Worth getting up for in November: the World’s Largest Operational Frying Pan; the new Gaslight Anthem record; 5:30 meeting; the new Mickey Haller / Harry Bosch novel (Michael Connolly’s Resurrection Walk); Ashley Winstead’s Midnight Is The Darkest Hour; Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake; Alix E. Harrow’s Starling House; federal holidays; Atlas Obscura; women’s college basketball; the…
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worth getting up for: october 2023
Worth getting up for in October 2023: the new Gaslight Anthem record; the new Dave Hause record; the new Ha Ha Tonka record; last year’s American Aquarium record, which I finally got around to; road trips; getting necessary work done on my car (despite the expense); paying off a big debt; leaves changing colors; knocking…
life list: charleston cemeteries
26. Take photos of every church cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina. Years and years ago, I put this on my Life List. It’s one of those things that’s hard to quantify but last summer, I did shoot a whole bunch of them and I’m going to call it good.
life list: edition outer banks stuff
101. Visit every US National Seashore. (Cape Hatteras National Seashore) 26. Take a photo of sunrise at every individually-named beach in North Carolina. (Frisco, NC) 58. Visit the top ten natural wonders in North Carolina. (Cape Hatteras) Three for the list! We had glorious sunrises every morning. The clouds made them unreal. I don’t post…
that’s what the torch committee’s for
Justin at links.net says the first post of the year should be thus, and so it is. 1. tales of new year’s festivities Spaghetti and meatballs, good wine, football, bad kitten cuddles, bed well before midnight, the end. 2. accounting for some unfinished business when did being a decent human being become political 3. envisioning…
life list: learn to make cheese
52. Learn to make paneer and mozzarella. I have wanted to learn to make cheese for absolutely ever, because I love eating cheese, and last night I had the chance to take a class in it! My friend Nina and I went to a hands-on cheese making class at Southern Season, taught by Leslie Chartier…
atlas obscura: elsewhere collective
The Elsewhere Collective is a … museum, of sorts, in Greensboro, and was our second stop of the day on Saturday. Their website explains it better, but it was an amazing place for a photographer.
adventures at home: greensboro science center
With college football season coming up, I’m trying to make the most of Saturdays before then. This led us to the Greensboro Science Center this weekend, because I wanted to see their aquarium, and they had a zoo, and it wasn’t a thousand degrees out for once. The zoo is small but well laid out…
life list: get a passport
93. Get a passport. I’d entirely forgotten I put this on my life list 9 years ago, but I finally got around to it this year. We even visited Canada! They didn’t look at our passports at all.
georgia aquarium
After years of frustrating aquarium photos, I scoured the internet for advice, bought a rubber lens hood for my 24-70mm 2.8 lens, and set everything to manual. And frankly, I think I did pretty well for a first real go at photographing fishes. Full set is here.
brand new kind of photography 