Archive for Photography

Animals Who Are Disappointed with You.

Short post- here’s a cute kid story that I thought of today when I saw this link.

This shark is very disappointed with you.

One of my preschoolers told me he was allergic to sharks once. Allergic to them. It was so darn funny- I asked him if he was saying that because he thought he might get hurt if he came too near a shark (trying to guide him into a better understanding of the term he’s using- see, I’m being such a good teacher). He answered that, yes, if he came near a shark he would be hurt. Then he followed it with, “If I accidentally touch a shark, I might get hurt, and the shark would be very disappointed in me.”

Just plain awesome.

Anyway, that came to my mind when I saw this group of animals who are not angry with you, but honestly need to say that you’ve let them down.

This is no way to pick up a project that needs real attention

I’ve been ignoring my blog for about a month now, and just wanna get myself posting again. Therefore, I bring you the thirsty ant:

I love you, little ant.

Found it on this amazing gallery of garden photography at the Telegraph.

Perspective is Everything.

Well, not everything, but it’s meaningful, and anyway my interest in coming up with a better title for this is waning rapidly.

From here.

I Found These Guys Under a Cabinet

Mrs. Spider was a little put out over the photosession, since it seemed to get her kids all wound up, but I’m sure she understood. When you have children who are that cute, you get accosted for pictures all the time…


Click on the image to get a closer view. Seriously- aren’t the cute?


Here my husband is holding up a dime to give some perspective.

Annie Leibovitz: Portraits of Awesomeness

Yeah, you heard me- AWESOME!

I can’t read the text on this picture on my screen- I strongly recommend you click on the image and read it. (btw- I don’t believe the dog was done by Annie Leibovitz. I just thought he went well with the theme.)

Okay, this is a pretty cool set of portraits.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz did a series of ads for Disney, and you can see a good collection of the older pictures here, but there are a couple new ones done now and you can see a good article about them on the Daily Mail here.

Also, this is a really cool blog. I just discovered it as I was looking for a decent collection of those portraits.

Everyone Knows…

the way to find girlfriend is to have awesome hair!

I couldn’t resist posting today’s Bing image (my default search engine). I still say I’m going to “google” something when I search for it, but I always bing these days, mainly because Google is trying to take over the world. But homepage images like this do sweeten the deal.

These guys are called “Elegant Terns,” by the way.

Deep Thoughts about Intellectual Property and Why I am a Good Sport (okay, I’m just ranting a little)

Argh! I was just getting ready to upload the photograph below of a single rosebud with an equally touching quote by one of my favorite authors (okay, favorite is a strong word- let’s say I got one of these books from the thrift store and it makes me laugh), when I checked out his (their) website so that I could good-naturedly, while giving full credit, mind you, link back to them. And, well, they say not to copy any of their stuff. : P

I am being a very good sport here- I jut now removed the quote from this image and replaced it with my own deep thought- the first one that came to my mind. It’s also my current GTalk stat message. May you be enlightened by it.

Being a little bit of an artist myself, I have strong inner compulsion to protect the work of others and respect their wishes regarding its circulation, but I’m also annoyed by the stupidity of our culture’s intellectual property philosophy. Whatever. I even linked back to them- I’m such a good sport. The truth is, I love Jack Handy and was just laughing very hard at a deep thought- hence the drippy rose picture. I thought it made a good addition to a post with a song and video like that. (This post was really supposed to be just the YouTube clip.) My husband took that picture in Vermont on a vacation we took once, and I think it is made for Deep Thoughtfulness. I made it 1024×768 as that is my background size and I thought Jack Handy would make a good desktop wallpaper for people to download. Well, you’re also welcome to download a me desktop wallpaper… it’s probably just as “Deep.”

PS- the band is a husband/wife team called oceanlab and the song is from a poem she wrote to him once- it’s a little trippy, but isn’t it cool? it makes me think of the book 1984 for some reason.

Lego Photography

I just love discovering new artists who use creative or original media, and this one was Freshly Pressed a few days back. The guy’s name is Dan Phelps and this is his blog, in which he uploads daily (almost daily) photographs of legos. Others have done Lego photography, but I think he does it particularly well. I included a couple I liked- you can buy his prints here. Aren’t they the best?

The Cool Hat Club one is my favorite:

Members of the local chapter of the Cool Hat Club pose for a picture.

Well, said the inspector, it's your father.

Great, thought Roger. He was already having a bad day, and he hated mimes.

Snow and Apple Pancakes!

It’s SNOWING! YAY! I’ve gotten some snow for the next little bit here on my blog and took a few snapshots outside to share the delight. Yes, I am really delighted by this.

Backyard trees. I was told when we bought this house that we would have to cut them down because of the plumbing. My answer is no. I am not getting rid of this. Plumbing be darned!

Bunny tracks! These are the first animal tracks in the snow I've seen this year. (happy feelings)

a snow covered branch from one of my trees

I’m like a little kid when winter comes around. I love the cold outside and the look of the snow and everything that goes with it, even shoveling. I bought some new sweaters and pulled out the Christmas decorations and am feeling all wintry and festive. Hot foods just taste better at this time of year. I got a bag of apples the other day with the urge to bake them into something, and this is what they became:

Apple pancakes! I have made them many times using this recipe and one shredded Honeycrisp apple (which typically turns out to be about a cup). I get six pancakes from the recipe and top them with dulce de leche and a little butter. My husband eats his with maple syrup. More than three is really too much, but to have this exact amount once a month is divine.

This is the road in front of my house. I know an image like this is what people usually hate about snow, but I can't stop looking at scenes like it. The road, the sky, the milky white everywhere; it's beautiful.

A little levity to compensate for my stupidity.

An appropriate use of vandalism.

Sooo. Today. I came in late to work, and learned that the staff meeting that I thought was cancelled was actually still on and that I was supposed to be speaking. Also, I had a coworker come up to me and tell me that I turned on a piece of expensive and dangerous equipment and forgot about it for three hours.

That’s just the beginning- this has been a seriously, disasterously bad day. I don’t wanna think, I just want to eat and shop, and instead I am blogging some brainless humor. I think I’ve been doing a lot of that lately. Maybe I will make something a little later and blog it as well. Then I’ll feel productive. I got these road signs here, which is a site I thought I’d flip through when something bad happened. It seemed like it wouldn’t involve thinking.

Yeah, it's no big deal. Our real problem is those pesky guys with permits! They won't leave!

If I were running a hotel, and I thought MY guests wanted a hand grenade for something, I can assure you that the last thing I would do is supply them with one.

For the vivacious dead, there is now an alternative to the standard coffin.

Monkeys! Hee hee. The mental image this produces for me was enough to get it included.

Obviously taken out of context, but still funny.

See, it’s mermaid fishing- they put a hunky male swimmer on the line and toss him in the water as bait…

The caption on this where I saw it was “waste not, want not.” Quite applicable.

I totally don’t understand this one- maybe it was supposed to say “pop?”

I am guessing this is a computer-translated reference to some special preparation of tripe, but even with that assumption, I don’t want any…

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