I believe I have accomplished a lot in my short time on planet Earth:
However, after watching the video below, all of that makes me look like I have just been a couch potato my whole life. Thanks Courtney Oliver, here is to you making me and most of the rest of the world look like idiots!
Breaking News?, originally uploaded by Imagine24.
…you have to stop and take a picture, don’t you? Well, maybe you don’t, but I do and I did.
Why this CBS 19 Action News van, and a police officer earlier in the day, were at Johnn’y Beverage in Westlake is still unknown. However, I believe it to deal with the heavy wind gusts that occurred overnight.
Maybe the wind blew over some alcohol bottles onto the floor? Who knows?! I don’t, I just know that I liked this photo and so here it is…enjoy!
Contemplation, originally uploaded by Imagine24.
Do you happen to notice what is different about me? If so, what do you think…? Let me know by leaving a comment below (or above).
_ice Job, originally uploaded by Imagine24.
After running to the Q to purchase Blue Man Group tickets, mom and I headed to Crocker Park for their 2008 Ice Festival. It was fun to go take a look but not as exciting as I had hoped. When we arrived, there were 5 ice sculptures pieces being completed in the final contest of the festival. The one above took home 3rd place, losing out to a football player and a rock star.
Colors Aglow, originally uploaded by Imagine24.
My nephew Nate was playing with the new improved Simon, now known as Simon Trickster (has 4 modes: classic, rewind, bounce and surprise), when I realized that if I turned off the lights in the room, used a long exposure and moved Simon around real fast, the Simon would make an awesome photo.
This is the product of that experiment. I think it worked out pretty well…what do you think?
Crocker Park’s Throne, originally uploaded by Imagine24.
…but I couldn’t help myself. I had to take a picture of this awesome ice sculpture waiting to be sat on.
After taking this photo and others, I ran to my car, started it, and turned on the heat as high possible. Luckily my frost bite melted away and I soon regained feeling in my hands. Enjoy…
I am messing around and trying different themes that will help display my photos in a better manner. I liked what I had, but it was scrunching my photos without keeping the proportions. If I can fix that, I will stick with it, if not, I might stick with this one. We shall see…let me know what you think!
Anyways, here is today’s photo! Enjoy it…
…you had to write with pens.
Interesting number, huh? It could represent so much: average points per basketball game, someone’s age, how much money you have in the bank, percentage of something, or a grade on a test.
However, that is not what it symbolizes at all. It represents, in days, how long I have talked on only my third cell phone: 824 hours or a little over 34 days. That may seem like a huge number, and it actually is, but I have had this phone for over three years, almost three and a half. So out of 1,095+ days, I spent 34 of those on the phone, talking to someone, somewhere.
There was the good times and the bad times, the quick conversations and the marathon talk sessions. Looking back through the history of my phone is essentially looking back through my life. My phone went wherever I went, no matter what. The calls that this phone made and didn’t make, is a window into the past three years of my life. I have called friends, family, girlfriends and many other random people. I have been smiling, crying, laughing and whining. I called to say hello, or someone called me to ask me a question. So many conversations took place on that phone, it is simply mind blowing to think about.
In reality, when people live to be 80, 90 or even 100, three years is not that much time. However, when you are only 24 and have just begun growing up, three years is an eternity.
These days, everyone has a cell phone, whether you are 9 or 90. If we all could look back on the past three years, according to our cell phones and only our cell phones, I think we all would be amazed at what occurred with that one piece of technology. That one piece of technology we have all grown accustomed to owning and using, day in and day out.
Even though my personal cell phone is not in the best condition, the screen is cracked, the paint is wearing off and the only place you can see Nokia is on the back, this little guy has so many more memories to deliver. He isn’t going anywhere.
Note: At one point, while in college, I used my cell phone as my only phone, so when scrutinizing these numbers, that must be taken into account. If I had a landline phone as well, who knows how different the number might be.
On January 1, 2008, I wrote the post entitled, “America has NYC and the Ball…” to prove that we have one of the weakest new year’s celebrations in the world. I provided tons of photo evidence to prove my point, but I never thought of video evidence.
Well, it looks like someone else completed that task for me, and the tape only enforces my point. I can’t speak for Las Vegas as the video has been pulled, but the US and the world focuses on NYC, so Vegas is a moot point in my mind. Head over to TravelBurner.com to see what all of America is missing out each time the calendar turns to January 1.
It has been awhile since I have posted any of my photos from my A Photo A Day project and I realize that. I can’t even remember the exact last photo that I posted. Can you?
The photos you have missed, and ones you would like to view again, can all be seen at my Flickr account. If you are wondering where my photos are, and I have not posted it here, that would be your best place to check. Keep in mind, I do realize that Flickr is even a tad behind, but I have photos for each of those day, I just have to upload them. That will happen very soon.
I will, in the near future, begin posting each day’s photo here, on my blog for everyone to see, as I had done in the past. I will have to avoid getting lazy, and stick to a schedule. I will do my best.
The new style/look that I have adopted seems to really make photos pop and so I hope to take advantage of that very soon.
In addition to updating my blog more often, I hope to put more time and thought in my photos. Within the past month or so, I have simply been taking pictures of random objects so that I could say that I took a photo that day. I did not think through the photos or try something different, which goes against the purpose of this project: Learn new techniques and find unique objects to photograph. As I became lazy with updating the blog, I also became lazy with actually taking the photos.
So, please keep checking back, as there will be much more new content, specifically photos, to look at and enjoy! You wouldn’t want to miss out, would you?
Explanation: Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. On January 26, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes. Comet McNaught continues to move out from the Sun and dim, but should remain visible in southern skies with binoculars through the end of this month. The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework.
