I have added a set of photos to my Flickr site with photos from the Micanopy Fall Harvest Festival today. The festival was definitely more crafty than artsy than in years past, and I prefer the latter so I wasn’t there as long as I otherwise may have been.
Author: craig
Goodbye Gallery, Hello Flickr
I made a decision yesterday to switch from posting my photos here on this site using the Gallery package to upgrading my Flickr account to “pro” status and posting my photos there.
Everything will eventually move, but that will take some time. I hope to come up with a solution so that someone coming in off an old bookmark or outdated search result will be properly redirected from here to at least the appropriate gallery on Flickr.
A cavalcade of cycling photos
October was a busy month for cycling photography and hey, I actually had my road bike out of the garage twice. Here’s the gallery list:
- Horse Farm Hundred – October 2. I drove a support vehicle that day, but I also stopped and occasionally took pictures.
- Strays ride the Feagles – October 8. The Strays group met up south of Lake City and rode some very scenic roads roughly in between there and High Springs.
- Strays ride from Hawthorne – October 29. The ride I try to lead at least several times a year out in my neck of the woods.
Enjoy!
Wilma meets Erin
I noticed Monday that my good friend Erin had posted photos from her neighborhood in Davie (a Ft. Lauderdale suburb) showing damage from Hurricane Wilma. I heard from her via e-mail Tuesday evening. This one was a Yahoo! Editors’ Pick. And this one was shown on CNN Monday afternoon.
They have no power and no phone (landline or cell), but their DSL link somehow stayed up and she was able to post these while her iBook still had charge left in it.
Butterfly Rainforest photos now online
As I noted on the description of the first gallery, a personal FAQ of the past year has been “Have you been to the Butterfly Rainforest yet?” I could have gone anytime, but there was one person I wanted to go with the first time and that confluence of schedules didn’t happen until July 16, 2005. So check out my photos from my trip with Dana to the Butterfly Rainforest.
The very next weekend, Mom came to visit and the day after we went tubing, I took her on a visit to the Rainforest and took another bunch of pictures.
And for those who don’t know, the Butterfly Rainforest is a wonderful attraction at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.
Cycling club Labor Day picnic photos posted
It was a good bike ride and picnic for the Gainesville Cycling Club today, here are the photos. I rode 33 miles with the Strays, my usual group. The last part of the ride was aided by a nice tailwind courtesy of tropical weather in the Atlantic off South Florida. My banana pudding disappeared very rapidly.
Summer Movie Round-up
It’s almost Labor Day, and I’ve been thinking of doing a wrap-up of Summer movies I’ve seen, so here goes:
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Yeah, it’s dark. But didn’t it need to be to set the table for A New Hope? - Mr. and Mrs. Smith
I often don’t even like Brad Pitt or his movies, but he was good here and it is a good movie. - Batman Begins
We arrived late and ended up sitting in the front row, which definitely detracted from the experience. I never knew Batman was a Jedi Knight. The story was most certainly crafted by someone very familiar with Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand too. Michael Caine was brilliant as Alfred. - Wedding Crashers
Another good turn by a guy whose films I don’t usually care for, this time Owen Wilson. I laughed “MAO.” Dana was practically rolling on the floor laughing too. I have never seen her laugh so much or hard. Vince Vaughn was excellent. We probably should have gone to see it again to catch the jokes we missed the first time around because of all the laughter. - Must Love Dogs
Diane Lane and John Cusack (two of my favorites) among others do romantic comedy very well. Perhaps not the laugh fest of Wedding Crashers, but it hit the mark.
Tubing photos
I’m a little behind on posting here, but I thought it worth mentioning that I’ve posted a couple of photo galleries from July tubing adventures at Ichetucknee Springs State Park.
On July 23, Andy and Joy brought Mom and the boys and we floated from Dampier’s Landing down to the South end take-out point. The photos were taken with a Fujifilm waterproof disposable film camera and processed and scanned to cd at Harmon’s in Gainesville.
On July 30, Dana and I got an early start and floated from the North end to Dampier’s Landing. These photos were taken with my Canon Powershot G1 digital camera using my new Aquapac waterproof case. Be sure not to miss the manatees.
Me, the podcaster
I wrote today at work about a recent quick project wherein I added a podcast to the Rock104 web site.
My friend Matt, the designer of the Rock104 site, asked me if he could use the code for AnRWatch.com, another site he’s involved with. I was happy to share the code, but it had to be rewritten in PHP first, which I did as a learning exercise. That ended up being easier than I thought it would be. AnR Watch is a monthly webzine that promotes new, unsigned rock bands.
I mentioned these projects to my friend Susanna, who I know is interested in podcasting since she’s both a musician and a web designer. She asked if she could use the code for podcasting sermon recordings on her church site. I sent her the code.
“Explaining” Red Hair?
There’s been a lot written in the press lately about the new book Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning and Sexual Power of Red Hair by Marion Roach.
I have seen acknowledged nowhere, however, that Tom Robbins explained “the problem of redheads” just fine in Still Life with Woodpecker.