The doctors have made their pleas to Big Insurance, we remain admitted and inside staying warm while a freak (for Aiken) snow storm dumps the white stuff outside.
Every year the city lights up the nearby Hopeland Gardens and tonight was one of our semi-frequent visits to the event. We just went ahead and walked the 1-1/2 mile, one way trip over, which makes more sense than driving a mile to park the car and ride the 2 miles on the mandatory shuttle bus. I took along the camera using my walking stick as a monopod. It is amazing how hard it is to hold that combination steady for the 3 to 4 secs of required exposure, even with propping it against the something. To overcompensate I tried some intentional movements with only a couple of minor successes.
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Sure hasn’t upped the quality here….
Taken April 17, 1995 at a Master’s Tournament Practice Round. The sureal look is courtesy of Seattle FilmWorks. You mail them a roll of their film, they develop it and send you back prints. For a few dollars more they digitize the photos and send them to you a 3-1/2 floppy disc.*
*Not anymore. Seattle FilmWorks stopped doing this kind of thing around 2001 and then changed their name to PhotoWorks. In 2008 American Greeting bought PhotoWorks and now they are like any other company that lets you upload photos and have them developed or turned in mugs for gifts…
Back in the day we used to take pictures, get them developed and place them in photo albums. When we first went digital, a step was added to the process, upload them to an online service. Somewhere along the line that extra step was eliminated and the consequence of that is now there are no physical images to bore your friends and neighbors. All the photos are mere ones and zeros on a hard drive.
A couple years ago I found an online place that mashes up the photo development and photo album into a full color bound book and we have made several of them from our vacations.
We took a 2 week trip back in April and I just now got around to making a photobook from the pictures. I made it for us to put with the rest of our vacation memories, but you too can own those memories, buy one for yourself for Christmas. Or if you are cheap, just check out the gallery here on mr-miata.net.
We drove down to HHI last night because I have to do a little Hilton Head Condo Rentals web page updating. Some photos needed to be taken, units removed and dates updated. We will be meeting Donna the Condo Queen for dinner, but until then we are going to do some geocaching of course. We watched the beginnings of sunrise from the balcony of the condo we were staying in, then took a nice walk on the beach as the day began in earnest.
The sky over the water to the east was just awesome this morning:
If you looked to the opposite direction, you got another pretty good show, a double rainbow:
I’m cheating and posting a Saturday entry on Sunday because we didn’t have internet at the condo. The choice was between high speed net access or ocean front condo, a no brainer, ocean front wins every time…