New blog
I’ve put a new, more serious photography related blog up at http://www.philjernphotos.com
Please feel free to visit me there, as well. It’s far more dedicated to the art and practice of photography, and I’m putting how-to and practical articles there.
IPL Christmas tree
This tree had so many lights on it I understand NASA is looking into it for use as a planetary beacon.
Still Life
I just had to try this. Light painted with a mini-maglight.
Things that make you go “Huh?”
Mammy’s Cupboard. Just south of Natchez, MS on US 61, the sight of this looming out of the early morning fog caused me to nearly break my neck snapping around to get a better look. I actually went back to get a picture- too bad it was closed.
In Between
There’s a delicacy about autumn that I love- the sense that change is coming, the cooler nights, the shorter days, the slightly ominous feel of things dying around you. Witness this leaf: dead, but yet suspended in midair, its fall interrupted.
A single reason
On my way out the door this morning, my six-year-old granddaughter asked me if I was going to vote. I told her “Yes” and she rushed me, saying “You have to vote for BarackObama for meeeeeee!”
I thought about that a lot. I’m of the age where voting really doesn’t mean much for my future anymore- there isn’t all that much left of it. But for hers? Hell Yes.
I voted for her future today. I voted for the America I want to believe in, the one I’ve thought I believed in most of my life. It would be nice to live the rest of my life with some of the cynicism washed away.
Utterly Amazing
This is from a TED talk last year. Astonishing.
The mists of time
Yes, it’s Photoshop. I like it, though. I might get it printed up for the wall.