Griffith Observatory

On the way back from the Getty, we stopped at the Griffith Observatory–where Mark had suggested we climb to the roof to take in the sunset. It was a good idea. We were told it was an exceptionally clear day, as people pointed out Catalina. When the sky was finally black and blue, we took [...]

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Getty out

jlodder said he wanted to go to the Getty, and that sounded fine to me. So I didn’t look into it much.  It was an art museum.  It had collections from a wide range of periods. It was famous.  We were going.  Good enough. I suppose I expected something along the lines of the Art [...]

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I might have some special powers . . .

But then again maybe I don’t. This blog supports ambivalence.

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Huntington Gardens

High on my list of places to go in Los Angeles was the Huntington. When I said this, I was thinking of the Library, with its permanent exhibit, including the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Gutenberg Bible, double-elephant folio edition of Audubon’s Birds of America, and so on.   I had no idea that the Library’s dimly [...]

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Backlog backlog backlog

So many photos, so little processing time. Photos of . . .   Ahhhhh!

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Looking back at Ophelia

This week, everyone in Chicago is re-posting photos they took of the blizzard of 2011. Instead, I would like to take you on a little trip through the looking-glass to reconsider my portrait photography homework from the week after the blizzard. You may recall that this summer, I took a Photoshop class.  While doing so, I [...]

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Wyalusing 1: Water, water, and goat’s milk

I saw cs10 on Thursday, and she asked for photos of our two-woman camping trip to Wyalusing State Park over Labor Day weekend. One should, as the axiom goes, be careful what one wishes for. This trip was the first time I had ever been to Wyalusing and the  “driftless” region of Wisconsin, and I [...]

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The Beehive

Picking up the Boston narrative where I left off, BAP and I spent our first night in Boston at the Beehive, a jazz club  in the Boston Center for the Arts. The guide-book in our hotel room said it was the new hip and elegant place to be.  We weren’t dressed for either, but we went anyway and [...]

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Like Virgil Thrasher

I’ve signed up for a 5 week Photoshop class with Lisa (my teacher from the winter) at the Hyde Park Art Center. I took a Photoshop training class through work a few years ago and have been using it ever since, but the number of things one can do with Photoshop seems endless. I expected [...]

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Chihuly at the MFA

Monday morning BAP and I drove into Boston and parked at the location that inspired my trip in the first place: the Museum of Fine Arts. The first stop at our first stop: the Chihuly exhibit. It was pretty amazing. Almost as amazing was how well my iPhone photos came out.  Which made phone photography irresistible to [...]

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