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Because Thursday night is grocery night!

Oil slick...

... in the Wal-Mart parking lot. A little different from this one.

Waiting in the Snow

It's weird to be posting this photo today because it got up into the 50's today and all the snow is gone. But this was taken only yesterday when the temp was in the single-digits. I thought it was striking that this lady was waiting for the bus and finding a touch of warmth in a shaft of light coming between two buildings.

Tree in Frost

It was 6 degrees this morning. Now it's 45. This is the same scene as this from last Spring.

Greenbrier County Dawn - Part 2

Greenbrier County Dawn

Once more, I get out before daylight to travel on location. The rising sun often compensates for the lack of sleep.

Harbinger of What?

A robin?... in the middle of the coldest February on record? The world is doomed I tell ya.

Produce Blogging #72

Because Thursday night is grocery night!

Spooky Arcade

Ding Dong

So much trouble went into this sign that I have to assume the home owner wanted it this way. It would have been easier to install a new doorbell button.

A fire escape...

... can be beautiful too. I've been back from San Francisco for a week but I haven't shot much around home. The weather is just soooo crappy. All I see is grey, grey, grey. But I've got a bunch of these California shots left!

San Francisco Architecture

I didn't shoot anything today, but here's some more San Francisco architecture... I've got plenty of that lying around.

Tarmac Dawn

Produce Blogging #71

Because Thursday night is grocery night!

Lucky Snow

I needed to shoot some snow pictures this week... boy was I lucky.

Super Bowl Sunday....

... at the mall. I don't really care much about football so I think it's a good evening to go out to eat.

Harry's Sign

San Francisco is one of the most annoying cities ever. You can't go a block without getting panhandled at least twice. You get panhandler burnout really fast... but I gave Harry a dollar because the laugh was well worth it.

Self Parking

Blondie

Blonde eyebrows, there's something you don't see every day.

Produce Blogging #70

Because Thursday night is grocery night!

In this first shot, that's actually me over in the corner. I caught myself in the mirror behind the vegetables without realizing it.

Powell Street is San Francisco

Gulls In Flight

Last week I posted this kinda freaky shot of a sea gull in flight. As you can see below, I shot a lot more. Why? Well... because I could. As I mentioned in this post, I recently bought this new Nikon 18-200 VR lens. VR stands for "vibration reduction". In addition to the VR technology in the lens, it also has internal focusing which makes it focus very, very quickly. My Nikon D200 camera has a setting that allows you to set the auto-focus to "continuous"... so if you keep the focus-spot trained on a moving object, it will try to keep that object in focus until you shoot. I had never owned a camera/lens combination before capable of such feats as this. The birds were flying all over the place and I could barely keep them in the frame but somehow, the camera was able to keep them in focus an awful lot of the time. What fun! I can't wait to try it out on sports and other fast moving targets.

From Appalachia to Downtown San Francisco

Well, I just can't get away from it. Everywhere I go, there it is, the John Amos Power Plant. Recapping the story thus far... I've posted several photos of the plant here on the blog... I saw this in New York City.... and then I saw this again near Poca, WV. The photo above was taken a couple of days ago in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

SFMOMA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. You can't shoot pictures of the art, but they don't mind if you shoot the architecture. Nice building. Too bad the most interesting parts were closed off the day I was there.