A Tree in Ice Blah Blah Blah

Although the Kodak Duaflex has a hard time picking up details like the thick coating of ice.

ICE?

NEW ALTERNATIVE LENS PROJECT!

A Tree in Winter Blah Blah Blah

Taken through the viewfinder of a Kodak Duaflex II

Another in a series of The Thing of the Moment's neverending quest to take photos through alternative forms of lenses for God kows what reason.

Cotton Candy Pink

A tasty snack or effective house insulation.

Posted for Thursday Challenge: Pink

George Ficus Benjamina Bush

Posted for Lensday: Green
Posted for Lensday: Green (Again)
Posted for Thursday Challenge: Green
Posted for PhotoSharks: Plant
Posted for Macroday: Green

I'm IT!

I found the city health department attached one of these to my apartment door this weekend.

One word: 'norovirus'.

You can have your little eboooooooolas, and your little anthraaaaaaaaxs, but I survived (barely) the dreaded norovirus with it's sharp teeth and long fangs! Rar!

Posted for Moody Monday: Toxic.

Note to coworkers: I'll be back to work tomorrow but NO LICKING ME! (for 2 weeks anyway)

Just Like Candy!

Frosted Mini Wheats SEEM healthyish until you see it up close.

Submitted for Macroday: Sweets

Best Buy - Best.Service.Ever!

This post is ONLY to contrast the service received at Bangor Photo, our local Mom and Pop photo joint, and the evil Big Box joint.

Evil Big Box Joint rules! And not just because did what they said they were going to do in less time than the reasonable amount of time they said it would take. But because on a Saturday when the store was FULL of people in line behind me, they stopped what they were doing and listened to my issue, took down the info, and sent my camera out. Then when I went to pick it up. They just handed it to me.

They didn't act like I was bothering them for asking for assistance or STUPID for ummm...requiring the camera to NEED service (which I was).

Viva la Big Box store!

USCG Bridle or Tackle

I'd be able to tell you for sure but I didn't have a camera with a better zoom this morning. (The batteries were dead in my Canon Powershot S2, the Canon Rebel XTi is in the shop for reasons I'd rather not discuss until I get it back, and I can't get film developed for the Holga CFN120 or Kodak Brownie 2 so I just had the little Panasonic FX01*) It's ONE of them though.

The Bridle is from Southwest Harbor and the Tackle is from Rockland. I have tried to wrangle every Coast Guard connection I have to get a ride on one of them, but alas. This is as close as I could get today.

Breaking Ice on the Penobscot River. 7:10am, Temp: -7 Degrees F

* Camera talk provided for torekimi who thinks it's HOT and can't get enough of it.

Sunrise at 10 Below

Posted for Tuesday Challenge: Sunrise

(DO click on this to make it bigger, just once)

J·K c LOVE

Submitted for Macroday: Engraved

As I go about my travels with my little Brownie Camera in hand I like to collect testimonials in an orgy of vanity to help define myself as a photographer through the eyes of my Gentle Viewers.

The lastest and most accurate?

"He takes photos because he has a camera."
- Carlo Ferroni of Macroday.

Melting Ice

Another in a series of The Thing of the Moment's photos taken through alternative lenses.