8/365 - 5/28/2009 Wyoooooming: It was really hard to pick my picture for the 28th. We’d driven through Montana and Wyoming this day, and the scenery was gorgeous, to say the least. I’ll post the rest of the roadtrip pictures up here soon. even the ones taken from the moving car were great. The landscape in this particular spot was very green and lush with rolling hills, but for some reason the B&W provided the effect I wanted…the enormity, the contrast. I was really happy with how this picture came out.
5/365 - 5/25/2009 That face!: In the late hours of the 25th, I snapped this picture of my darling cat. I was getting ready to leave on a trip that would leave me away from her for 5 or 6 days. I kept this as a memento, but certainly her face makes it hard to leave her behind!
6/365 - 5/26/2009: The 26th was a busy travel day. Originally I was going to fly from Albany to Seattle, via Chicago. This photo of a United Express CRJ was taken in Albany. Unfortunately those plans didn’t work out so great, so I found myself driving to Manchester and flying out of there—much later in the day and arriving in Seattle much later than I intended.
7/365 - 5/27/2009: This picture was one of my favorites taken this day. I was right outside the Boeing factory at Renton, WA, where they produce the 737 series. This guy had flown over and I got a lucky shot. I was amazed how clear it came out (not as great here because I reduce my photos before posting them). I love the contrast between the yellow Cub and the perfect blue sky.
May 24
4/365 - 5/24/2009 Mountain Road.: Sunsets have been a pretty common theme lately, but I promise I’ll diversify my portfolio of pictures soon. I think one thing that has spoiled me about living Vermont is the near-perfect sunsets every single night. The sun sinks down behind the Adirondacks in New York, providing an amazing backdrop. Here, there’s rolling farmland inbetween. Elsewhere, the dominating piece of the landscape (other than the mountains, of course) is Lake Champlain. For all the beautiful things I see on a daily basis, I have a deep appreciation for the fact that I haven’t yet become apathetic or take these things for granted.
3/365: 5/22/2009 Sadly still charger-less for my camera on this day. I was able to rectify that last night, thankfully. Once again, we get a decent by slightly grainy photo from my BlackBerry until the camera situation is squared away. I suppose to me at this point keeping up is more important than actually managing an amazing shot.
May 21
05212009: Unfortunately my camera battery is dead. Whats’ worse is…I can’t seem to find the charger! Furthermore, I’m leaving for a big trip Tuesday, and with a holiday weekend in between, this doesn’t bode well for me getting a new one. Turns out Canon charges an arm and a leg for them too! There are some cheaper off-brand ones, but I doubt I’d be able to find one in a retail store. Lame. I might have to take my old camera with me on the trip. It’s not bad, but certainly I would’ve preferred the Canon. Enough whining. It makes me happy that I live somewhere where after work I can throw my boat on the car, and head out for a half hour paddle. IT’s an amazing relief and release.
May 20
1/365: So, I’m finally sucking it up and attempting a to do a 365. Seriously. I failed at “Blog Every Day April” on my blog but I’m hoping I’ve have better luck with this. If anything, it’ll force me to use the camera and explore a little more. My first picture is a shot I grabbed tonight on a de-stress drive. Sometimes I feel lucky to live where I do because I can have the things I need within reach, but also I can get a breath of fresh air and removed from my surroundings in just a few minutes.
In a little more than a week I’ll be undertaking that great, 20-something right of passage of the cross country drive. I’ll be heading out to Seattle and helping a friend move back in a drive that will take me through Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and finally back to Vermont. In like 4 and a half days, too.
What I want to know is…how do people want to keep up with me? Do they even care. Well, even if you don’t care, I plan on generating some sort of output from it…but how? I’ve looked at it a few different ways:
I could post about my entire trip, as the trip happens via Twitter and Twitpic
I could blog about my trip, here, as it happens. Inconvenience of using blog would result in less frequent, but higher quality posts.
Blog, but only do one big summary at the end, or state summaries
Combination of blogging and tweeting.
My inclination would be the last item…to blog more substantial, interesting posts, some with facts and pictures, etc, and tweet anecdotal and more humorous stuff. Have any of you liveblogged anything like this?
One of the great things about the push towards social media is the number of outlets it gives us to be creative and interesting, one of the drawbacks being how do you decide what (and how many) outlets to use, and if anyone cares in the first place. If you have any commentary on this, please hit me up via twitter.
I hate to admit it, but from time to time I see some form of advertising that is SO COOL that I just want in.
Sprint has hyped up it’s “NOW” network in advance of the Palm Pre release. Some of you may have seen the commercial below, one of a series, which depict in a very visual way all the things going on on the Sprint network at this exact moment:
Well, to connect to the ad, Sprint has released a web-page that shows a whole ton of real-time information, always changing and highly interactive. Not only are the statistics interesting and sometimes mindblowing, but it’s a good way to kill 15 or so minutes. Check it out.
