The Comeback From My Most Recent Comeback
5 years ago
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Photo Retrospective - Day 13, Beauty of Everyday Objects
Couldn't decide on just one.
My antique marble table
All my magnets. From sports teams, to places I've visited (the Alaskan ones are from my dad), to Starsky & Hutch, to various misc.
The Longenberger pottery that I don't use, only for show.
Photo Retrospective - Day 10, Motion
I tried experimenting with these.
Not probably what one thinks of as "motion".
In the first one I twirled around while snapping the camera. The sescond one, I jumped up & down while taking a picture.
Not probably what one thinks of as "motion".
In the first one I twirled around while snapping the camera. The sescond one, I jumped up & down while taking a picture.
Photo Retrospective - Day 9, Macro (Close Up)
These are two snaps of my second very favoritest painting by my very favoritest artist.I bought a print from the museum and had it specially framed.Bonus points for anyone who can name the painting and the artist (and triple points if you can name it in it's original language!)
(My very favoritest painting wasn't available.)
Photo Retrospective - Day 8, The Sky
I saw this cloud last Saturday morning, and Andrew thought it resembled the alien spaceship cloud from 'Independence Day'. It's pretty close. What do you think?
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Photo Retrospective - Day 7, History
Today, I'd like to offer two 'before' pictures (taken from the Web) of two disasters earlier this century, and my 'now' pictures.
The March 4, 1908 Lakeview (Collinwood) School Fire - the worst school fire in the history of the history of the US (there was a worse explosion in 1937 in TX, but in strictly fire terms, this is the worst).
172 children, 2 teachers, and 1 rescuer were killed. There was even a motion picture camera at the scene! (There was one at the 1901 Galveston Hurricane as well) The long-lost film was recently found in the Library of Congress, just before the 100the anniversary.
Today, the site is a Memorial Garden. Just next to it is the newly re-built Collinwood Memorial School.
Also as a History lesson is the July 24, 1915 Eastland Disaster. The worst loss of life on the Great Lakes - surprising considering the boat was still moored in the Chicago River! It was overcrowded, and too many people rushed to one side and the ballast wasn't stable. 800 people were crushed, drowned or smothered. Including 24 (I believe) whole families.
Today, it is very peaceful and pretty.
Photo Retrospective - Day 6, Light & Shadow
Instead of doing either/or, I did both. Didn't come out quite like I'd hoped.
Photo Retrospective - Color
I change my fake flowers in the kitchen every month. This is October's colors.
Photo Retrospective - Day 3, Architecture
This is one of my favorite pictures from DC.
I love the juxtoposition between the sleekness of the Washington Monument rising as a more modern building, over the early 1800s of the two buildings in the forefront.
So many different, yet beautiful, styles.
Photo Retrospective - Day 2, Decay
I was going to post a picture of The Ohio State Buckeye Football program..... (sigh)
Instead, here's the remnant of the veggie garden.
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