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silent snow

January 8, 2011


silent snow
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

It is harder than I thought to choose just one for some days.

Lovely sweet snow last night, easy to clear away this morning, but so quiet! and the weather still enough that the snow stays where it sifted down onto the branches of trees.

I rode Image outside today. He was silly with snow and cold, snorting and bucking when we cantered.

trees at Smith

December 20, 2010


trees at Smith
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I have not one but TWO new cameras!!

One is a reasonable extension of the last camera, another nice little Cannon with more megapixels in the image and much better light handling. It is really clever, actually. It can tell when a person is smiling, and take a picture, which we, of course, tested. Aerin decided it had to do with white at the mouth, and made it go by flashing a small piece of paper under her nose. I spent a while trying to get it to do fancy things with color, and it has done well with some outdoor shots.

The second one is odder. I got a new phone when the old one was in the bag that got stolen. Al talked me into a smart phone, which I’ve been discovering slowly. I love (lovelove) being able to get a weather radar anytime, so I can see when it is going to rain, or snow, on my head. I like the gps functions so I get less lost. It has a camera, which isn’t bad.

But because it is really a computer that makes phone calls, it can manipulate the camera images in unexpected ways. So there is a Retro Camera app, that takes pictures and processes the resultong images in ways that makes them look like they have come from a polaroid, or a brownie, or a pinhole camera. There are two others, but I don’t recognize them. I have been enjoying taking pictures of winter trees using these older ways of seeing.