at some point, but time it with a person walking across the opening at the end of the tunnel to give a focal point.
203 West Morris Avenue
Construction Date: 1922
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original condition: This is a stuccoed transitional bungalow. It is capped by a medium pitched roof with intersecting gables. The side-facing gable has a hipped end and extends to form a half porch over the front entrance. The porch is supported by two massive square stuccoed pillars. The fenestration in the facade consists of a prominent stationary window with a large single pane flanked by two smaller sections with multi-paned divisions above a single pane. There is an exterior chimney to one side of the house. The peak of the front facing gable has vertical venting.
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The brown 'flow' just left of center in this photo is a massive landslide that occurred high up in the Fairweather Mountain Range. Scientists from the US Geological Survey are calling this event one of the biggest landslides in the world in recent history, and perhaps the largest one ever recorded in Alaska. The slide was so large that it was detected by seismic monitoring equipment. I was able to fly over it several weeks later when the slide was still raw and exposed. This particular slide generated a signal equivalent to a 2.5 magnitude earthquake.