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Learning to see… Curves

One of the unexpected benefits I’ve found in photography has been the odd “seeing the world through a lens” affect. It can surface anywhere: driving down a suburban avenue in heavy traffic, I’ll notice the plantings beneath the (often stunted) trees in the median and mentally compose an angle to capture them; […]

Fighting the gag reflex (with my camera)

My apologies for having dropped off-line without a word.
The pandering, back-biting, and spin in the Democratic primary has become so bad, though, that I really can’t even read about it anymore without fighting a gag reflect — much less write about it.
Rather than adding to the stupidity online, I decided to pick my camera back […]

“No Professional Photography Equipment”

Polimom and Adorable Child went to watch the Aeros play this afternoon at the Toyota Center in Houston.
You’ll just have to take my word for it, though. I can’t show you any fun shots, cuz they wouldn’t let my camera in the door.
This is what their site says:
Professional cameras are prohibited at all events […]

Rice, ghosts, and icons

Yesterday, I got all caught up in a global economy story.
Evidently, while Americans are yelping about $3/gallon gasoline, there have been food riots in places as varied as Uzbekistan or Mexico, and rice farmers have taken to guarding their fields in Vietnam.
Like all supply and demand equations, there will be winners and losers. […]

Friday tidbits

It’s Friday, the weather is supposed to be good (they’re actually saying “balmy” — a pretty funny term on the muggy Gulf Coast), and yesterday’s posts sucked my brain dry. So I’m loading up the camera gear and heading out to… somewhere.
Since I’m utterly disinclined to opine on much of anything, I’ll share […]