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seems all around the newspaper world, people are getting unanticipated vacations

Bellringer

This is one of those photos that look fine on the screen, but I have doubts that it will print well.

Yes, I am annoyed, phrustrated even

One year in 40 seconds

This isn't mine, of course, but it occurs to me had I started doing exactly this the day I was born (too precocious?), my life would run its course in 40 minutes. Incidentally, the audio track really adds to this video


One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Content | chrisbrogan.com

40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Content | chrisbrogan.com

always a good idea to write and shoot killer stuff, right?

Fog lights

I like those shots that come unexpectedly, when it’s hit-and-mostly-miss to capture the essence of the scene. And then I like discovering there was more there than it seemed. So, here, a foggy night at the town wharf and a camera sitting in a puddle because that was the flattest surface.

Ebb tide

The tide has turned and is no longer flinging water over the wharf although people still drive out to check boats or just to get a little closer to the pounding surf.

There's quite a difference between this night shot and the last at the full moon. Perhaps I should take one shot a day for a year and put them on a new blog called A Deck a Day, or maybe What the Deck?

Autumn gale

It's blowing hard here and fishing boats sheltered behind the wharf are frequently inspected by fishermen who drive out to see whether the lines are holding.

Getting the 'feel' took a shutter closed down to f20 and an ISO of 50. Time was 1.6 seconds

October full moon

Since I've been remiss lately about adding photos to this blog, here's a shot from last week's full moon. It snuck up on me and was suddenly shining through my window, but the camera was handy.

Elms in the early morning

The tall elms seem to lose their leaves early in the fall, their flatter tops bare above the town tree canopy. This photo is for students in Indiana...oops, apologies, that's Idaho..who were wondering about trees in Nova Scotia, particularly Dutch elms.

(Gotta get those abbreviations straight)

Clouds high…and low

The fog you can see climbing the hillside in the distance now is lying thick over the area, but the sun was out for a brief while an hour ago revealing billowing clouds over the surrounding hills.

But colour or black and white?

Day's last light

Yesterday was as hot and muggy as it gets hereabouts—and that means someone misplaced the Gulf of Mexico weather. As uncomfortable as the high humidity was, it did contribute to massive cloud formations that were still catching daylight as the earth below settled into night.

39 Steps

No, not the Hitchcock movie. Just one step for every year. Did you notice that it's 39 years ago today that Neil Armstrong took that "first small step"?

What's that in dog years, howling at the moon-wise?

An end to obesity

The Conference Board of Canada issued an interim report yesterday that provided a report card on the nation and the grade for health has slipped a bit, mostly because of the growing incidence of obesity. The board's point is that today's young people are the first generation in some time that are likely to be less healthy than their parents.

I'd debate that if only because I haven't been young for some time and outweigh my father by far too much. The generational thing happened some time ago, I'd say.

However, it occurs to me that this design, if printed on a plate, might discourage me from cleaning it off at every meal and thereby reduce my caloric intake. Can a plate be considered a health device?

This poster comes from the 'inspiration series' on Veerle's Blog

Keeping my hand in

Down on Digby's wharf this morning I thought about just taking one or two photos and letting the digital recorder give three or four minutes of ambient sound. But sometimes interesting stuff happens. Did you know those electric chair scooters can go to Point Prim and back from Digby (I do expect you to know Point Prim)

Creative juices

Dunno yet whether this will open a window here, but perhaps if you press down hard on your screen? No, not that hard!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgYwTELj-fs

well, damn, it didn't even create a link at first, but there that's got it, the apple's on the tree now and all that agricultural babble. ;^)

Soundslide look at BBC visit to Weymouth Consolidated

Louise Stewart visited the penpal class Monday at WCS. Here are a few highlights:

White birches, yellow fence

A day of sprinkles and insipid showers, rain that couldn't quite justify the term. These trees and the fence benefit nicely from the diffuse light

So You Want To Be An Editor

"The trick in editing lies in willingness to raise obvious, simple-minded questions."

It occurs to me that my simple mind should have brought me to even more rarified heights of editing. Obviously, there must be more to the job, and for that I turn to John McIntyre of the Baltimore Sun. "Click here"

For those who wonder how I wound up in the job, despite my frequent inability to spot either the obvious or the poorly hung participle, I can only surmise that I was 'volunteered' to get me out of the ranks of lazy reporters.

'Click here'

I know I'll forget this advice if it isn't written down and it occurs to me that this is a good place to do that. Simply put, if you want readers to follow a link, the thing to do is tell them precisely what they need to do. So click here becomes the best approach. On Blogger, it's as easy as highlighting the two words and clicking on the link symbol, whereupon a drop-down box asks for the URL. I know it won't be that obvious on the company website, but I live in hope (although not Hope, B.C., which apparently is in the lush Fraser Valley).

Colour or not?

So, it was the subtle colours of dawn this morning that made me try to capture them. That never seems entirely successful, so I actually get to be a little phrustrated this morning.

But then I had to go and try a black and white version.