Andy, Mel’s best Friends father (follow that?). This man treats us with such respect it’s incredible. I mean, Mel’s not his daughter, and I’m certainly not his son in law, but he’s come to our house, re-done our floors, driven us home from his cottage (abandoned at the cottage – I’ll tell you about it later) and really, he doesn’t owe me or us anything.
Great guy – I hope my son grows up to be as generous – not me though, I keep what I get for myself!
Nothing particularly special about this shot here other than the fact that my computer crashed about a dozen times while I tried to stitch it; eventually I had to break it up into 4 sections and combine those. Pano’s can be tricky for display on the screen, because I think a lot of their value is in the extreme detail you can get out of them.
Maybe of more interest to those in Ottawa you can zoom into the image a bit here.
Also significant to note, or at least to note my current systems shortcomings, I couldn’t process it at it’s native file size (about 15,000 pixels across), so I had to shrink it to 5,000 pixels wide; which is the zoom amount you get on the link.
For those who don’t know, the dude pictured here is Superman’s arch-nemesis Lex Luthor.
He’ll be appearing at the Ottawa Grape Stomp on Saturday the 20th. If you think you got what it takes to take the man down, sign up a team – it’s for a good cause.
What an interesting week!
First, I suppose I’d like to welcome all you new visitors from the interview I did with Petapixel this week (thanks Michael!). I don’t post on this blog as often as I should, and probably only half as much as I’d like, but if you subscribe you won’t have to worry about bookmarking the site or anything.
Maybe a bit of my absence from the blog is due to micro-blogging through Twitter since it allows me to get a lot of shit off my shoulder or express many of my neurotic thoughts as they happen rather than try and aggregate them incoherently here later.
Another turn of events happens to be the sale of my Panasonic LX3 (yes, under a year from when I bought it) – I just couldn’t justify the cost to use ratio I was getting out of it. Keep in mind, the fault was completely mine; I’m just not a great wide-angle shooter. So following the advice of a friend; “if you don’t love it, you shouldn’t have it” I didn’t love it, so I ditched it on a local graphic designer who, undoubtedly, will take some fantastic photos with it.
But I can’t just be WITHOUT a camera sometimes (can I?) as Chase says “the best camera is the one you have with you” I do need something to fill that gap; so I’ve pre-ordered the Canon G11.
I don’t usually go for this high-turnover idea, but I have some reasons behind my decision.
Will I be disappointed? Maybe.
There’s no guarantee that I’ll love it – but there’s certainly a chance I’ll love it more, and that’s something I’ve gotta find out.
Everyone says this but this week has definitely been the case; I need more time.
A lot of it is the results of needs to do: I need to take care of Quinn when he’s sick; I need to make sure Mel doesn’t do too much when she’s dislocated 4 of her ribs while pregnant; I need to work and make a living to keep feeding the people of the house and possibly to buy more random shit – but when these all happen simultaneously something gives.
As always, the ‘wants’ creep into your life too, and they are sometimes oh-so-easier to do, often, like reading a couple strobist entries or trying to find the time to download David’s new book (then read it), than it is to sleep, or write one more article for work or send that special “thank you” letter to everyone I owe it to…