Category: Jerry Photos

I had an interesting time with this, for the life of me I could not get the camera to auto focus on this. I would take it off of AF and try to manual focus which wasn’t happening either. As I started to contemplate using a different lens I noticed that they had a ‘macro’ comment on the lens which said 1 m given I was significantly closer than 1 m from the rug I quickly backed out and here the photo was.

It is Jan in Illinois, it is a historically warm winter, but it was just below freezing and there was water rushing on both sides of me. I took all these photos while wearing gloves.

When I was younger I would shoot a roll of film, save up some money and get it processed (and buy some more film.) There was a delay between when I took the photo and when I saw the photo. Interesting things would happen and I would wonder ‘now what the heck did I do that?’ Now with digital cameras the feedback is so fast I see the image and realized what I did. This time it was a happy accident but it will be deliberate in the future.

Okay, so here is the deal. I HATE taking pictures where people can ask me what I am doing, srsly it creeps me out. I wanted to do something at work cause Groupon has a lot of green. I brought my camera for a week but I never found the time to go get some photos.

It is also January here in Illinois, so not a lot of green outside… except it is unseasonably warm. So I went for a little walk to see what I could find and I found some moss on a log. Boom Green Accomplished!!

I have a 2 hour each way commute each day. I try to spend as little time as possible in the trainstation. But today I decided to spend a little more time there. I feel very uncomfortable taking pictures in ‘public’ so I took the late train and arrived before it did to minimize the number of people around.

A decade or so back I added up the cost of my failed resolutions and then I stopped trying. Srsly I could have gotten something I really liked instead of all this exercise equipment and gym memberships.

We have 2 cats Rocky and Wilbur, getting a decent picture of either them turned out to be really challenging. I had to work with poor light and demanding subjects. As you can see Rocky has had enough of my crap.

Me with our Christmas Tree… I probably should have smiled, but I was doing 3 things at once. I am surprised given how low the light was that I am in focus and NOT a blurry blob.