A Woodsy Amble
Dear Mr. Miller,
Nice day for one — I hope you were out, too, ideally at the beach of which you recently spoke. I posted some pics.
Your Humble Servant,
A.K.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
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Dear Mr. Miller,
Nice day for one — I hope you were out, too, ideally at the beach of which you recently spoke. I posted some pics.
Your Humble Servant,
A.K.
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Admirably, you’ve been leaving the safe harbor of the indoors for the real world. Keep it up HS. I like eddy lines and I really liked it before I figured out that was a birch tree.
Comment by michael — March 30, 2008 @ 8:59 pm
I was out for an amble today, too. But your amble was better than mine. Today was an Insufficient Energy day, one of the few Boulder ever has. (Maybe these are the 65 out of 365– 66 out of 366?)
Comment by rakkity — March 30, 2008 @ 9:14 pm
Those were pretty incredible. I only take issue with the title “pseudocrystal”, because it IS (or was at that time, anyway) a crystal. And I don’t understand the title “ubiquitous”, but I am fascinated by how it seems like the reflection started in a second place, as well as the reasonably obvious place close to the top. (One problem is that I don’t know if there’s a way to make my computer automatically show these at the best possible resolution to fit on the screen … because I sorta think that these might be better when you don’t have to scroll around to see them. And that might be why the place towards the bottom of ubiquitous interested me so much though, that I couldn’t see both places at once.)
Comment by jennifer — March 30, 2008 @ 10:51 pm
This is why Mike never takes verticals … We view these on horizontal-aspect-ratio screens, so I either make them smaller — arguably reducing the impact — or one is forced to scroll a bit. On my screen, 12″ at 72dpi just fits, though I do have to scroll initially to get it all into view at once, given the page layout. There are lots of different screen resolutions out there, though — I’d be interested in an informal vote, ’cause it’d be no problem to make them smaller.
Comment by adam — March 31, 2008 @ 6:58 am
I struggle with this size issue all the time, but I have to say that most people out there, and I’m talking about good photographers, settle with smaller images. That’s my vote too, though I have trouble restraining myself. The pics I post are usually Flash formatted and therefore resizable to your window. But how small to make them? Maybe 800 pixels?
I like this woodsy amble theme. I wish I’d ventured out for a few photos myself. I like rakkity’s pics… but those gray skies… isn’t that what a normal sky looks like most of the time?
In the interest of full disclosure, Adam sent me those pics but did not ask me to post them and he did not sign his name Humble Servant. More of my made up world.
Comment by michael — March 31, 2008 @ 8:08 am
HS is hardly inaccurate, though … And they were offered as valid blog fodder, even if that weren’t explicitly stated. At least, sent to you with full awareness of the likelihood, your track record and predilections being well known.
My next batch (scheduled for, oh, maybe August at my pace … ) will be smaller. I don’t promise to eschew verticals though …
Comment by adam — March 31, 2008 @ 8:44 am
Oh, this is funny (to me anyway). I missed the sign-of and decided HS was for “Hot Stuff” and thought it was, well, the opposite of humble, but not totally undeserved.
Comment by jennifer — March 31, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
Remember the vintage Mac that had a screen you could choose to be high and narrow or rotate it 90 deg to be narrow and wide? Like the iPhone! That’s what we need for those chimney-aspect shots: a rotatable screen. Like Adam, I’m often torn between forcing the user to scroll or using lower resolution.
Right now I’m trying to find a way to rotate the pictures in a movie 90 degrees from horizontal to vertical. Can you do that Mike? I hate to force the Noble Bloggers to turn their monitors or their Barca loungers sideways.
Comment by rakkity — March 31, 2008 @ 10:51 pm
“Impaled”, I forgot to say, is a cool picture with an even cooler moniker.
Comment by rakkity — April 4, 2008 @ 5:58 pm