…I posted this image:
Leaving Vancouver
It was one of my first images from an Alaskan (Vancouver to Seward) cruise. How quickly time flies – it already feels like it was two or more years…
August, 2010
...now browsing by month
One Year Ago, on Flickr…
Sunday, August 8th, 2010Civilization
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
Campground Outhouse
My Father-in-law visited once, many years ago, from overseas. While travelling around, he marveled at the rest and camping areas – so civilized, not even smelly. Shoot, even clean, with toilet paper that’s not immediately stolen!
Despite the worldwide recession, I’m finding that this is still the case. We must be rich – people aren’t stealing the TP (reality: it’s usually locked up pretty well – you’d have to be fairly motivated).
Last month, we went camping. As usual, the restrooms were surprisingly non-smelly, and the exteriors were… surprisingly clean. Of all the photos that weekend, this was my favorite.
One Year Ago, on this site…
Thursday, August 5th, 2010…I was on vacation, and had some pre-recorded images posted. This one was the post at that time:
A sun-kissed tree
Throwing some Hate towards the WSJ
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Multiple pages - really, why?
I have somewhat of a minor gripe, but it really burns my britches. So just like that, you’ll have to deal with it. The gripe: the WSJ photoblog has changed their format. It used to be that you would click on the page, and it would load (albeit slowly, sometimes – there are a lot of high-quality pictures there, usually). Starting a short while ago, with a short hiatus which ended today, they shifted the format: you load the day’s photos, and then there are more pages of photos. There might be two or three pages.
The main gripe: when I’m looking at pictures online, I’m in the zone. Particularly if it’s news-related. With the WSJ now, I get to the bottom and… have to wait for the next page to load. Just a few seconds? Eff you: I’m on the other side of the country. It takes a while. This multi-page policy completely interrupts the flow of my reading.
Think like this: you’re reading a great article on the front page of a newspaper. It tells you to skip to the back. Now, in the middle of the article: stop the person for two minutes. Hell, stop me for twenty seconds: concentration is completely lost, and I might as well not read the article at all. The interruption has to be small.
But it’s not small. Twenty seconds would be a dream, where I’m at – and in any case, it prevents me from going backwards, or scrolling up and down.
The thing is, I’m not really sure *why* this is. It’s not like the extra pages do anything other than piss people off. Are they so desperate for ad revenue that they want the single ad at the top to get two more impressions?
Really, it’s senseless.
Blue and Gold
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010A recent favorite, originally posted on Flickr:
Blue and Gold
Not bad for an itty-bitty camera…
Photographs from a Women’s Prison
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Women's Prison Gallery, partial Screenshot
I recently came across a fascinating online exhibition: Photography Workshop at Tirgsor Women’s Prison. Be warned: a few images are not safe for work (in the U.S. and other repressed areas). But by all means, if you don’t fear the human breast, check it out and think about the photos.
To me this hearkens back to one of the original purposes of photography: to show you (me) something different. At this, it succeeds: barring a catastrophic accident or psychosis, I am unlikely to be interred at a women’s prison – much less one in Romania. The imagery is eye-opening in that aspect.
Even more interesting to me: the images are not made by professionals. All images are made by women who are learning. And their work? Better than many professionals.
There are 95 images on the site, and each one made me stop and think.
Highly recommended.