More Fun than Work

Wow, I've had a flurry (ha!) of camera activity the past few days. I took the telephoto out today around my office (after work...). Here are some highlights from my walking trip.

Snow Day

So, it snowed in Southern Maryland today. I think the final number was something like 10 inches which is the most I've seen in a while. The wind was whipping around pretty good, thus it was not a very serene scene, but it was still fun to watch come down this morning and even last night. I took a walk around noon and took the macro camera with me. Here's a few highlights from my little nature walk. I might take the telephoto out tomorrow around Calvert county after work. That should be interesting.

P.S. The worst part about this snowstorm, of course, is that it will be a cue for morons to page Al Gore to get him to straighten out this whole Global Warming mess. I have given up trying to even talk to these people, but I won't lie and say it isn't frustrating to hear stupid comments such as those equating one snowstorm (and really any cold weather) with obvious proof that climate change is a total hoax. Anyway...on with the pics.

My second blog of the day

This is just for fun. I took this pic a few weeks ago. It's the entire run of Promethea comics (I highly recommend). And to quote Obi Wan..."They're not for sale, if you want them." :)

Funky eye pics

This is sort of an homage to Jeunet and the opening to the theatrical version of Alien Resurrection (yes, the lousy Alien film—which I thought had some cool ideas working for it, but in the end, a lot of things failed...I blame Joss Whedon, which I realize is sacrilege, and perhaps unfair, but hey, I'm just not enamored with his work). Anyway, I took these with the macro lens and I thought they came out pretty well, if not suitably funky/creepy. Enjoy.

Long time, no post

Okay...since I have no followers it's probably not a big deal, but it's been cold as anything lately, so no new pics. BUT, my new macro lens came and I'm looking forward to using it. In the meantime, I have this weird fascination with lamp posts, here's a few that I've captured in the past year. I'll probably post more as I take them.

3/2-update
I threw in another one of a lamp post from my neighborhood. I took it with the macro lens after a severe snow storm.

Goofing around in my cubicle

It's not much, but I took a few of these shots in my cubicle at my office. I fooled around with the ghosting thing on my keyboard. Then I tried to take a fun colorful pic of my candy bowl...and I threw my acid reflux medication bottle into the bowl, just for fun :).

Fooling around with forced perspective

Okay, so with limited props and very little in the way of knowledge as far as technique, here are a few attempts I made at recreating a forced perspective. If you've seen the Lord of the Rings films, you'll know the technique of which I speak. My idea was to have Leia appear much farther away from the Stormtrooper bust, but it didn't quite work out the way I wanted. I spoke to a friend on this matter and she gave me a couple suggestions to maybe improve the effect. So, I'll give it another go at some point. The first image (that is the one on the bottom...oy) was taken on the floor and I think it came out pretty well, but my couch is obviously in the background. In the second two, I thought the light worked out better. But you can see the background consists of some towels...and the effect still isn't pulled off the way I wanted. Still, I thought the pics looked kinda cool.