From my backpacking trip up Wet Beaver Creek this weekend:
3 exposure hdr, using a wet rock as my tripod. Taken about 20 minutes into dawn, with the ND filter turned on in the G9.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Friday Fun
- Microsoft admits that Vista was a practical joke. (via)
- An old dog singin’ the blues:
(via)
- A bike lane that travels with you. Definitely a good idea for the night riders (not Knight Riders) in Prescott.
(via)
Have a great friday everybody!!
Pic of the day
A 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air seen downtown:
As DaNece and I meandered around this car taking pictures a courthouse employee who was on a smoke break came over and started talking to us about the old Chevys. Bobby told us about how he used to have a later 50s model, and how if he could sell his current car he would buy another old Chevy in a heartbeat. We chatted about the ever increasing price of well maintained vintage cars, the decreasing number of participants at the local car shows, and about how he sometimes got to work events on the square; essentially getting paid to have a great time downtown.
A very neat car, and a very neat guy.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Some geekiness
Star Wars, as told by somebody who has only seen bits and pieces:
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.
(via)
Seriously sweet Mario Brothers T-shirt. Yoshi is a badass dinosaur about to eat some goombas, Mario is hitting up the fireballs onto some seriously mal-adjusted turtles, and Luigi is kicking some biting pipe vine booty:
(via)
The Cadillac WTF. Concept car by Cadillac that runs off of nuclear energy, and has 24 tires.
(via)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Random Lifey Bits
Some random bits from life lately:
- The holidays are over, and life can begin to resume as normal. Which means taking our cookie-addicted asses back to the gym. :)
- Rundown of the movies we’ve watched lately:
- The New World – totally sucked
- The Spirit – meh. I was hoping for sin city, and got something else. D liked it though.
- Seven Pounds – Wow! Great flick. My stony demeanor was nearly brought to tears.
- The day the earth stood still – I felt like I got sucked into watching a 2 hour long Green Peace commercial. It wasn’t bad… but it wasn’t great.
- Righteous Kill – Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro together again? What could be better? Well, it was like Heat, but without the awesome.
- We started attending a photography class last weekend. It’s an eight or nine week program that meets on saturdays out in Chino, and seems like it will be a lot of fun.
- I forgot how good the Iron Springs Cafe was until me and Chris went there Friday. Southern fried tuna with jalapeño gravy is SOOOOOO freakin’ tasty!
- We went to Esoji for dinner on Saturday. I only had one sushi course, and I was still amazed!! Every thing that comes out of their kitchen is simply delicious.
- There is a blogger get together this sunday at Casa Sanchez around 2:00pm. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make it, but I am sincerely hoping. I will be out camping with friends Saturday night, and will have to contend with them to get back in time.
So there you have it. The life of an IT guy. :)
Pic of the day
Even though I know nothing about them, I’m a sucker for hotrods. So when I saw this little Ford downtown yesterday, I couldn’t help but snap a pic or two:
and a bonus shot of the engine:
Monday, January 12, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
The French have great TV shows
An example of the greatness is here.
Marvel at the amazing…. balance… of all these women. Yeah, that’s what this particular game show challenge is all about. “Balance”:
(via)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Pic of the day
Another old truck HDR. This time an old Ford tow truck:
Pretty need to see these old gears.
3 exposure handheld.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
OMG, so funny!
The new Macbook, as only the Onion News Network could:
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
(via)
*EDIT* - changed to link instead of embedding because of auto-play driving me nuts.Pic of the day
The menu board holder at a local italian eatery:
He used to have a more rotund brother in front of Belvedere's (and later N'awlins), but the brother has been MIA for a few months now.
3 Exposure Handheld HDR.
A trip to Phoenix
DaNece needed to drop of some late christmas presents to her mom in Phoenix, so we decided to do a bit of traipsing around the downtown area before heading home.
Of course there were skyscrapers aplenty down there:
But we were more interested in checking out the historic part of downtown, which included the old county courthouse/city hall:
It also included meandering by the 'new' city hall, which has a nice water feature:
And a rockin' sunburst (complete with reflection):
But I think my favorite part was seeing the old Orpheum theatre, right as the daylight started to fade and the lights turned on:
Check out those sweet lights!:
Not the mention the awesome sculpted faces on the side of the building (happy or sad?):
And this little statue, who became the temporary roost for a bird:
After an hour of meandering the light was dropping and we decided to head home to the dogs. We are planning on going back in the near future for some more shots though. Lots of cool stuff down there.
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