Next week: "Tempus Fugit"

Tomorrow : "Connect the dots".

/rl

Cory's Door

Back in 1926 they built this fine building for St. Joseph School here in Downers Grove. The building now has various new additions and renovations, but they were nice enough to keep all of the ornateness of the doors on the original wing.

Why don't buildings look like this these-a-days?

Ryan's "Door(s)"

These ones are one way - enter only:

From Omaha's Holy Sepulcher Cemetery.

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Mike's "Door"

When is a door not a door? Answer: When its a jar. The old post office building in South Omaha has a side door that is bricked up.



I found this weeks topic fun. There are lots of doors. I never really thought before about how different they all are. I discovered that some back doors are more interesting than the front! Though a little more foreboding, they seem to have more character.

Craig's Doors

We've got a new building at work, it's got a lot of doors, and almost all of them look like this.

Seven floors of doors, all made of wood.
They slide and they glide, and close pretty good.

There, a poem. For my doors.

Next Week: "Connect the Dots"

Door(s) due tomorrow! (Please, no fat dead guys in bath tubs!)

/rl

Craig's Acronym

A pedant would say that an acronym requires that the abbreviated combination of letters be pronounced as a word. SCUBA. RADAR. FUBAR. U.N.C.L.E. And so on. I am not that pedantic, as I feel common usage has changed the meaning of the word to include things like IRS, WKRP, and TLA. Luckily, my submission works either way.

I work at a place that goes by the unfortunate three letter moniker of "ANL". Unfortunate, because even if you don't pronounce it like a word, you're still pretty much saying "anal".

This amuses me to no end.

That's the type of guy I am.

A former division of this ANL place was the Pulsed Neutron Source. PNS.

The ANL PNS.

Again, this amuses me to no end. Yes, I know. This is why I don't have children.

In an attempt to make the name less embarrassing, they called it the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source. This leads people who think like I do to go down one of two roads.

1) The Intense PNS.

2) The iPNS. New from Apple.

Regardless, I'm giggling all the way down either road.

I'm not sure what a sweating cylinder has to do with intense pulsed neutrons, but this is the logo found on a ruler that was some shwag from the now defunct division.

The ANL iPNS ruler. For measuring... something.

I'm sorry.

Cory's Acronym

To find a good acronym, one needs to look no further than the world of computing. My officemate was reading RFC 4391 (Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB)) last week, and when he started complaining of ill-defined acronyms I knew I had found my winner. This isn't a particularly photogenic shot, but it sure is chock-full of acronyms.

Ryan's "Acronym"

SCUBA, or Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, is extremely useful when you need to work on the bottom of a pond.



One of the subdivisions I manage had a pipe in the pond that needed to be capped. At one point it contained electrodes for a depth sensor that controlled the well that fills the pond. That system has been removed, leaving a pipe that threatened to drain the pond.

I asked a friend who leads a nearby volunteer fire department's dive team to help me out. For some reason he and a friend were all excited about going swimming in 40 degree (F) water....

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Mike's "Acronym"

This company in Millard always intrigued me because I could never figure out what the letters B.I.G. stood for. I even went to their website, and some others that showed up in Google to try an figure it out. Still. It has periods, it must be an acronym, or the joke is on all of us!



I also checked the German cemetery at 138 & Harrison for an R.I.P. given the season, but Germans don't seem to do tacky things like that on their markers. I did not realize how many old markers were in that cemetery. You should visit, and take a camera.

- M. Mueller

"Door(s)" next week!

PYAT! *

/rl

*(Post Your Acronyms Tomorrow)

Cory's "Trees for the Forest"

There are a number of trees that overhang my house, and sometimes I feel like I need to clean the gutters out every single time it rains. But here's a corner I haven't gotten to for a while - right up next to the house it doesn't really contribute to clogging much. These are the little trees that I've been growing all summer for the forest. I guess it will be time to transplant them soon.

Ryan's "Trees for the Forest"

Quentin and I went wandering at Heron Haven, a little nature preserve in Omaha. At times it was difficult to see the forest for the trees (although the snow played a part, too):




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Mike's "Trees for the Forest"

I suppose I should be out taking pictures of fall foliage. My daughter and I are going to do that this week if the sun comes out.

