Photography

The Occasional Lake

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Behind my apartment is a low lying area that tends to flood whenever it rains. Which it has been doing all day. On top of all the snow that is, of course, melting. Our occasional lake has grown quite girthy. The layer of ice beneath the water makes it even more reflective than just plain water.

All this rain and the warmer temperature meant pea soup fog on the way home. That was kind of exciting. Everything was clear until I crossed the bypass and started out Hwy 45. Then, I hit a bank of fog and got a little disoriented. The road is a bit twisty and hilly in spots, which increased the excitement factor. Wheee!

Of course, I had to go outside and take pictures when I got home. The image at right is of trees reflected in the Occasional Lake. I increased the contrast and darkened it a bit in Photoshop, then flipped it upside down and cropped out everything but the trees.

Addendum: Oh my. The ghostly “face” that you (may or may not) see is not real. It’s just an optical illusion called pareidolia.

Art, Crankypantsing, Doodles, Meta

A New Doodle

Stonehenge Journal:  Doodle
Doodle
gel pen on 90lb Stonehenge paper
5 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches

I tried uploading this file to Flickr, and boy was that ever an adventure! Apparently, though I had to dig to find the information, they had a brain hemorrhage yesterday. Everyone’s photos are all kinds of jumbled up. What fun! I didn’t have any trouble uploading the file, but when I tried to add it to a set, I saw that there were other people’s images intermingled with mine. When I clicked on them, I was either taken to the correct photo or to yet another incorrect photo.

I thought someone had hacked into my account, but I thought I’d check the main page for information, just in case there was something wrong on their end. Bupkis. I checked the Flickr blog. Bupkis. I had to go to their “help via e-mail” page, which directed me to a discussion about the problem. According to Flickr’s official statement, the problem should have been resolved Saturday. Yeah, right. Their advice was to clear your browser cache, and all would magically be restored to its natural order. Uh-huh. Go on, pull the other one. Anyway, the first thing I did was clear my browser cache, ya’ assberets. And then I tried IE, Opera, and Netscape. And then, Flickr implodiated completely.

Oh, and now I see that they’ve finally decided to post about the problem on the Flickr blog. Heckuva job, guys.