What is this construction thing called? It looks like a mini wrecking ball with a giant clip sticking out of it, all attached to a crane.
(BallClip.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
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*Gasp* Is that David LaGesse of Dave’s Download, doing interviews with passersby at a Georgetown street corner?
Mornings by the Water
Just a few snapshots I took Monday and Tuesday morning walking between Foggy Bottom and Georgetown. I was so struck by the contrast between blue sky and retreating rain clouds over the Potomac River that I had to snap a panorama yesterday morning. The broken pumpkin in the canal could have been a nicer shot, too, if I had better zoom. Or wading boots.
And yeah, I’m liking this camera a lot.
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Rain clouds over the Potomac as I walk up the Harbor. Kennedy Center is at left.
(Potomac.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
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Firetrucks and police on the P St Bridge. Below, a cruiser in the woods. Something’s up.
(Firetrck.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
Sunday at the Museum
After church yesterday, Amy and I went over to the Old Patent Office Building to wander around the National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum. We looked at Asher B. Durand’s American landscapes and portraits of key Spanish figures in the American Revolution, wandered down the Great Hall, and peered through the windows at the soon-to-be-opened Kogod Courtyard. Some photos:
Caturday!
This is Caturday – Baby Steps With The SD1000 Edition.
More photos of the cat as I get used to the new camera.
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Rowers carrying their boat up past Washington Harbour.
(RowCarry.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
SD1000
As previously mentioned, I just got a Canon Powershot SD 1000 / Digital Ixus 70 to replace my A400, which, while functional, is succumbing to age and wear. (Mostly it’s because of cracks in the casing from the night Fr. Nebres borrowed it to take a look at his photo, then handed it back to me, at which point my slippery fingers lost their grip and dropped it to the hard marble floor. Ever since then the A400 has been occasionally switching between camera and playback modes spontaneously, and the power and shutter buttons have not always worked consistently.)
Photos I’ve taken so far with the SD1000 have been acceptably clear and vibrant. The camera body is lighter and much less clumsy in the hand than I expected of such a square-cornered model, and the user interface is much quicker and more responsive than on the older A400 — with a 2.5″ LCD which is more than large enough for my needs. Probably my only gripe about the UI is that it now hides Stitch Assist mode deep in the Setup Menu, whereas on the A400 it was more quickly accessible from the Function Menu. I do take a lot of panoramic stitches, so that’s going to be a bit of a pain.
My first photo taken with the SD 1000 was a macro shot of — whom else — Pandora the Cat. Unfortunately, I had not mastered the art of remembering to turn off the flash, so it went off right in her face. It’s a good thing her eyes were shut at that moment — and her tongue was out:
Subsequent photos of my wife and myself turned out okay, though a bit dark in auto-ISO mode with backlighting:
And I also amused myself with the long-exposure feature by trying my hand at some crude light-drawing:
The face approximates how I feel about the camera.