Ideas for this one popped into my head all week. Like, the garage where I can't find anything. I decided to apply it to what I do for a living. I'm a computer nerd.



Sometimes, when you have worked on a project for hours, the answer is simple, but you can no longer see "The Trees for the Forest". The function only returns the word "Forest" because it has an error in it.

Craig's Trees For the Forest

We have a new building at work. It borders a forest preserve. Right outside my window, I see a giant oak tree (behind a chain link fence). It has these balconies on floors 2 through 6 that look out over the preserve to the north. It's quite a pretty view.

I had a hard time deciding which shot I liked best. In my runners up, I like this one because it shows the line between the forest and the building pretty nicely. And this one I like because it shows the leaves changing (and I love using my 300mm lens).

But I'm throwing in with this one. I think I like this one best because of the sky. Thus, I present my Trees for the Forest. Without them, Waterfall Glen would be a pretty weird forest preserve.

(Fun fact: Waterfall Glen is not named such because it has a waterfall. It was, in fact, named Rocky Glen, but was renamed in honor of Seymour "Bud" Waterfall.)

(Funner fact: I'm not making that up.)

Mike has taken control!

(but I know where he lives..)

Mike and I have discussed getting a hostname for this blog, but never followed through. From the email I just received, it seems he picked up weeklyphotography.org:

_____SNIP______
Its set up, and it looks like the DNS has populated... that does not mean it has populated everywhere yet, so if you hear of any problems, let me know and I will back the change off...

http://www.weeklyphotography.org/

http://weeklyphotography.org/

and

http://weeklyphotography.blogspot.com/

Should redirect here.


ha ha ha ha, I'm in complete control !!! (well, OK anyone with admin can change it back to the way it was)

____UNSNIP____

We didn't discuss this with anyone else, so speak up if you don't like it.

Thanks Mike!

Back to your regularly scheduled photo contest.

/rl

Next week : "Acronyms"

"Trees for the forest" due tomorrow.

/rl

Q's post-911

Much like Cory, I've got to make this a place-holder post. I've spent the past few days in Vancouver, B.C. and haven't been able to put any thought into my photo. Soon, though. Soon.

Craig's Post 9/11

I wanted to go take pictures of airplanes and trains, but that's been problematic for the past 8 years for some reason.

Cory's Post 9/11

Lis, Maddy, and I headed up to Minneapolis this last weekend to visit Mary, Sandy, and Will for a few days. On the way I saw this weird trailer go past, and on it was an even weirder sticker. I don't really know what it means: If you threaten us with a revolver, we won't call the police? We'll threaten you with our revolver instead of calling the police? If you have a heart attack or your house is on fire, we'll give you a revolver instead of calling for help? I just can't quite make sense of it.

Whatever the case, when I saw it and managed to get a picture, I turned to Lis and said "That's gonna be my 'Post 9/11' picture!" Had I planned ahead far enough I would have sent myself a postcard on September 11 and then taken a picture of the postmark (Get it? Ha!), but I think this little sticker nicely embodies the subject at hand.

Ryan's "Post 9/11"

I had planned to take a photo similar to this one, but with the Bill of Rights rights burning instead of the demonic Sudoku from hell. Unfortunately I forgot to take a copy of the Bill of Rights with me... so much for my political statement.

Instead, I give you a red tree. As much as the September 11 attacks affected the United States (and the rest of the world) life goes on. The seasons have continued to change.


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Michael's "Post 9/11"

After 9/11 the Department of Homeland Security was formed. A division of that department is “Rural Addressing”. Counties were ask to replace their ambiguous “rural routes” with grid type street mapping based off the county seat or some other large city in the area. Even the dirt road leading down to our farm in the sand hills now has a street number.

The department has asked counties to use large legible green signs with reflective white lettering. Though not a mandate, this is their suggestion and what they will help fund. I do not know if I drove far enough to find a newly marked intersection for this picture, but I thought it interesting that a newer marker had been put up, yet the old remains.

Beware terrorist cells attempting your startup on some out of the way pig farm. We know your address.

"Post 9/11" due before bed tonight!

Many apologies for being late - I was out of the reach of the interwebz this weekend.

Let's do "Trees for the Forest" next.

/rl