Photography news

At today’s picnic for Entertainment Imaging employees, I got at honourable mention in the photography contest for one of my crow pictures.

I used the 25 dollar gift certificate to pay for some film I’d just had developed. I got some new and better pictures for my
Standing Stones gallery (starting on page 2) and for my Crows gallery (again, starting on page 2).

I also got some pictures back from the Alaska cruise, mostly from the whale watching part. Most of the pictures don’t grab me that much, but a couple might be good if I crop them down and blow them up. Oh, but those are on the Picture CD I left in the car, so hopefully I’ll get those uploaded later.

Kayak dream

Last night on the drive home from Ottawa, I was thinking about some pictures I’d like to try taking when I get kayaking again. One of the things I like to do with photography is get unusual camera angles, and I came up with some good ones that I could use the unusual folding nature of the Coolpix to good advantage.
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My car, the mother

One thing I’ve discovered from buying brand new cars is that it starts out being your pride and joy, but eventually you start longing for the day when you can replace it. The transition is slow, but two of the biggest break points on that transition are the first big scratch or dent that you decide not to bother fixing, and the first major repair work. This weekend, I think I got both of those out of the way.
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The flying dream

You know, normal people have “flying dreams” where they’re floating above the surface of the earth. Last night I had a “flying dream” where I was sitting in an airport pilots lounge shooting the shit with my pilot friends. And one of them looked a lot like Bill Law, although not enough to make you think it was him, although at first the guy was pretending to be him, but trying to give people very dangerous advice about flying in ice producing clouds. Then he admitted to being Bill’s long lost brother from Canada.

Very weird.

Some random thoughts about the blog

Last night, lying in bed trying to get to sleep, I had a few random thoughts about my blog.

  • If I were to just put the already generated pages of Maddy’s blog and the memorial blog, and not allow new entries or comments, then it doesn’t need a blog engine behind it, and so therefore I could upgrade *this* blog to the newest version of MovableType or TextPattern. I can’t currently upgrade MovableType because the current version’s free license only allows one author.
  • I should make a new category for a pain diary, but not put it on the main page. Sort of like how on Maddy’s blog only her entries go on the main index, but other stuff posted about her by others goes in the category index on the side.
  • I should put all the updates I’m doing to the navaid.com site into a blog, either this one or another one. I should also transition the copilot-announce mailing list to Gradwell.