Endikos

Apple’s really earned my loyalty.   Here’s the latest in a long series of examples where Apple has taken really good care of me.  Late last week I ordered Aperture 2 from Apple.  I haven’t received it yet, and this morning I learned that Aperture 3 just came out.  I’d missed it by a few days.  I called Apple, thinking that maybe they’d take pity on me, but fully expecting that they’d say “wow, that’s really a shame, but it’s $99 to upgrade to Aperture 3″.  Instead, they say they understand and they emailed me a link to print off return labels for the copy of Aperture 2 they sent me when I receive it, and now they’re sending me Aperture 3 instead.  Apple, you rock.

Do you – can you – put love in a box?  Or perhaps love is given as a gift? Maybe it’s discovered accidently. Or maybe it’s sought after with great fervor.  I’ll let you figure out what’s being said with this one :-)

This is the shot I was trying to get last night.  I broke down and brought out a light this time, and the shot is much better for it.

My oldest son, Gabe, has this cool wooden motorcycle that he picked up while we were on vacation to New Mexico.   I had tried some other photos tonight, and they just didn’t turn out the way I’d hoped… so Gabe gave me a cool subject to shoot.  It was either this, or a super nifty model airplane that shoots automatic missiles that stick into the ceiling (or so he says).

Somewhere inside me is a numismatist just trying to get out.  I have a bit of an interest in coins.  The older the better. In fact, I’d love to have a collection of Biblical-era (New Testament) coins.  While this coin certainly isn’t ancient, it is very old.  This is a 1797 British Penny, and it’s massive.  About 1 and a half inches across, a quarter inch deep, it weighs in at about 2 ounces, and is made of pure copper.  It was a gift from my grandmother and was likely on the boat across the Atlantic when her parents came to the US.  Oh and if your curious what the inscription on the reverse side means, it’s a latin phrase. “Georgius III • D:G • Rex •” Is short for “Georgius III • Dei Gracia • Rex”, which is Latin for “George the Third, By the Grace of God, King”.

Today’s shoot was a lot of fun.  These Matryoshka nesting dolls were given to me by my friend Ed when he returned from a trip to Russia.  I love toys and knick-knacks, but these little cats are probably the most novel piece in my collection of fun little things. They’re hand painted and signed, and I took a LOT of shots in various stages of assembly until I got to this little gem.

This little building doesn’t seem much larger than a chicken coop, but it has full-size doors, windows, old electrical hookups, and the remnants of a dirt driveway.  Perhaps it was a shop or lean-to attached to a no-longer-extant house?

So I was thinking that I might try to do some sort of cool the-shop-from-up-high type of shot today, but as I was on my way to the spot I was thinking of shooting from I saw this big mess of long springs all in a jumble.  I thought they looked interesting, so that’s what you get today :-)

There’s this place near my workplace that lined with all these old 1920’s and 1930’s tractors sitting out on “display”.   They looked particularly nifty in the snow and frost.  I couldn’t choose just one to show you today, so I decided that I’d go ahead and post these two for you.