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photos and a webcam

Jason — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:23:56 +0000

Well, once a week is proving too little to get my fix of photography, so I’ve taken the plunge and set up a photo blog. My goal is to have a new image up daily (during the week anyhow), but we’ll just have to see how well I’m able to stick to it . Anyhow, take a look around.

In other photo-related news, I finally got the webcam back up at work. Things slowed down for a few days at work, so I tinkered around and set up a brand-spankin-new usb camera that monitors the office for any signs of unusual activity. Check it out via the webcam page.

of the costly sort

Jason — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 17:03:48 +0000

This week’s theme was patriotism. I wanted to take a picture that captures some of my ambivalence about the topic. On the one hand, my Christian identity far transcends my national identity, but on the other hand I appreciate the security, freedoms, and culture (some of it, anyways) of the U.S. I found the image I was looking for in this memorial that was down on West Beach on Memorial Day. Crosses had been set up to honor the American soldiers who had died in Iraq, but the other costs of the war, specifically money and the many Iraqi deaths, were also acknowledged.

Water Fountain

Jason — Thu, 26 May 2005 16:10:53 +0000

I took the picture for this week’s photothursday contest (theme is water in case you hadn’t guessed) when we were on vacation in San Luis Obispo a couple months ago. We were geocaching in this park and came across a water fountain that wouldn’t turn off.

Coming Home

Jason — Thu, 19 May 2005 17:03:36 +0000

This week’s photothursday contest was the most unique yet: “In life, this ___ is something I savor.” Cool topic, but it was so wide I had trouble coming up with anything. Finally, driving home from class last night (coming from Pasadena at about 11pm) I realized there was one thing I definitely savored: coming home, especially on days when I have class. So, I took a shot of our house when I got home. I don’t think the picture adequately captures it, but there is something wonderful about having the light left on for me and knowing family is waiting inside.

5 O’Clock Shadow

Jason — Thu, 12 May 2005 16:30:51 +0000

After winning the photothursday competition for the first time last week I got to choose the topic for this week, and so chose self portrait. After taking a good hundred pictures that were blah I came up with a couple I liked. The inspiration for this one came from one of student photos I saw in the hallway here at Brooks. I did end up looking a little surlier than I intended… I guess I was concentrating too hard on taking the photo to smile

tuckered

Jason — Thu, 05 May 2005 21:07:35 +0000

r e s t. That’s the theme for this week’s photothursday contest. Dogs seem to be popular subjects for the category which makes sense since that’s about all they do (true for Toby, anyhow). I like this one because I caught the grain of the wood and Toby just as he’s starting to nod off. Of course, he wasn’t really nodding off, I actually coaxed him into feeling tired by rubbing his belly and then running over to take the picture

UPDATE: Woo hoo! After many-a-entry this one just barely stole the photothursday vote.

the brady bunch

Jason — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:16:55 +0000

This week’s theme for photothursday was From a Vehicle. It gave me lots of chances to get strange looks from people as I snapped pictures of them and their cars as we drove by. But all the shots of the world outside the car came out rather uninteresting, so I tried takings shots of the inside of the car. I liked this one because it captured the “new image” of the American family: everyone piled in the car, but going nowhere in particular.

breakfast of champions

Jason — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:59:59 +0000

The 80s is the theme for this week’s photothursday contest. Even though I lived through it (and believe me I dressed and acted the part during that strange decade) I had a hard time coming up with anything that captured the theme. So, in came Wheaties which I certainly remember from my 80s days, but it doesn’t really fit since they came out in the 20s. However, there is one cool thing about the image which is that it was taken with my nifty little camera phone.

cocktail

Jason — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:50:54 +0000

This week’s photo thursday theme is motion which was the hardest theme for me thus far. “Cocktail” is a picture of Nance’s Shirley Temple (so technically not a cocktail, but cocktail is a cooler name). Not sure if it really captures the idea of motion, but it proved to be too difficult to take a blurred motion shot of a frisbee, which was my original idea, with my dinky Canon S400.

urban trees

Jason — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:24:13 +0000

This week’s theme for photo thursday is trees. As I started looking at trees around me I noticed that many of the trees I see around me in the city are dead ones that have been cut down and the re-erected. Hence, urban trees: