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sunrise on 29th st

This photo was taken with my camera phone, so normally I wouldn't post it here on my artsy fartsy photo site. However, I love this photo, so I will.

deserted lot barrier

My stumbling rumbling foray back into photoblogging continues. This is some fun with backlighting on a side street in my neighborhood. Click photo for bigness.

dramatic tires

The guy that now owns the prison uses this building for equipment for his trucking company. Cool tire perspective.

vinny!

Couple of pictures of Vinny looking kind of sober but really cute. More smiles and laughs to come.

step back

cell block ruins

There were stalagmites hanging from the ceiling in most of these rooms.

chairs and door in color

theater chairs and wholey wall

doors various

I really love these photos from the prison. Had to use part of lunch break for this, but I really feel like posting them all at once!

sleeper

Before falling asleep in public, Herb always makes sure to sanitize his hands.

farm road

I just returned from Zanesville, the land where complete strangers wave at you when you drive by and where someone said to me "Them's pertineer wore off" and I understood them. As usual, I'm short on time, and even didn't have time to do even the modest improvements I sometimes try to do with Picasa before putting up a photo, but I just couldn't wait. I got permission from the new owners of the nearby Roseville Prison to go in and shoot photos, so I'm really itching to post those, too.

two sides of the story

I liked this shot because of the El Greco looking eyes on the priest being interviewed, the fact you can see both the cameras view and my view of the subject, and the fact that the cameraman looks like he has a third arm. However, this photo can certainly be helped a little bit by going under the digital knife, so to speak. I've hemmed and hawed about it for awhile, but I've decided I'm going to finally learn how to use Photoshop. I won't say one more word about it until the first time I post a Photoshopped photo, and I don't plan doing much in post processing... just a little here and there, just a little more than I used to do in a darkroom.

231st winter light

I've wanted to get a Holga for quite awhile. This is from my first roll that I've taken with it, but I shot most of them back in the winter. Film brings along with it a whole series of challenges, like where to get it developed and how to get it in digital form. 120 film isn't processed just anywhere, and then they charge quite a bit to put it on a disc. I probably should get a scanner if I'm going to do more of this kind of thing, but then which one to buy?, how much to pay?, will I use it enough?... blah blah blah. Then, of course this also reminds me that I still don't know how to post process photos, which becomes even more necessary when you are scanning from negatives. I'm not complaining, just kind of thinking out loud - well, technically not out loud unless the keyboard clicking counts.

orange shades

In the past week or so I got out for a little more street photography. I like some of the shots I got... the baby hiatus may have given me a fresh set of eyes.

weight of the world

Uluru Self Portrait

Also known as Ayer's Rock, Uluru is nearly dead center in Australia. It looks like sandstone or some other soft stone, but it's hard as iron. BTW, I'm the one waving.

tired guy

Can you find the tired guy? I understand how he feels. Taken right out of the "back door" of my building.

shirt applied

I don't normally put up photos I take with my camera phone, but this accidental application of some guy's t-shirt on the torn corner of a poster had to be documented. Other camera phone pictures (not as interesting as this one) can be found at www.bcpq.blogspot.com.