Photo of the Day-Day 217

My Day

This pretty much sums up my day. I had my annual performance review today. Bogus is the word of the day. Apparently, I'm supposed to use my psychic ability and automatically know what is expected of me.

Specifications:
Exposure: 1/100
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO: 400
Camera: Canon EOS 50D
Lens: EF 100 mm f2.8 Macro
Date & Time: 6:08 pm- 8/5/10
Posted: 8/5/10

- Strange ((^_~))

Photo of the Day-Day 97

Red & Yellow

I took this outside the plantation. I loved the red next to the yellow. The only color manipulation I did on this one was for the sky. I just made it a little bit bluer.

Specifications:

Exposure: 1/50

Aperture: f8.0

Focal Length: 5.34 mm
ISO: 100
Camera: Canon PowerShot SX20 IS

Lens: 5.0-100.0 mm
Date & Time: 11:54 am -4/7/10
Posted: 4/7/10

- Strange ((^_~))

Photo of the Day-Day 88

See You at the Crossroads

I got me a brand spankin' new Nikon Coolpix L110 camera on Friday (in red of course) and I've been having a blast (and a lot of frustration) testing it out over the past few days. For the most part I love the camera. It's slightly bigger than a typical point & shoot camera, but feels like it only weighs an ounce. It's got a great zoom lens and the 12 mega pixels so I can print higher quality prints. My biggest headache so far is just getting a handle on the focusing. I don't care how steady I have my hand sometimes I just can't stop the camera from shaking. I actually think it's something internal (in the camera). I can hear tiny computers doing whatever it is they do. I still need to play with it more.

I took this photo as I was leaving the plantation this afternoon. It's not as focused as I would like it, but it'll do for now.

Specifications:

Exposure: 1/470

Aperture: f5.4

Focal Length: 75 mm
ISO: 80
Camera: Nikon Coolpix L110

Lens: Point & Shoot
Date & Time: 5:20 pm-3/29/10
Posted: 3/29/10

- Strange ((^_~))

Photo of the Day-Day 64

Train's ah-comin'

I took this just before I turned into the plantation parking lot. One day I'm going to get a picture of the train going by.

Specifications:

Exposure: 1/50

Aperture: f4.5

Focal Length: 14.3 mm
ISO: 125
Camera: Sony DSC-W50

Lens: Point & Shoot
Date & Time: 1:51 pm-3/1/10
Posted: 3/7/10

Photo of the Day-Day 63

Office Porn

Some women love shoes. Some women love handbags. Some women love clothes. I get giddy for office supplies. Staples, Office Max, and Office Depot are like Macy's, Bloomingdale's, or Nordstrom for me.

Is it wrong that I don't like people touching my office supplies, especially my stapler, without asking? There is one dude in my office who is notorious for picking up the first stapler he sees and using it. I've taking to keeping my stapler close to my monitor. Petty? Yes. Do I care? No.

Specifications:

Exposure: 1/25

Aperture: f2.8

Focal Length: 6.3 mm
ISO: 320
Camera: Sony DSC-W50

Lens: Point & Shoot
Date & Time: 1:51 pm-3/3/10
Posted: 3/7/10

Photo of the Day-Day 21

Blue Dawn

I took this photo in the parking lot at work. It had stopped raining long enough for me to snap this photo and get from the car to my building without getting drenched I'm loving the light and color.

Specifications:
Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/6.3
Focal Length: 60mm
ISO: 1250
Camera: Canon EOS 50D
Lens: EF 28-135mm f3.5-5.6
Time: 7:07am
Date: 1/21/10

Photo of the Day-Day 19

When it rains heavily, this street outside my window at my plantation tends to flood. Today I thought I was going to need to hitch a ride with Noah on his ark. There was a ridiculous amount of rain. I also experimented a little with the color using Adobe Lightroom 2. I should read one of the three manuals I have about Lightroom and really learn how to use the program.

- Strange ((^_~))

Photo of the Day-Day 5

I figured since it wasn't too cold out and not raining that I should take my camera out and go for a walk during my morning break. These flowers (I don't know what type) grow on the side of the building. I've always really liked the purple color. Can anyone say calamari?

You know you're thinking those stem thingies look like calamari.

- Strange ((^_~))

Back at the Plantation

We have a new email server/system thingie here at the plantation. It ain't working probably (shocking) and everybody seems to be in a panic.

I took 2 days of vacation early this week so I could focus on my school work. Somehow I've managed to work 40 hours a week and carry 7 classes. That's 21 units. Yeah, I know...what was I thinking? Let's just say math and the hard sciences will never be my friends and the 4 classes I took over this past year in those disciplines really brought my GPA down. While I was still just above a 3.1, I added more humanities and social science classes to my already full course load this semester to bring that GPA of mine back up. Luckily 3 of my classes are all online.

I LOVE ONLINE LEARNING!!!

I can't believe I waited so long to take online classes. I can do it anytime, anywhere, and unlike being in traditional classrooms, I actually participate in the discussions." I'm taking a political science course and if I actually had to sit in a classroom and be a part of live discussions, I would have dropped weeks ago. Dudes, if I could find an online graduate program that fit my needs I would so be there.

I also finally started writing my senior thesis paper (I've have a rough draft due this Friday). Of course, all my creative juices start flowing during the last few hours of my vacation time (which was quite annoying since I took the 2 days of vacation so I could focus on writing the bloody paper). That might explain why I could not turn off my brain last night and didn't get to sleep until close to 1am. Somehow I managed to drag myself out of bed at 4:30am this morning and did some additional studying.

I also made a big purchase this morning from Amazon. I give more information when I have my new toy in my greedy little hands.

- Strange ((^_~))

P.S. If you were looking for something juicier in a blog posting, remember this, I said I would update this blog more...I didn't say nothing about them being good blog post. Don't judge me. You don't know me. ((^_~))