An old (film) dog's odyssey to learn new (digital) tricks



Gone heart-shaped

I’ve discovered that bins of beads can make for some interesting (and easy to find!) photo opportunities. Here’s a shot I took a while back in a trinket store in Albuquerque, New Mexico:

I wish the beads were a bit shinier, but didn’t think the store owner would be too wild about me hanging [...]

Promising

Typical Colorado — a foot of snow one day, sunny and clear the next…

Feline

When I was out for a quick lunchtime walk at work, I saw this swath of cattails by the side of the road…

Floating

I ran across this nice little scene last weekend:

If there’s any moral to this story, it’s that beauty can be found when and where you least expect it. In this case, I found it in a puddle in our yard as the last storm’s snowfall melted. This corner is just dried mud now, [...]

Holdout

One lingering autumn leaf hangs on through the snow…

Winter has fallen

When you live in Colorado, you get used to the idea of indecisive weather…

Dia de los muertos

I saw this in a trinket shop in Albuquerque ages ago, and have been pretty much sitting on the shot, waiting for a fitting date…

In the gates

Getting ready for steer wrestling at the stock show:

This isn’t an action shot in the least, but I like how all the cowboys are interacting. They’re all looking at the lead rider, who seems to be telling them something…
For me, this interaction *barely* overcomes the visual distraction of the yellow railings. Just barely.

Black & white & curious all over…

You might recall this “model” from a previous image…

Foucault’s ceiling

Another shot from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles; this one is the ceiling over the observatory’s Foucault pendulum…