Since this is edition # 12 of Topical Tuesday (my ramble filled look at a week gone by, often with photos from my iPhone), that means I’ve been an active blogger for over 3 months. With my website now having a large focus on the blog section, this is extra motivation to make sure to keep on top of blogging.
The above photo is a Lego built Loch Ness monster at Downtown Disney. This entry will have a few of my last photos from my trip to Florida (I’ll have an entry devoted entirely to the marathon, including the aspect of running photography during it on Sunday).
One of the coolest and most unusual features of the airports in both Orlando and Dallas Fort Worth (the site of my layovers both times) was that they are so large that a monorail transports passengers from one end of the airport to the other. Both times I had to take it to get to my plane, and its much quieter and efficient than I had anticipated (one appears to pick up passengers roughly every 3 minutes). They are very fast, at one point I saw people who chose not to hold onto the poles falling into other people. I made sure to have a seat or grab a pole every time after that abrupt stop.
On the trip back I was quite tired and the sun was incredibly bright. Still, I was glad I had the window shade opened for this photo, where the wing of the plane seems to match in color and almost in pattern the topography below
Just a short time after, I looked out the window to sun that was really bright, so much so that without sunglasses on, I could not even keep the window shade open and look out. Experimentally, I put the shade down two thirds of the way down, pointed the iPhone up through the opening and took one shot. I probably would have tried a second as well, yet I was really pleased with this image and decided to keep that as my piece of experimental art.
While back in San Jose, one of my first errand stops was at the library to get more books. I was putting the books in my trunk, when along came a vehicle I’d never seen in the vicinity of city hall before:
I’d heard about the yellow trucks (the color chosen as it is supposed to have a calming effect on people), yet rarely seen them in the field. The firefighters asked why I was taking photos and I told them I was getting some interesting shots of San Jose City Hall with the truck adding to the photo. They asked me not to photograph them or the patient, which is fine as I was going for landscape photo anyhow.
I’m definitely more a dog person than a cat person, yet there are two quick cat stories in this entry.
First, there’s a cat that when she sees me get out of a car on my home street always comes running. She will rub around my legs over and over again, until I start to walk away. She’d probably do this for twenty minutes or longer if I’d let her, though I usually only stand still for this for a few brief moments. I don’t know her name, and she appears to be a stray, here’s the first welcomer I had as I arrived at my house after a week away.
Lastly, I was at my friends’ Rachel and Aki’s house for dinner and television. The colors on their large screen TV seem to make things just leap off and out at you. Rachel told me the cats especially get into the animal shows and put on Animal Planet to show me. Sure enough, their apty named black Manx, Stubby, swung at the screen. “There goes a few pixels, “Aki joked. Then their other cat, Sher Khan, an orange tabby named for a character in “The Jungle Book” stood up to the screen. While this low light iPhone photo isn’t perfect, it seemed like a great one to end this entry on.
by Danielle Stolman
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