4 Great Images of "Rust"

Yesterday, I tried out something I haven't done in a while. I felt a little rusty. It inspired me to go looking for pictures of "rusty" on flickr. What I found was really interesting and made me feel melancholy and wishing I had a time machine where I could go back and see things as they were, not as they are.

Rust and Surf # 2 by Patrick Smith Photography (and on flickr)

In addition to being a fabulous picture, I really liked how the photographer placed notes on the image discussing its composition points. Really well, done. Check them out on flickr or over on the full website. Excellent stuff.

Pelican's eye view by Peter vanAllen (and on flickr)

I'm a sucker for HDR shots. I know its cheating a bit, but I really love the way they pop. Wish I could learn to make them myself. Anyway, I like this one. It makes me wonder what life was like when this was all new.

Found in Field Dead by Яick Harris

This truck looks so sad. It probably had a useful life. And someone had a lot of interesting experiences in/with it. See, melancholy. That's what these pictures do.

And finally,
Tractor rust by tina_manthorpe


This one is an abstract, obviously, but it really conveyed a lot of emotion to me. Ravages of time and all that. This photographer has some other great decay and rust photos. Be sure to check them all out.

I had originally planned on making this 10 images--people seem to like those Top10 lists--but then decided I was writing this for myself anyway and I would stop at 4 :-) Its a good number for today.

As my son would say, peace out.

Wow.

Just wow.

What an amazing night.

I'm Not Sure Comments are Needed on this One

Wow, this is entertaining.

Troy and I spent the entire video commenting that the monkey probably drives better than his mother. LOL.

Full Disclosure: I found this on Mixx
http://www.mixx.com/videos/2532291/what_happens_when_a_chimpanzee_gets_on_a_segway

Blog Recommendation

Each day, I look forward to reading the Big Picture. The fact that its published only 3x a week makes me sad on the days I don't have a big picture to look at.

Produced by Boston.com, this is perhaps, the only thing I like about Boston. The pictures they find each day are absolutely amazing. They have given me a new appreciation for photography and covered some things that I never thought would hold my attention for longer than 30 seconds. Example: the Australian Motorcycle Gran Prix.

I encourage you to check it out, leave comments, give feedback on how great the features are. Hopefully they will continue to publish!

I'm Very Lucky!

I thought maybe I'd try to bookend my "hard to be me" post by talking about the rest of my family this morning. I've got a bunch of work to do, but somehow getting this blog post done will help me get my "real" work done, right?

Anyhoo, that's Zack in the picture with me. I love this picture because I think it captures Zack's personality. Although my son looks a LOT like me, he's really all Troy inside. He is always happy and smiling. Any crankiness he experiences is very quickly replaced with happiness. His imagination runs overtime.

Last night, about 15 mins before this picture was taken, he was telling me the story of Max. Max, apparently, is Zack's imaginary kitty cat. I didn't know kids his age were all about the imaginary pets. Totally shocked me. He had all sorts of stories about Max and him at the playground. Max really likes to go on the swings.

Last night, h also caught me by surprise while we were waiting at the Jenny Craig Center (yes, I'm trying to diet and called in the cavalry), by counting from 1 to 20. Missed a couple in there but last I knew he was only up to about 8 consistently. I guess all working moms understand the mixed feelings that brought up-- ooh, wow, he's counting to 20! and oh, where did he learn that and where was I?

By looking at the man that my husband is and seeing the same personality bits in Zack, I find myself growing curiouser and curiouser about how Z will grow up. With that Alice in Wonderland reference made, I'll go ahead and get back to work now....


UPDATE: after posting this the first time and actually looking at it, I was reminded of a picture taken just over 2 years ago now that is similar in composition:

Am I becoming *THAT* blogger?

That only links to YouTube videos?

Maybe, but I have a reason. I'm discouraged with the world today. Take this for example:



52 Million times its been viewed. That's more than watched the Presidential debates here in the US.

And its not entertaining. Its just ... dumb. (No offense to the creator).

Sigh.

What's up with me today??

Oh my, another blog post!

Two things I've got stuck in my head thanks to mixx:



(I like that one cause it has subtitles)

and



Enjoy.
Or not.