This is our town's Frisbee course, which is located along the now-flooding Sioux River.
Weather Related
Just when we thought spring had arrived, we got a snow. But this snow came down in clumps. Fortunately, the snow melted by the next day.
The Big Landscape Sphere
This landscape globe is in the lobby of the Fine Arts Theater at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. I think the artist is a South Dakota artist named Dick Termes, who calls his creations Termespheres.
iPhonography
I didn't make the word "iPhonography" up. It is a "school" of photography these days and you have noticed that several of my recent posts have a different look. That's partly because I've been use my phone quite a bit to take photos. It is also because I have been using an app called Instagram to edit and then post the photos.Of course, it's not the camera or the software that takes the photos. But in the case of these iPhone photography, both the hardware and the software are more prominent in the look the pictures have. Like it or not, I will be playing around some more with these cool tools and sharing a few of the products here.This photo, incidentally, is in the atrium of the Holiday Inn next to the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, SD.
Chris At Work
Chris S is working on his lesson for the day in his mobile office in the Rushmore Civic Center in Rapid City. We love technology. And we're at a technology conference.
Iron Creek
I'm back at Iron Creek again, but this time with my cell phone camera and Instapaper.I made a short video of this place, which you can view here. The video was made with my iPhone and then edited and published (via ATT 3G) with my iPad 2. The movie needs more editing but it is testament to how fairly simple tools allow for creation and publication in the field (or in this case, in the woods).
Vortex
I'm still in the car wash.
Soaped
What do you do when you are sitting in a car wash? Take pictures, of course.Originally published to scottshephard.posterous.com
Japanese Garden
in Travel
My photo students and I are learning about "Blending Options" in Photoshop so I'm experimenting. These beautiful, smooth stones were part of the landscape at the Japanese Garden on the campus of Cal State in Long Beach, CA.
Nixon's the One
in Travel
While visiting the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, I found this bust of Nixon, apparently looking approvingly at a series of US flags. He seems satisfied. And he's been bronzed.
The Old, Rugged Tree
While visiting California recently, I wandered over to a cemetery near my aunt's house. It was a cemetery unlike anything in my home state - large mausoleums with drawers for the remains of loved ones. And there were no above-ground tomb stones.The most striking feature was the landscape and trees, most of which were kinds I didn't recognize. I'm guessing this tree, which is framed by the colored class walls of mausoleum vestibule, is older than the cemetery. Is is a banyan tree? I don't know.
Where I Work
in Nature, South Dakota
Just in case some of you are lounging in tropical climes and were missing the experience of a South Dakota winter, this may help. This is one of the west doors at Watertown High School a month ago on a day that wasn't exactly a "Chamber of Commerce" day.The good news is that most of that snow is gone now, though we did experience a mini-blizzard earlier this week. Years ago our state tourism department used "Be glad you live in South Dakota" as their slogan. But they dropped it for some reason.But, still, I do like South Dakota. I just don't like winter. Anywhere.