Archive for September, 2007
A few days ago the sky looked really cool because the moon was surrounded by clouds that it was lighting up. I wanted to get a good photo of it, but there was too much difference in the brightness of the moon and that of the clouds. The longer exposure time needed to get the [...]
“Sailing” – Oil – 20″x16″ This a sailboat making its way through the fog as the photographer snaps a picture (and captures a bit of lens flare). It’s not based on a real photo.
Hiding amongst my spam this morning I noticed a message from “Isiah” with the subject: Do you have 10 inches? You can enlarge by +4 inches. I wondered if having ten inches was a requirement to obtain the additional four? Ten seems like a nice round number, but fourteen seems a little overboard to me. [...]
I went out taking photos again last night. I still need to look through them all, but this one stood out the most to me. The tungsten light gives it a very “industrial” feel to me, which is partly contrasted by the sleek design of the MR2.
In yesterday’s post, I briefly mentioned the inaccuracies of weather predictions. NWS expected a high of 74 and Weather.com was going for 78. My guess based on a glance out the window was a lower 72 degrees. Both sites are reporting that the high yesterday was only 69 degrees, making my guess better than their [...]
