Saturday July 29, 2006 -- 8:17 a.m.
I screwed up yesterday and posted the wrong link to Fred's home page. I fixed it down there, but I also re-posted it right here. It's still down for some reason (what's up, Fred?) but I'll keep checking.
Matt K.
Friday July 28, 2005 -- 7:05 a.m.
I posted 6 new pinhole photographs in the pinhole photograph section, and re-posted two older photographs. You can see the new ones by clicking on one of the last 6 thumbnails, the older ones are buried in the mix somewhere since I post all my photographs chronologically.
I want to mention that these pinhole photographs were made possible by a gift from the awesome Fred D., who painstakingly handmade a pinhole camera for me from an old fixed-focus 35mm snapshot-style camera. Fred is amazing, and is taking this camera building thing to new heights. At the moment he is working on building an anamorphic pinhole camera which will take images that look like this. Cool, huh?
Fred also has a small personal page where you can see some of his paintings and photographs. I checked this morning and for some reason it seems to be temporarily down. I'll keep checking back, but in the meantime the link is here.
Matt K.
Tuesday July 25, 2006 -- 7:10 a.m.
We live in an apartment complex that has an interlocking series of small manufactured ponds. Most of the time they just sit there and ripple, although they do serve as home for a number of bullfrogs and small fish as well as the occasional traveling duck. One of these ponds is immediately behind our building, and if we stand on our balcony we can look down to the rocky shore not more than 20 feet away. This morning, as I sat checking some emails, I heard an uncharacteristic rustling from outside the screen door. I stepped out on the balcony to see what was going on and there, in the quiet dawn light, a female great blue heron had landed on the opposite shore. I was transfixed. We have a small pair of binoculars for birdwatching, so I grabbed them right away and spent nearly 15 minutes of the time I should have been showering simply watching the heron as it slowly and elegantly hunted along the pond's edge. It caught a large tadpole and two small fish before reaching the edge of the pond and, rather than continue on to some resident's cement patio, probably took wing and flew off to another pond or stream. It was a truly awe-inspiring way to begin this day.
Matt K.
Monday July 24, 2006 -- 10:11 p.m.
I'm back, knucklenecks.
Matt K.
