I am a slug and a burned out bum, and that is why it has taken me three months to post these photos of the martial arts demo from June 5 .
Category: Photography
Inspiration
Tiny
Birds of Prey
Photos taken at the Silver Leaf Renaissance Faire. Birds provided by Accipiter Enterprises (website is kind of half-broken at the moment). If you have never been close to birds like this, you are missing out on a truly beautiful, humbling experience.
Are You Looking’ At Me?
Anybody Want a House?
You Want a Piece a’ Me????
Caput Mundi
…Nor Any Drop to Drink
Sorry for the lack of updates; I am out of the habit of ‘blogging. When I leave work the last thing I want to do is spend more time looking at a computer; especially now, when the weather has finally turned and the monsoons are coming home to roost.
Last week Grand Rapids had a genuine mud-slide ; the first I have heard of in my fifteen years living here.
Yesterday I took a two-hour walk around Riverside Park, which was mostly under water. I have a couple of pictures up in the River Project section of es.o. They scarcely do it justice.
The water in places reached from the river to Monroe Street, a distance of over a hundred yards. Where people usually play disc-golf, a blue heron caught fish.
As I was leaving, a group of river pirates on jet boats invaded the park and snatched several children from the playground equipment.
Today the river at the 6th Street Bridge dam is so high that surface tension is almost re-asserting itself; a state which would turn the dam into “just another big rock in the river”. At the fish ladder, the water on the sidewalk is knee-deep. Even when the ice let go in March the water wasn’t so high.
Local experts say that the river could rise as much as three more feet over the next two days, which would put the water well up onto Monroe Street, and do a good job of reminding us that we live in a flood plain.
I :heart: My New Camera, part n+1
This one was about a quarter-inch long. Photographed on the wall in my bathroom.
This one was about an inch long. Photographed on a flowerbed at my parents’ house.
Still fine-tuning the focus and depth-of-field at that range. I am pretty happy with things thus far, with the whole summer ahead of me.