David's "Christmas"

I had to cheat on this one and take it two weeks ago during a trip home to Kansas City.

Ti's "Christmas"

I heard something upstairs only to find Santa had visited, so I figured I better take a shot. Here it is.

Mike's "Christmas"

We have been empty-nesters for a couple years and got lazy about decorating for Christmas.
I took this while over at my mom's and thought it looked a lot like the art on a Christmas card.

Cory's Christmas

On Christmas Eve, we looked out the window and saw this hawk having a nice dinner in the yard across the street. This was kind of unexpected - my parents live smack in the middle of Omaha, nowhere near the wide open country that I normally see these birds in. But wow, this guy sure was enjoying his dinner. I watched somebody else from the neighborhood taking pictures before I did, and he just walked right up next to the hawk to do it. After seeing that I figured I didn't need to worry about scaring it away when I took pictures.

Ryan's "Christmas"

In past years we have had bitter fights over who puts Angie the Christmas Tree Angel on top of the tree.

This year Maddy won:




/rl

Next week: "Pile"

"Christmas" is due tomorrow.

/rl

Craig's Crapulence

Crap-u-lence: noun. 2. Excessive indulgence

Mike's "Crapulence"

I'm going to refer "crapulence" to my broth-in-laws comic books.  I was going to call it a collection, but un-bagged and un-backed, it's just more of an obsession that my wife and I are now feeling the hang-over from.
I have put the about a third of the more popular titles up on Picasa so you might understand the thousands of dusty moldy books we are trying to save or discard here.  He collected these books from about 1960-1970 joined the military, and never came back to Omaha to reclaim them.  We have been paying storage on them for about ten years.

Oh, it may sound sweet to inherit a bunch of 12 cent comics that are now worth $20-$200 bucks, but near three weeks of breathing these toxic comics spores, grading, bagging, scanning and photographing have left us rather tired and crabby.

Ryan's Crapulance...

Fresh hot crapulence! Come and get it!




/rl

Cory's Crapulence

I'm not sure which definition of "crapulence" this fits better - Craig's or Webster's - so I'll just toss it out there with no further comment.

Next week: "Christmas"

"Crapulence" is due tomorrow.

/rl

David's "Closed"

I was wonderfully surprised to learn of my grandfather's (mom's dad) old neighborhood recently, thanks to some research by my brother. St. Francis Seraph was the parish of my grandfather from his birth until sometime after he married and moved over to 34th/Central area of KC. The church was closed in 1991 as the parish was merged with others in the area. The rectory (burned to the ground a few years ago, photos to come) and the church buildings were sold to Phoenix Office Supply soon after.

Though most of the lower windows and the doors are secured someone has kicked in the rear door leaving the building wide open.

Ryan's "Closed"

Given his lack of thumbs, Fugs hates it when his 'nip is closed.




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Mike's "Closed"

Last Sunday morning I decided to do all my picture taking for both contest at one time.  Four topics.  As I worked my way North of Down Town, I found this road "closed" near the old Jones Street Brewery.
Wondering if its easier or harder to work with a brick street?  I am also uber grateful that I did not have to go out and shoot today!

Cory's Closed

The bus around here stops running at around 7:30pm, so I guess after that the bus stops are closed. But nobody goes around to lock them up at night. Maybe it's just an opportunity for people to come up with a good use for bus stop shelters at night? This one has a nice reading light, but it is built on a hill and kind of slanty, so it might not be pleasant to sit in all night.

"Closed" due tomorrow

"Crapulence" is next week's topic.

/rl

Ryan's "Film"

Back in the bad old days cameras ate a substance called "film." You would feed it a roll, take 12, 24, or 36 photos, extract the roll from the camera's tummy, and send it off to be processed. Some time later you could look at your pictures.

This view shows the winder and frame counter on my old F3. I love that camera, but haven't shot anything with it in a long time.



It looks like this is image number 35,359 on my D300. A 36 shot roll of Fuji Velvia costs $7.00. Processing would add another $10.00, so figure about $0.47 per frame. As mentioned by Cory, electrons are free. It would have cost me over $16,000 to do this on slide film. Wow...

I think I can justify buying myself a D3s now!

Or not.

/rl

Mike's "Film"

I think this is the third time I have taken a picture of this marquee.  Yet I have never been here to see a "film".
Film Streams is a non profit theater that shows classic films as well as independent films that would not usually be seen in Omaha because, well, Omaha is not used to such things.  The Dundee Theater would make attempts at this in years gone by, but not on this scale.

Cory's Film

My picture isn't on film or of film or anything, it's about film. This weekend was Los Alamos's Winterfest, where they do a bunch of wintery things. Part of it is a nighttime parade with floats from all of the local organizations and lots of county vehicles (garbage trucks, trolley buses, etc.) decked out in lights. It also included the local Shriners in their little cars (what parade doesn't?), and that's where the film part of this post comes in. I took my digital camera along and took oodles upon oodles of pictures of the dark parade knowing that at least one or two of them would come out alright. There's no way I could have done that with film - it would have cost a bunch in film, and the processing the pictures would have cost even more. But electrons are free and plentiful (and 100% recyclable!), so I got the above picture of a little car as it whipped past the bystanders in the background.

Tomorrow: "Film"

Tomorrow + 7: "Closed"

/rl

Craig's Crapulent Thanksgiving

I warned you.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.