Mmmmmm, thunder

[solarbird]

Oooh, just heard thunder. Cooooool.

(This is rare in the PNW. Everybody go ahead and point and laugh.)

It's really farking dark up here, too. And we're having power flickers. But not a lot of rain. I've been housecleaning all day, which is boring but also kind of pleasant. Here, have a flower picture to make it brighter wherever you are!


Okay, Everybody Smile!

Wednesday's token: 0.1
Thursday's mile: 1.0
Friday's miles: 3.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 468.5
Miles out of Rivendell: 8.7
Miles to Lothlórien: 453.3.


I took the colour quiz going around:



Your Existing Situation

Working to improve her image in the eyes of others in order to obtain their compliance and agreement with her needs and wishes.

Your Stress Sources

Feels that life has far more to offer and that there are still important things to be achieved--that life must be experienced to the fullest. As a result, she pursues her objectives with a fierce intensity that will not let go of things. Becomes deeply involved and runs the risk of being unable to view things with sufficient objectivity, or calmly enough; is therefore in danger of becoming agitated and of exhausting her nervous energy. Cannot leave things alone and feels she can only be at peace when she has finally reached her goal.

Your Restrained Characteristics

Remains emotionally unattached even when involved in a close relationship.
Circumstances force her to compromise and to forgo some pleasures for the time being. Capable of achieving physical satisfaction from sexual activity.

Your Desired Objective

Seeks success, stimulation, and a life full of experience. Wants to develop freely and to shake off the shackles of self-doubt, to win, and to live intensely. Likes contacts with others and is enthusiastic by nature. Receptive to anything new, modern, or intriguing; has many interests and wants to expand her fields of activity. Optimistic about the future.

Your Actual Problem

The fear that she might be prevented from achieving the things she wants leads her to play her part with an urgent and hectic intensity.


And a tarot card quiz thingie:


You are the Death card. Death is a stage in the
cycle of life. Without death, there would be no
room for new things to grow. When you receive
the Death card in a tarot reading, fear not;
Death is only an indication that transformation
is about to occur. Death allows us all to
evolve by removing that which is no longer
needed. The end of one cycle makes way for a
new one. Old behaviours and patterns which have
tied us down are released. Death cleans house
so that we don't have needless drains on our
energy. In Death's ruthless destruction there
lies compassion. Image from: Danielle Sylvie
Taylor
http://members.limitless.org/~morpheum/gallery.html


Which Tarot Card Are You?
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Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

Thunder. Lightning. That might explain why our lights just flickered.

Smegging well better not have a power outage tonight.

[dpawtows.livejournal.com]

I recall some SF movie where the bad guy was powering his Evil Thingie(tm) with a lightning rod atop the Space Needle "...to take advantage of Seattle's frequent thunderstorms." Obviously some writer in California had heard that "it rains alot in Seattle" and made a bad extrapolation.

[solarbird]

I think that was the second Austin Powers movie, actually.

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

I know, we were shocked to thunder today, it rarely happens!

[arthur-denger.livejournal.com]

Well, better power flickers than flower pickers, else what would you have left to photograph? :]

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

Mmmm thunder. :)

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

while not rare here, we had a nice storm at around 4am Friday morning. In the new apartment, I positioned my bed next to the window so I had a nice view of the tree outside, and was enjoying the sound of the wind thrashing the leaves around, then without warning - BANG! CRACK! and the rain started pouring in the open window on me. was still refreshing though

[stormrunner.livejournal.com]

Dangit, I just spent THREE WEEKS up there and nary a thunderstorm. And I missed the once-in-a-lifetime storm down here, too. *sigh*

By the by, great thanks for your flower pictures. I take a lot of flower pictures as well (my SO is *very* patient) and always enjoy looking through your lens.

[solarbird]

Good thing I've got a bunch more queued up - rainy season has set in with a vengeance and I don't think we'll be seeing too many more!

I also have started taking leaf pictures. Those'll probably show up around November. ^_^

[ottermama.livejournal.com]

Ok, I've been meaning to ask for a while but haven't had the chance until now: What kind of camera with what accessories are you using? I really like your pics!

[solarbird]

All the recent shots have been with my housemate spazzkat's Canon PowerShot A80, mostly in autoexposure mode because I haven't read the manual to figure out how to adjust its settings yet. This has cost me a few shots and I need to read the manual; poking buttons to figure it out didn't work. (I found various settings adjust but couldn't get it to keep them, for example. Not even for the shot I was shooting right then.) I think it's 4MP.

Since I figured out how to set the picture size - that I could figure out without the manual - I've been shooting at highest resolution, 2272x1704. I intentionally overshoot and then crop, so the higher resolution helps. Before that, they were whatever the camera had been set at previously, which almost always fortunately meant 1600x1200 and not something really dumb like 640x480. (OTOH, if it had been, I'd have found the adjustment sooner.)

Previously to that, I was using an Olympus C-211 2MP camera which got broken for me at the flower show last spring by someone who just had to reach around and grab a programme out of the rack I was in front of (and my camera was on), and not the unobstructed rack right next to it.

Both have built-in optical zoom which I used routinely. Digital zoom is not just a waste of time but is actively counter-productive. I'm not using any accessories with either.

I organise them in iPhoto (insofar as what I do can be called "organisation") and crop and prep for the web in Photoshop and Imageready, which should tell you how old my copies of Photoshop and Imageready are.

[ottermama.livejournal.com]

Aaah... well I thought I'd share something I did recently as well, since I've not been out with my camera in way way too long. If you look at the most recent entry of mine, you will find a link to my attempt to get back into the habit of taking my camera out for fun stuff like that. Enjoy!