In lieu of an actual post...

...I give you...nail polish bottles. Just having fun with my macro button on my camera lately.

First Day of Spring

I shot several springtime photos last weekend. Here's one of them in honor of today:



Edit: A few more shots are up at Flickr if you're so inclined.

Blue Skies

It's a dark, rainy day here today (which I don't really mind—don't get me wrong). My neighbors up north are getting snow, but here, it's just wet. Anyway, a few days ago, we had a very cold, gray day, and there had been rumors of sleet (didn't happen). After work, I pulled into a parking lot and noticed the skies beginning to clear. Of course, I grabbed my camera.

Dusk at the Lake

I just seem to be in the mood to take shots of the sky lately.

For whoever's interested, Flickr has been updated a bit (though a few of the shots have already been seen here). If I ever have another weekend where I don't have to work, I hope to get out and actually vary my subjects.

So this is what it means to own a digital camera.

I recently got a digital camera, and I was driving home from work the other night and was stunned by how beautiful the sky was. Then I realized that I had my camera with me. It's just a shame I was, you know, driving. By the time I got out my camera and reached a red light so I could actually get the shot, I'd lost a lot of the sky because of the trees, and I had that darned light post smack in the middle of my view. But still, there's something really great about being able to take a shot just whenever. And I'm still amazed that my new camera is about half the size of my hand; I'm so used to my old-school Pentax (old-school, yes, but still pretty awesome). The more technologically advanced folks have, of course, appreciated this sort of thing for years. I'm late catching up, so I'm still in that phase of childlike wonder. Anway, this is not a great photo, but I'm quite glad I was able to capture at least part of that sky.

Daily Dose of Imagery

For some time, I've been meaning to highlight Sam Javanrouh's photo blog, Daily Dose of Imagery. I've become quite the fan, and I make it a point to visit every day to check out each new photo. If I'm away from my computer, I make sure to check the entries for the days I've missed. Javanrouh seems to do quite a bit of traveling, so you'll see shots from many different cities around the world included on his site. (Yesterday's photo from Rome, for example, is a stunner.) But he makes his home in Toronto, so that city is represented particularly well. For example, check out this fun composition (be sure to wait for the second box on the page to load and then move your mouse across it). And since something like this is pretty foreign to me, living down here in the deep South, I'm fond of these two shots of Nathan Phillips Square. I'm also drawn to his various photos of cafés, including these two of the Balzac. But I'm only scratching the surface. The archives page is a treasure trove. Enjoy!