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30 Second Exposure Fun!

I went to Minuteman National Park in Concord, MA today to take some pics of the Concord River at the Old North Bridge. For those of you who never studied US History, that’s where the first shots in the American Revolution were fired.

I took some 30 second exposures, and some plain ol’ ordinary pics too. This post is for the 30 second deals.

I like this one.
Underneath the Old North Bridge in Concord, MA

It almost looks like the river is frozen. That is so cool.
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And now we move to the other side of the bridge. I was kinda aiming blind on these. That explains the… leaning.
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This is a little better.
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I promise you that this one is in fact a long exposure. Look at the leaves at the end of the branches. Click on the image (or any of these images) to view them at Flickr. You can blow them up there.
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After this I drove from Concord to Billerica to take a few at the Middlesex Canal. Unfortunately, the iron fence surrounding the water fall made my little tiny gorilla pod pretty much useless. I tried a few anyway.
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I think these long exposure thingies are wicked cool. I hope you don’t think they suck.

More pics to come later…

Stars

I did manage to sneak outside last night to watch for meteors. I saw one, clear as can be. I was in the back yard sort of facing South, I guess. Maybe more like Southish. I don’t have much in terms of a sense of direction, you know? Anyway, I saw one just along the tree line. It lit up nicely and moved for a nice distance. I was pleased.

I was less pleased with my camera luck. I took a bunch of 30 second shots in the hopes that I’d get lucky and catch something streaking over head. I didn’t. I brought a table outside with me, focused the camera on a street light down the road, and placed the camera on it’s back, facing straight up. I used the 10 second timer, and set the exposure time for 30 seconds. I was surprised by the pictures as it looks like the stars moved a little. There were trails. I know that happens for long exposures, but I didn’t think 30 seconds was long enough. Either the camera moved a little or I had some wrong information. I’ll have to do a little more research before I try something like that again.

Here’s what I’m talking about…

If you click on a picture it will take you to Flickr. You can see larger versions of each pic there.
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Did those stars trail because of something I did, or because of something they did. Is 30 seconds too long?

Random Flickr Pic

The work day is ending. I’ve wrapped up what I was working on. My wife is on her way here so that we can drive together to get the kids. I am in a complete state of terror that my phone will ring before I can sign out for the weekend.

Here’s a random Flickr Pic to help keep my mind off of the phone.

It’s Niagara Falls. Sure it’s only been a few weeks since we visited, but I wouldn’t mind going back with the kids.

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Three minutes until I can punch out.
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One minute until I can punch out.

Two Years Ago Today

Two years ago today, we were at the San Diego Zoo.

How about we go back there, right now?

ADDENDUM:

Actually, we were in the San Diego Zoo two years ago yesterday.  Two years ago today we were in Balboa Park.  I still want to go back right now though.
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Neighborhood Wedding Part 2

I posted yesterday that we had a wedding on our street. Not exactly. It appears that the limo was picking up the bride to take her to the ceremony, not bringing the happy couple to the reception at the house.

Who cares, it was still pretty cool.
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Better… Sort of… Almost

I almost feel a little better today. Sort of. I’m still really congested but it’s not as bad as it was. I can almost (not quite) breath through my nose today. The coughing and sneezing are not entirely gone, but they have been reduced. I have a little more energy today, although not much. I’m still feeling run down. So I’m almost feeling a little better. Kind of.

Want to hear a little crazy talk? It’s been 10 days since I’ve had a sip of coca~cola. Coca~cola is my nemesis. I love it so. Oh, how I love that caramel colored, carbonated, caffeinated goodness. Sweet nectar of life, I love it so. But it is probably the #1 cause of my skyrocketing out of control weight. Every once in a while I try to cut it out of my diet. 10 days is a good start. I have also managed to completely avoid caffeine during that time too. I have not eliminated soda. I’ve been getting a Canada Dry Ginger Ale at lunch on the days I am in the office. There’s one sitting next to me right now. Other than that it has been water, water with flavoring, gatorade, or other fruit type juices. I did not weigh myself before jumping on the wagon, so I don’t know if I’ve lost any weight. I do know that I’ve managed to sleep better in the last couple of nights. I’ll take that as a plus. I have also been trying to avoid the cafeteria at lunch time. I’ve brown bagged it each day that I’ve been in the office, and avoided going out of pigging out like a madman when working at home. The gym has been tougher. I’ve only gone twice in the 10 days. Being sick got in the way a couple of times, but it’s still not a regular thing yet. I might try again tomorrow.

On a totally unrelated note, Flickr is shutting down for maintenance tonight from 4:00-10:00pm Pacific time. That means no uploading anything tonight. Not that I have anything to upload. I will now post one picture as an experiment to see if the site going down includes losing access to everything. You’re fascinated, I can tell.

How about a picture of a Union Jack, taken at Colonial Williamsburg? You know, in honor of the royal baby and all. Yeah, that.
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What else is there. Oh, hockey. The NHL finally announced next season’s schedule. No word yet on how they plan to force the cancellation of half of it, the way they did last year. The league has been realigned. The Bruins are now in the Atlantic Division. No teams from the old Atlantic are in the new Atlantic. Most of those teams are in the… wait for it… Metropolitan Division.

Oh please, that’s the best you could do? Why not the Teams Sort of Closest to New York Division? Why not the Middle East Division. Cause… these are teams that are in the East, but south of New England and North of Florida, so they are kind of in the Middle of the East, therefore Middle East. Get it? Even that is better than Metropolitan Division.

Well, lunch break is ending. Time to pop some DayQuil and try and figure out some bugs. Happy Wednesday.