Interesting: June 2008 Archives
A volunteer plant grew up in my back yard. It is quite large and easily tops nine feet. I always think of these flowers as mutant sunflowers. Which is not their proper name, of course. I suspect that they are in the family Asteraceae.
I am going to have to cut it down sometime with a hacksaw. But, before I do, I decided to commune with it by doing some sun salutations...
I needed to buy saffron and just couldn't resist this package. It looks like something that the Japanese would do. I wonder if the case that these jars ship in is itself a glass container?
From a lighting standpoint, two big lights to either side and a reflector in the rear was not enough. The camera mounted flash could not be pointed at the scene. The reflection would be too bright. So I pointed it away from the camera and used it to control a hand-held slave flash. I should have turned the firing of the master flash off since it created a new shadow (even pointed backwards). But the slave flash relit the shadow.
An issue came up where I searched for information on photographer's rights. I found a couple of good pages. The first is at Bert P. Krages. And the second is at Andrew Kantor
Dan and I wanted to try a new sushi place. So we chose one surprisingly close to work at Metric and Braker. Unfortunately, it was pretty bad. Starting with the Miso soup. This was the first time that I have had bad tasting Miso soup. The sushi was a la carte. The menu's descriptions of the rolls was laughable. A rainbow roll "has all of the colors." We tried two rolls. Mine was not as advertised. Ugh. Two thumbs down from me at least.
As I was mowing the lawn today, I noticed this bird's egg. How odd. No sign of a nest. No sign of the mother. I wonder if this egg will survive?
Its a shame that there were two other pickup trucks and two smaller trailers in the picture. But you have to work with what you have.
