Infinity

Soft, blue and pink morning light as seen from the window seat on a plane bound for Mexico.

Someone's Watching Me

This is yet another photo that found me. I was walking back to the Photo/Media studio at Lake Area Technical Institute, where I work, and I was almost past the Cosmetology Department when I walked by this partially opened locker.I was all the way by the locker when I realized that there was a photo opportunity here. I took my iPhone out and took a few photos but this is the one I liked.No, we don't keep the heads of former students in lockers. But the cosmetology department does store rather good looking "dummy" heads in lockers. I'm sure there is a name for these model heads and I vow to learn it when I am back to teaching tomorrow.

The Bagpiper - Dempsey's Pub

This is a small detail from what I'm guessing may be one of the largest murals in Watertown. It resides at Dempsey's Brewery Pub and Restaurant in Watertown, SD. The primary artist is Larry Nygaard and the pub is worth visiting.Speaking of worth visiting, how about clicking here to see a photo posted by one of my second year photo students? I'm sure Ashley would appreciate it.

Santa Rides A Jet Ski

Congratulations!

Last night the city of Watertown, the Watertown Chamber of Commerce and Focus Watertown hosted a celebration for Lake Area Technical Institute (LATI).As you may know, LATI was recently named one of the top five two-year colleges in the United States by the Aspen Insitute.Pictured here is Gary Williams, mayor of Watertown and former Director of LATI.Click here for more photos.

Azul Picena

In other words, "blue pool."Canon 5DII 1/250s f/8.0 ISO100 17mm

Ready For Another Day

Dark Symmetry

This palm left caught my eye as I walked along the narrow path that took to the little beach a mile down from our resort in Mexico last week. I have photographed palm leaves before but I wanted to try again, this time concentrating on the radial pattern and also trying to manipulate depth of field.I'll have to admit that there is a little Photoshop manipulation in the final product, including the application of a couple of my favorite filters in Color Efex Pro 4 and in the OnOne Photo Suite. But I'm not telling which ones. :-)Other Palm posts:December 25, 2009More Natural SymmetryGod's Ruler?More GreenStringy Palm Leaf - CorfuPalm LeafCanon 5DII 1/60s f/4.0 ISO500 40mm

Same Old Sun, Different Day

Well, I liked the quality of light so much in the photo I posted yesterday that I went back to the same spot 6 mornings in a row to see if I could get something better. In particular, I wanted more shoreline water to show. And this is my next best effort. The casual observer may see little difference between this photo and yesterday's post. And, in fact, there probably isn't - except that I liked the clouds in the previous post better. But I like the dark, wet shoreline in this one.

01-01-12 The Wine-Dark Sea

"The wine-dark sea" is an epithet that Homer used to describe the Aegean Sea. I doubt that Homer's Odysseus ever sailed the waters off of the Yucatan Peninsula, but if he had, would he have heard the sirens' song as I have? Or the mermaids singing?And now, because I can't stop the chain of consciousness that wells up from my distant college past from time to time, I am compelled to quote "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock" by TS Eliot:

"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.I do not think that they will sing to me.I have seen them riding seaward on the wavesCombing the white hair of the waves blown backWhen the wind blows the water white and black.We have lingered in the chambers of the seaBy sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brownTill human voices wake us, and we drown."

But I am not Prufrock, nor was meant to be. . . .

Reprise: Where I Dream

I hope your year was productive and rewarding.

Reprise: Into the Woods

I'm gone for a few days and so I'm reposting a few from past years.