TorekimiFishEyeLens® Kit

Available at The Thing of the Moment Store.

299.99 with FREE shipping, and no sales tax outside of Maine. (Maine residents add 5%) (Panasonic FX01 not included)

SAMPLES HERE and HERE

Eye de la Fish

Inspiriation provided by the BRILLIANT torekimi who always thinks of things YEARS before I do.

Fisheye Lens by Home Depot
Fish Eye Lens Models: John Dionne, Sea Dog Brew Pub, and the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge.

Leather

Well...and plastic.

Posted for Macroday: Leather

Another Flower Macro for Abhi Jain (Wherever you are)

Posted for SeeItSunday: Purple

Paddy Murphy's, in O'Bangor, O'Maine

Also known as, 'We'll out-Irish you anyday, you real Irish, what with your unthatched rooves, and your houses not made of fieldstone, and your not wearing Irish Sweaters from morn til night and your not listening to Enya and Daniel O'Donnell and your not watching Riverdance on your licensed TeeVees after a hard day of digging rotting potatoes by HAND."

Yeah, we are WAY more Irish than you because this will be the SECOND Irish Pub opening in as many months. The other Irish pub, Cristof's conveniently located just a wee stagger about 100 feet away (one rotted potato toss). Please, watch the curb, you REAL Irish.

An update here.

Art Is Where You Find It

Or fruit...whatever....
 

Snapshot

I like to take photos of other photographers so I can sort of get a feel of what I look like taking photos. You know how it is. I know you do. And right now I'd say I must look pretty damned good.

Collar Button

I am SOOOOOOOOOO ready for "Macroday: Things invented in 1896 by Brook's Brothers Founder's grandson, John E. Brooks"

Bring it, Macroday!

Visual Progression

This is the part where I tried (in quiet desperation) to mimic Frank from :photoschau. For those still not in the know Frank or PhotoFrank is descended from a long line of Teutonic Princes. He putters away his days high up in a castle in Bavaria and with his line of hand made cameras and custom ground lenses he creates all these great abstract images and gives them these quirky little titles.

Despite earlier denials, I did actually make 2 New Year's Resolutions and one of them is to imitate (blatantly rip off) the style of other photographers as homage.

He Doesn't Look A Thing Like Jesus, But He Talks Like Gentleman,

Like you imagine when you were young... (The Killers, 2006)

So I'm lying in bed, unable to sleep, realizing that I have yet to post in for the New Year for you Gentle Viewers and I can't get this Killer's song out of my head. Well, that and it was playing on the bedside CD player. So I wondered how many photos of Jesus I had. When I realized how many I DID have, I said to myself, "Jesus!"
Additionally, I know what you Gentle Viewers Like. And that's Killer's Videos, Stacked photos of Our Lord Jesus Christ® looking out of frames into other frames like these 3 are 1/3 of a Brady Bunch Grid, and The Thing of the Moment references to earlier The Thing of the Moment Posts.
So without further ado as I have already adone enough giving you the first two things you like I giveth unto you THE SECOND BEST THING OF THE MOMENT POST OF 2006!

P.S. Looking back I see that without looking at (a),(b), and (c) for context it makes no sense at all. And only minimally more thereafter.

Yes, kids, don't forget that's: The Thing of the Moment - Forcing Insides Jokes on You Since 2004®

Or the more friendly: The Thing of the Moment - Where You're An Insider®

On New Year's Resolutions and Why You Are Gentle Viewers

First, I have no New Year's Resolutions that are different from any other day, let alone year, so now we can move on as to why you are Gentle Viewers.

Recently a friend mentioned that she wanted to call her Gentle Viewers something and I suggested Gentle Viewers because, well, it's always worked out nicely for me. She said she didn't feel like it would be hers so I assured her Gentle Viewers, like everything I do that is cool, it was stolen.

A quick Google of 'Gentle Viewers' shows me, me again, a comment I left and MANY references to Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but that is not from whence I lifted Gentle Viewers, no.

I stole it from Miss Manners, Judith Martin, and then corrupted it for my own evil purposes.

From the page: "Have you ever wondered what Miss Manners’ famous salutation of "Gentle Reader" actually implies? A writer in the June 1934 issue of The Atlantic Monthly distinguishes the gentle reader from the ordinary one; ironically, it is the gentle reader who has a fierce love for books:

An ordinary reader sits up at night to 'finish' a book. A gentle reader becomes so much a part of his book that he dreads the moment when it will be finished. An ordinary reader would think you mad if you suggested that he read the same book twice. A gentle reader, if he loves a book, loves it more and more on the second, the fifth, or the twentieth reading.

And, Allah so willing, THAT Gentle Viewers is you,

and The Thing of the Moment.

Happy New Year, Gentle Viewers.

(Mary Travers! CALL ME!
*Making the little phone gesture with my hand*)