Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

And what waterfall would be complete without...

A shrubbery!
According to a sign there, the water can rise over the rocks and again up to 10 feet over the mainland. Pretty impressive, here of course it's very low, low enough for shrubs to grow.

Monday, September 27, 2010

To boldly go

If my memory of history is correct, the space shuttle Enterprise (pictured here) was so named from a massive write-in from Star Trek fans, as it was originally to be named something else.
The shuttle is currently parked at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum (no, I don't know how to pronounce his name, it's Hungarian so for all I know it's pronounced "Pickled Mouse")
In any case, it's difficult to capture such a huge vehicle in all its glory, especially with massive crowds around, but I did the best I could.
Can you believe the people at the museum don't allow photographers inside the shuttle? Totally rude ;-)

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Toy

Got a new lens for my birthday. It arrived two days early which was great so I had to go out and try it today after work. It was a perfect sunny day too.
Local park, sleeping girl and colour images converted to BW.
As an aside, I found out why the Ilford film I shot kept turning out sepia. Turns out the local 1-hour joints re-use their developing chemicals. No big deal (supposedly) for colour film, but it does something weird for Black and White. I like what it does, and the trick will be to catch them before they change out the chemicals. I like the sepia look.