Category: Photography
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Facebook’s Digital Unclaimed Freight Train
What will happen, 30 years from now, to the 300 million photos we uploaded yesterday to Facebook? Image Source Here’s your answer: Facebook will have them. We (probably) won’t. Facebook will have them labeled, categorized, ranked, and documented as to where and when they were taken, what they’re of, and who’s in them. We (almost…
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The Evolution of … Cardboard?!
When I was a kid, a cardboard box was a cardboard box. No longer! Those days, a cardboard box consisted of several rectangles folded over to create an enclosure. An unusually complicated box might have one to three flaps you could tuck inside. But that was pretty much it. You still see boxes like that.…
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Make Your Own Animated GIFs
Animated GIF files are the rage these days. You know, those digital photos that contain moving objects and people, not unlike the hung pictures at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books. Here’s an example: My niece, Bella Tanguay, making her first-ever horizontal dive. She already was doing straight-down vertical dives, headfirst, but needed coaxing from…
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A Walk in the Park
Cheri and I live just a couple of blocks from Chilhowee Park, an important and historic part of Knoxville, Tennessee. It’s the site of the Tennessee Valley Fair, held every September, as well as many conventions and exhibitions. To us it’s a walk in the park: a site, that is, for exercise walking. There’s a…
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Holding on to Autumn
This time of year, I cling to the beauty of autumn. Brightly colored leaves, I love. Falling leaves — not my favorite. Because once they fall, they’re gone. So I “hold on tight”, cherishing every scrap of beauty, even as it fades away like the smile of Alice’s Cheshire cat. More and more trees show…
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Crawling the Web
It has long seemed to me that with the onset of autumn, spiders become more active and audacious in their web-building. Is that just me — or is there some basis for this theory about crawling the web? Either way, I’ve recently captured some interesting photos of spider webs that appeared behind our house. The…
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Dodging the Chocolate Bullet!
Sometimes it just isn’t safe to go grocery shopping. I mean, not for me. Because some of the folks who set up store displays of tantalizing food really know what they’re doing! Artists they are, truly. Especially around holidays! For us chocolate addicts, that means we’re putting ourselves at risk, every time we step into…
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Baha’i Temple Ceiling
Here’s an enthralling new image of the ceiling of the Baha’i House of Worship in Evanston, Illinois. Taken by Michael Bennett, a Chicago-area resident who frequently walks and takes early-morning pictures of Lake Michigan and its environs. At the center of the Baha’i Temple ceiling is a sacred symbol of the Baha’i Faith — the…
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Seoul Pancake
May 9, 2012 (Tuesday) â Apologies to Rainn Wilson for the pun on his wacky, wonderful website. But facing a 13-hour layover in Seoul, Korea, I was ready to disclaim any further responsibility for anything. Then Zabine and I got a clue: We remembered our Vietnamese home-stay host telling us of a terrific five-hour tour of Seoul we could…
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Vietnam Exit
May 9, 2012 (Tuesday) â Most of the past week â another blur. Our official reason for being in Vietnam ended with last weekendâs celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Hanoi Bahaâi community. Normally we would have headed for home immediately. Did I explain that the earliest return flight turned out to be more…
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Hanoi: Baha’i 20th Anniversary Images