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During my late teens I spent some time working for a local pizza joint. One night a guy came in and asked me if I could give him change for a twenty. I complied and counted out the smaller bills. While I was counting the dough, he asked me if I could give him a couple of fives in place of the ten. All the time he kept up a lively banter. When I'd finished the transaction, he pulled out another twenty and said he forgot he had to pay some money to a friend and would appreciate change for that one too. I sighed and counted out the bills. All the while he kept up the cheerful conversation and once again he asked me to break down one of the tens. Then he asked me to give him a few bucks worth of quarters for the cigarette machine and that was it.
The next morning the manager of the store informed me that I was twenty bucks short when the receipts were tallied up. I knew immediately that I'd been had. To this day I'm not sure how the guy conned me, but con me he did.
Seeing the shady looking guy above at one of counters at the Ferry Building brought back some serious memories.
San Francisco, CA
VUELTA CICLISTA A ESPAÑA 2009: 7ª Etapa: Contrarreloj Valencia.
Algo que pretendÃa ser un barrido... de un ciclista, que una vez más, no se de quién se trata.
Gracias a Jobro: se trata de Matteo Tosatto
After a 6 month layoff my confidence is very low (its to be expected). I wanted to drop off some ill-fitting clothes at a street side charity depot and plucked up the courage to do this while dressed. It was really just 10 minutes in the car (you feel so safe in the car) there and back and I stopped on the way home to get a picture. Sorry I look a bit tense and awkward probably because I am.
Making some quick block books to fil the shelves. My thinking is the buyer can toss these out as they fill the shelves with individual books.
I hadn't took the pen out for a while so i figured i would switch it up and take out the epl-1 for a quick session :-) Was a fun, last minute and random shoot that went very well except for the fact that i got home and realized i was shooting in jpeg the whole time! lol Oh well!
Zuiko 35-100mm f2
Olympus epl-1
Shot @ 90mm (180mm equivalent )
f2
Almost on the spur of the moment, I decided to join friends yesterday afternoon for a birding walk. The weather was so perfect, especially compared to the two consecutive snowstorms we had on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, that damaged thousands of trees in the city! After a quick look for birds along the avenue of trees near Fish Creek Provincial Park headquarters, we drove down to the Boat Launch area and from there we walked south along the Bow River. The Ospreys were flying near the river ad we saw one of them carrying a fish to take back to their nest. We saw 30 bird species, but nothing close enough for photos. After an enjoyable walk, a few of us called in at Tim Horton's for coffee and a snack.
From there, I called in at a different part of the park and watched a family of Beavers swimming in their pond. While I was waiting, hoping that they might appear, so many American Robins flew from branch to branch in the nearby trees and bushes, sometimes landing, like this colourful male, on the rocks at the edge of the pond. I always feel that Robins are so much taken for granted. Eventually, after a long wait, the Beaver's appeared - this adult, who crossed the path where I was standing, took me off guard, as I had my camera well zoomed. This huge animal walked faster than I was expecting, so it's not the greatest photo. Better than almost all my photos taken of them yesterday, though, as the light was quickly fading and the pond area was too dark. Hope your photos came out much better than mine, Phil! Such a treat to watch this family, especially the young ones. We were amazed, at one moment, when an old wooden pallet started moving in the pond and blocked a small passageway between the banks. One Beaver was pulling this discarded structure all on its own. I wonder if they had originally found it washed up nearby, after the Alberta Flood of the Century last year (2013).
I thought saints were born saints, I looked in the dirt and found wisdom is learnt through a costly process of success and failure.
139 photos of the sunset merged into one image. The clouds were moving a little faster than I'd like, making the streaks they painted in the sky a little rough. I prefer smoother streaks, which can be achieved with a shorter interval between shots, but I would have to switch to JPEG format instead of RAW, and I don't really want to do that.
I wish they would make the image writing buffer larger.
Lightning scared the heck out of me as a kid but as I grew older it became a source of fascination. A desire to capture one of the most powerful events in this world was an original driving force behind taking up photography.
Over the last few summers I've waited night after night for a storm to roll through so I could get those long exposures clicking away to capture its splendor. This year things are a bit different. Adding a 10 stop ND to my kit allows me to do the same thing in broad daylight. The question still remained, would a flash of lightning be bright enough to show up through the nearly black glass? Well this shot proves the answer to be a resounding YES!!!
Quick category sort is complete. Will fine sort what needs fully sorted for next month and put the rest to the side and sort that out if there is time, other wise it will be put on hold for a bit.
Pulpit Pond, continued.
For details, view large.
For fun, rotate the screen 90 degrees clockwise. :-)
"Oh, I can't believe it," I said as we pulled into the driveway, "the sun is almost down, and I still don't have a photo for the day."
"Look!" she said. "The horses are out! Quick you grab your camera, and I'll get the carrots!"
Uploaded on 08-23-2018
Fresno, CA - May 2009
Many of our old photos from around this time on Flickr were shown mostly in medium sizes and they don't expand to full size. Did Flickr have full screen shots back then? Probably, not. Because of that I may have to revisit for posting them again.
A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic locomotive crew takes a quick break atop Cumbres Pass after helping the daily passenger train climb the four percent grade. In a few minutes, the crew will cut off their helper locomotive, turn on the wye, and head back for Chama.
Murky Narcissism
Quick and rough abstracted and deformed self. After "the murk".
Acrylic
Canvas
50 x 40 cm
A short lived pennzoil quick lube sits in a pasture, open for a short time and still standing showing its original build quality. It sits far enough from the road that its not been either vandalized or tagged.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to green, orange and a shot of natural white to the front to fill in the shadows. Moon glow visible in the top of the frame.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!