30 second time exposure, F3.5, ISO320 at Rock of the Woods in Glenora. Click to embiggen.
Category: photography
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Is this really about the TV?
When you walk everywhere, you are going slow enough to see things faster.
I found this while walking to work at Vancouver and Burdett. At the side of the road in this area, one can frequently find televisions of the cathode-ray tube variety – you know, the big old TVs that are extremely heavy and emit radiation. Thanks to LCD/plasma screens, these are a good example of obsolete and low quality – and sometimes plain incompatibility. Someone had painted these letters on the screen. I’m not sure if it is public art, or a warning, or a statement of philosophy which extends to anything in the interpreters mind – but it could be all three. Certainly there can be a cost to picking up something that has systemic failings or something that has become antiquated.. But I wonder what this could mean to you – the person looking at this right now. Comments? Thoughts?
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Eagles and Ducks
This duck was left out in the surf after a series of vicious but ultimately failed attacks by an eagle. Ken (pictured here) spotted the duck under water, lifted him up onto his board, and surfed him back to the shore and safety.
Photo taken at Cox Bay, Tofino area.
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Hilary & David at Ocean Turquesa
Hilary and Davey at Ocean Turquesa Already an unforgettable trip, and we are only at the midpoint. Highlights so far include a trip to Playa Del Carmen’s main strip, Instituto Acuatico Xel Ha, Mayan ruins at Tulum, snorkelling here above a nationally protected reef habitat, and doing a lot of lounging poolside while learning about blizzards in Victoria.
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10+ years of quicksilver
My Mac Quicksilver G4 tower (I can hear people already going “WTF is that, it’s an apple product that doesn’t start with an “i”?!) turned 10 quietly this summer, running non-stop on original parts. And I mean, really non-stop. The computer has been off only for moves, which all together span maybe 30 hours over that time. Otherwise, it’s been up, running as a server. Additionally, on this computer I ran several websites, composed a lot of music, recorded mixes, radio shows, designed and made well over a hundred websites, did a lot of photo management with 70,000+ photos, did many many hours of homework, blogged most of what’s on davingreenwell.com, and so much more. When this computer was first launched, it – like much of what has come from Apple – was referred to as “Insanely great.” Without a doubt, it has been just that.
Last night I moved it away from the desk it had been for a lot of that time, and sold the desk to my friend Matty, who will be putting it to good use. Now the Quicksilver tower is hooked up to my 40″ screen in the living room, playing a vast library of music and doing the occasional slideshow. I’ve set it up to do screen sharing, and have also divorced it from its keyboard, mouse, and screen. Now I control it remotely from my MacBook and it shares that 40″ screen with a tiny little AppleTV (2nd generation.)
