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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Pics from Sydney, at last!



Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Frozen Lake Michigan

I went for a walk to the lake today. This was a first for me this winter, because of travel, cold weather, and plantar fasciitis. I have never seen it looking like this before.

Monday, March 02, 2009

Incredible Story - Pause for 10 minutes and Watch



The story of our visit to the site where Hilda's grandparents were murdered by the Nazis is online here.

Sunday, March 01, 2009

The Power of Dreams

While packing to go to Australia I dropped a small accessory viewfinder (for a 15mm wide angle lens for my Leica) in the walk-in closet I use as the storage place for my camera gear. I was in a hurry, so I glanced around in a perfunctory fashion, did not find it, and made a mental note to look for it when I got back.
Seven weeks later I returned, and started looking in earnest. Could not find it. I moved everything on the floor of the closet (tripods, empty camera bags, tools, extension cords, etc)
I emptied a couple of drawers, just in case. No luck.
Last night I dreamed that I found it on an upper shelf of the closet, in a drawer. It had been slightly modified - a parallax correction screw had been added. Nice.
This morning when I awoke I went to my closet - and it it was not there!
I then looked on the upper shelf - there was no drawer, and the viewfinder was not on the shelf - at least, not near the front. I emptied the shelf, and there was the viewfinder, right at the back, under a tangle of old USB cords. I have no idea how it could have bounced there.
It did not have the parallax correction screw.
Hmmm