Month: March 2020

I’m in week two of official Alachua County lockdown and, for the most part, people are staying inside, away from crowds, and not congregating in public places. As I take my daily walk every morning, it feels a bit like a ghost town: way less cars, no school buses, no kids. There are three schools and a park within a half mile of where I’m staying, so the absence of kids and their yells and bikes and all seems particularly noticeable. So when the challenge for last week was unveiled as “line from a song” it wasn’t too hard for…

Last week’s theme of “Books” was way easier than triangles. Whew! Books I have, and books my housemates have, so first I played around with the piles of books in the den. Some are mine, but most are theirs, although it’s hard to sort by owner since we all love traveling and the book titles show it. I played around with color saturation, trying to get the book in the middle, Biological Exuberance, to be the center of attention but I had too many other blue-hued books to make it work very well. I thought it would be a subtle…

Ah, the lowly triangle shape! It seems to be everywhere now that the week’s challenge is done but for seven days, all incarnations of the triangle conspired to hide from my camera. Seriously, it was like playing a game of hide and seek last week! I thought for half a minute that the cover photo (up at the top of this post) might work but the flags really aren’t triangles. I still like the image, though. Then I found a church steeple and spent so much time checking out angles and exposures that I was pretty sure an observer would…