It always makes me smile to spot something that we used to take for granted but is now very hard to find. Remember when this was the only way to talk to someone if you weren't at home? Using actual cash. Coins even.
I picked up the receiver but there was no dial tone. Suppose it was too much to ask for it to actually work.
At the weekend the little one and I took our cameras out and went on a drive into downtown Phoenix. We ended up in the dodgy bit.
As you do.
I love taking pictures of old abandoned decaying buildings so was really quite happy snapping away when we stumbled across a tiny street with elaborately painted shopfronts. Finding diamonds in the rough like this is one of the best thing about photo walks.
Been a good week for my MacBook Pro. First up, the hard drive upgrade was easy and painless, thanks in no small part to the excellent Carbon Copy Cloner. Then I thought it was probably time to add another 4GB of RAM. Both things have given it a new lease of life.
Stormtrooper agreed that everything looked good. Now if only he could fit his head back out through the USB slot, how did he even get it in there to begin with?
If you're up and about at just the right time, you get to see something special.
MacBook Pro, Lightroom, export to jpg, Flickr Uploadr.
Because I know you were curious, I'm still flying the flag for Dr Martens boots. See?
Now granted they get a little less use during the summer here in the desert but I do what I can regardless.
Whenever I see someone else wearing them I give them the all knowing nod and wink. These days, and especially here in the US, you don't see that many people wearing them.
"Ah but that's because they suck and most people aren't stuck in a timewarp" I hear you cry.
I like to think it's because we're a special lot, with our DMs.
I like making up titles for the photos I take. Sometimes I just use the name of whatever song happens to be playing in iTunes at the time.
Recently, 'Ghosts Of Ladbrooke Grove' by Killing Joke was on and I thought that it made a good title for a photo. But instead of leaving it at the one shot, it appears to have turned into a whole thing now.
Last year I got an EF-S 15-85mm lens and it's by far and away the best lens I've ever used. Ever.
I love it. That is all.
Did I mention that I love it?
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