Bookends
Sunset, as seen from the glassed in front of Carpaccio, our neighborhood hangout on Crane Street, makes a nice bookend for the sunrise pic. below. I worked pretty productively at World HQ from 8 AM until 12:30, when Mr. Fatigue kind of knocked me down until Dr. appts started at 3:30, followed by an early […]
Up and at ‘em
Cassie and I admired the Eastern sky, seen above, as we did our 2-mile loop this morning, and noted that this was one of those mornings where high clouds in the Western sky were painted a pretty salmon color - we couldn’t really get a good photo of same, though.
The garden beds appear to be […]
On the topic of hacks
So here it is, my new Leica M8. It was outrageously expensive (a gulker.com reader left a comment pointing out that a Canon EOS 5D is much cheaper), and this camera is a hack. True it’s a Leica hack, with German engineering and sensibilities, but, oh man, what a piece of work.
Basically this is an […]
Sunrise in orange and black
Proving great minds - or, perhaps it’s eyes - think - or see - alike, Linda and I caught the same theme on our respective blogs today - a sunrise in orange in black. Linda reports her shot has more foreground interest (true!) and, of course, linked this to her beloved S.F. Giants and the […]
Semaphores
Semaphores is a public art display that tops Adobe’s Almaden Tower. A friend had asked me about it, and I, who never approach the Adobe complex from this direction, had never spotted it.
A call to Adobe’s building services resulted in an email explaining the project: the disks rotate periodically, and are keyed to airplanes that […]
M8 pix, in full res, and a thought on technology…
So, we put a bunch of full-res M8 pix up on Picasaweb, so photo fans can take a look see. I just grabbed a bunch of different things off the chip: I took the camera to work yesterday, and just shot things that caught my eye, like the scene above, snapped on the 4:25 ‘baby […]
An M8 Stanford sunrise
About an hour later, the M8 recorded this scene as I made my way to the Marguerite shuttle. 21 mm/f2.8 Elmarit M, 1/3000 sec@ f8, ISO 640. It’s like, after 12 years, I never stopped using an old school Leica: the M8 is a manual focus rangefinder, period. It’s like you glued a digital CCD […]
M8 and the moon over Menlo Park
Here’s how the M8 rendered the predawn moon and sky as Cassie and I made our way on our walk around 6:30 AM. I rested the camera on a chain-link fence rail at Oak Knoll School and gently pushed the shutter release (still a mechanical design, despite electronic shutter) for a 2-second time exposure (at […]
Dotcom Garden 2007 early spring plan
So, here’s what we think we’ll put into Dotcom Garden come March, if the weather et al. cooperates (we’ll start watching soil temperatures soon), and we’ve sent off for seeds and a seed starter so we can have some seedlings ready to go when conditions are right.
Cassie and I got more done in the Garden […]
More M8 snaps and Dotcom Garden prep…
A neighbor’s trees made a pretty scene against the winter sky as Cassie and I made our way on our 1.8 mile loop this AM.
Then we were off to Dotcom Garden, where we dug the chicken manure - 1/2 sack per box, into the 3 planters we tilled yesterday. We also took a picture or […]