Beautiful Baby
A couple of things of note:
1.) I actually wrote this post last week, but it broke my website, so I took it down.
Well, it didn’t really break my website, but it broke the HTML, and everything was displaying all wonky. So I spent two hours beating my head against the wall and getting nowhere before finally giving up and writing the darn thing in Windows Notepad. Yaaay 1993. :-p
2.) While I’m writing this post on Thursday evening, you’ll actually be reading it Friday evening or later (I have it queued to autopost on Friday evening), when I’ll be on my first of the four legs of my trip to Rome! Whoohooo!! I’m taking my laptop, so I do plan to post at least a few pictures while I’m there. I’m going with two of my most favorite non-family-members ever — John and Joel! So if you see two weird guys in my picture, John’s the dark-haired one and Joel’s the towhead. And since I have two companions on this trip, maybe I’ll even get myself in a picture or two. :-)
Anyway, these pictures are from a fairly short photo shoot I did of a coworker’s granddaughter this past May — I’m still working on getting my backlog of pictures from last spring and summer onto this website.
As a sort of experiment, I’m going to post large versions of a few shots I like, and underneath next to somewhere near them I’ll post clickable thumbnails of the same picture edited a couple of different ways with regards to color. I’m kind of partial to the low-saturation and black+whites shots myself (the low-sat ones have kind of an antique look that I really like), but it seems like other people I’ve shown them to prefer the more saturated ones. But this is why I solicit opinions — it’s nice to get a feel for what other people like. :-)
As always, click for larger versions. :-)
The best camera is the one you have with you
Leaves: A hundred thousand reasons why I love fall. :-), originally uploaded by Kari_Marie.
I snapped this picture of a tree outside of my work this morning with my cameraphone. I wanted to just stand there and stare at the tree, to watch the morning light play over it.
Instead, I had to content myself with a couple of pictures and a handful of glowing leaves.
I love autumn.
My crazy-colored cat
Alert kitty is alert, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie.
I had another post all queued up for this blog earlier this week, but it broke my HTML, and until I get around to figuring out WHY, this ridiculously cute cat will have to suffice. :-) She was sitting up on my bed, staring out the window at the birds on the telephone wire outside… So cute. :-)
Oh, and this was taken on my new phone. The color originally wasn’t great (I had to do a bit of tweaking in Flickr) but it’s nice to get something that can focus for a change! :-)
Fire truck
Here’s one last one from Gladding, McBean. They used this fire truck to ferry people from the factory back to the tour meeting area. So neat.
Here’s the rest of those Gladding, McBean pictures
I know that the company is called Gladding, McBean, but I still feel rather awkward and ungrammatically-correct putting that comma in there.
Anyway, here are a few more GMB pics–as always, check out the rest on my Flickr gallery.
The kiln room. I could have spent all day in here, just watching the light change. So so beautiful.
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Glaze on a kiln wall. I'm posting this here because my mom said it was her favorite shot because of the color. I don't think it's all that great, but I'm glad she liked it. :-) It was pretty neat how the glaze coated and dripped off of the walls and ceiling of the kilns. I wasn't expecting to see that.
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Part of an original facade from the RCA building. Can you spot the typo? Yep, they really did that. Whoops!
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Have I mentioned how much I loved the lighting? I have? Well, I'm going to mention it again. Because, wow.
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Close-up of the capstone. I love the detail on it, and as always, the light...
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Urns.
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