Monthly Archives: February 2010

Quod Severis Metes

Dumbarton Oaks, DC

Dumbarton Oaks, DC

Dumbarton Oaks, DC

Blogger informed me that they are ceasing to support FTP publishing to my webserver in the next month or so. So now I’m scrambling to find an alternative. Looks like it’s going to be WordPress.

Y’all don’t need to do anything except keep coming back, and maybe update your RSS feed information when the change happens.

A Little Video

While I was at Great Falls I shot a few brief clips in the camera’s AVHCD Lite video format. Of course I forgot that vertical is still basically verboten in video (although I think it makes for very interesting moving pictures). Here’s what they look like cobbled together hastily in iMovie.

What’s interesting to me is that the water appears to be moving much more quickly in these images than I perceived it at the time. Video artifact or trick of the mind?

They Flee From Me

Deer, Great Falls, MD

Most of the time, to be honest, the deer in these parts just stand around and look at you as if to say, “Yeah, and then what?” But these were gals, and a couple of them looked to be young, so they were a little less inclined to hold still and pose properly. Hence the less-than-stellar image quality (well, that, and the light was disappearing).

Deer, Great Falls, MD

River Ice

River Ice, Great Falls, MD

I went back to Great Falls, this time on the Maryland side. The river was roaring, even higher than my last visit. There were fantastic turned-lathe banisters of icicles everywhere. I’ve never seen anything like them before.

One of the great things about shooting digital, is that you can take as many images as your SD card will hold.

One of the problems with shooting digital, is that you can shoot as many pictures as your SD card will hold.

I came home with over 200 images, and have barely begun the process of sorting through them and applying post-processing. But here’s one that just stuns me.