Posts by Chris Waugh
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Nora Leggs,
it does take quite a lot of crouching down, peering at odd angles,
...pulled muscles, strained joints... I've tried getting right up close but with limited success. One thing is I noticed when I got my DSLR that I naturally held it so that the edge of my glasses got between my eye and the viewfinder and I'm still working on looking through it at a better angle for focussing properly. My cellphone is the closest I have to snappy, and I've managed to get some alright up close stuff out of it, but nothing macro-like, really. And it doesn't handle difficult light conditions well and air pollution can do interesting things to light - yesterday afternoon and this morning the light was good for my phone, but often it isn't.
Oh well, lots more practice to do.
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Jos,
How many of those poor pale things does anyone need really?
S'pose that depends on how many mouths you have to feed.
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Nora Leggs,
more drizzle
I've been wondering for ages now, how do you capture such detail?
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Completely irrelevant, but... Town of the Golden Sixties. I wonder where Islander is?
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Hard News: This time it's Syria, in reply to BenWilson,
I don’t think, however, that the Democrats are actually very good at this game.
I dunno, history would seem to suggest the Democrats are just as good at launching military action as the Republicans.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Russell Brown,
You forgot this line:
and really what is there to know, ultimately?
Somehow, I don't think he's channeling Zhuangzi here. I tried to read the rest, but I really couldn't. I guess I could print it out and show it to my students as an example of why if you're going to be an arsehole, you should at least have the decency to write well.
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Smogsun. Sunset yesterday.
And early this morning.
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A bit out of season up here, I think.
And just for the hell of it, tonight's sunset.
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Hard News: The shaky ground of…, in reply to Rachael J,
It never ceases to amaze me how few people who work in HR are actually any good with people.
And I am still amazed at how many foreign language teachers are themselves really crap communicators, even those with Masters and higher degrees. I wonder how widespread this phenomenon is. The captains of the Rena and Costa Concordia seem to have been a bit lacking in navigational skills.
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Hard News: The shaky ground of…, in reply to Joanna,
Homer wore a pink shirt to work and had to do a test and got Bart to fill it in.
I remember that.
Bart: "Do you hear voices?"
Homer, getting impatient with the test questions: "Well I'm hearing one now, aren't I?"
