Category Archives: Photography

March 27, 2025 · 23:39

Opening Day

It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball 2025 (yeah, I know that the Dodgers & Cubs played two games in Tokoyo last week) and hope springs eternal. We all started today 0-0 with visions of a great season ahead of our favorite teams!

The definition of “a great season” vary by team, of course. For the Dodgers, anything less than a World Series repeat will be an abject failure.

For the Angels, a .500 season would be their best in years. If they make the playoffs for the first time in eleven years, there would be dancing in the streets.

Pretty much everyone else is somewhere in the middle.

What do you mean, “You have a baseball just sitting on your desk?” Doesn’t everyone? No? What kind of monster are you??!!

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March 26, 2025 · 22:48

Distorted

On the one hand, it’s just a picture of a reflection in the side of an office building with the unflat glass distorting the image of the under construction office building across the parking lot.

On the other hand, I had just been doomscrolling about the complete, world-class clusterfuck which is the current US government, and I was thinking about how I don’t even know what’s a satirical article from The Onion vs. what’s front page news from the Wall Street Journal any more. The constant lies and misinformation being spread by folks we were supposed to trust absolutely is distoring reality in ways we’re not prepared to deal with on a 24/7/365 basis.

I fear that it’s having effects on me that I can’t prevent, can’t counteract, and can’t avoid. And I’m way, way too old to deal with any of this Civil War II shit.

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March 25, 2025 · 23:40

Wispy

And thin. And complex once you start paying attention to the details.

Makes me want to be a bird. Maybe one of those hawks…

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March 24, 2025 · 23:04

No Context For You – March 24th

When you’ve got as many pictures as I’ve taken for as many years as I’ve been taking them, that’s quite the little rabbit hole to dive down into.

Might be best to tie a rope around my waist so I can be hauled back out if I get lost.

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March 23, 2025 · 23:45

Cracking Open The Sky

“Clear and a million!” So much blue, and not even the hint of a cloud anywhere. Rayleigh scattering as far as the eye can see.

Except for…

Southwest Airlines Flight #150, San Francisco to San Diego, at 39,000 feet.

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March 22, 2025 · 21:42

Bling

One of the standard assumptions about Los Angeles (from folks who have never actually been here) is based on reality. That is, “There is NO SUCH THING as ‘too much’ garish, gaudy, or over the top stunt to attract attention. There is NO SUCH THING as ‘too much bling.”

Yes, this appears to be a Tesla Model S that’s got a wrap or paint job making it a gigantic rainbow iridescent thing, looking like some sort of  wrapped birthday present for a bar mitzvah or three-year-old’s birthday party.

This thing was parked next to a major street (Topanga Boulevard) instead of up by the stores (the better to be seen by everyone!) and it’s a blurry, full digital zoom picture because it was a block away and I’m blase enough to not bother to drive up that direction just to get a better picture. I’ve been in LA a long, long time now.

Anything for attention in LA! Which turns out to be a self-fulfilling requirement, since Angelenos have seen just about everything and we’re hard to impress.

Good luck, Rainbow Dude(ette?)!

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March 21, 2025 · 23:45

Looking For Inspiration

One of those days where I feel like I’ve been ridden hard and put away wet. Down. A bit depressed. Thinking I should go out and buy a pinata cause I really need to beat the shit out of something and then eat chocolate until I puke…

The “inspirational” and “motivational” corner of my office magnetic white board wasn’t quite doing it.

Thank goodness for those last two functional brain cells who forced me out into the garage to spend a couple hours starting to clean up the horrendous mess that’s still out there from the Great Pi Day Water Heater Explosion & Flood of 2025. Some tunes, some cleaning, some order out of chaos, some mindless, physical exertion, ending in at least a small spot of a clean floor and things in stacks and no longer all over the floor.

It may not have been the first row, but at least I moved up from the third row to the second for the time being.

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March 20, 2025 · 23:54

Random Old Photos – March 20th

It’s almost that time!

Ten years ago in mid-April we were in Raleigh-Durham and discovered the true meaning of *POLLEN*!!

That yellow shit was everywhere. There were times when the wind was whipping it into drifts and I thought we would need a show shovel.

Surprisingly I don’t remember having any allergy problems despite being hip deep in tree DNA.

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March 19, 2025 · 23:00

Sixty-Nine

On the way home from the gym & an intense training session tonight, stopping at the store accompanied by a great sunset, grinning through the pain, another year older.

It’s not pretty, but nothing’s killed me yet. Let’s hope I can still say that in another 365 days.

Happy Birthday to me!

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March 18, 2025 · 23:27

Stained Glass – March 18th

Because some days you just need to look at something colorful and pretty at the end of the day so you can breathe and decompress.

Prague Cathedral.

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