BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Technorati has a new beta feature: blogs with authority on topics. I, of course, checked out my site on certain topics to see if I am an ‘authority’. I am the second highest authority on photography after Tim Bray ahead of Heather Champ. A big surprise there. I am eleven in technology, after Doc and Meg and Scoble but before Dave Sifry, himself. […]
I thought I would point you to several photos being uploaded to Weather Underground, here and here now associated with search and rescue in New Orleans as well as the coast of Mississippi. One of the photos shows Gulfport, or what was left of the town. When I drove to Florida this last spring, I had planned on staying […]
Here it is, the week before Labor Day weekend and I only now find out that the Missouri Botanical Gardens have been open to 8pm every Wednesday between Memorial Day and Labor Day. At least last night I was able to go and attempt a little dusk photography–helped along by finding the part that attaches […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In 1927, the rain kept falling in the Mississippi delta. Folks would look at the sky anxiously, hoping for a break, but none came. Those who lived near the Mississippi, well they knew he was a cantankerous old bastard and could turn on they any old time. They’d watch the […]
I am not a sentimental person. Oh, I think I had traces in that direction at one time, but I’ve lost them over time. Weblogging has helped, because I’ve seen sentimentality practiced as an artform in weblogging. The more I see of it, the more I turn away from it. It’s like eating cotton candy–a […]