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[foxgrrl]

My life has been getting very interesting very fast. New boss at work – who was my old boss at a previous company. Oh, and Nyah is coming to stay with me ♥ ♥ ♥

There was a bee, taking a short bee-break on my car window at sunset. So I took her picture. (I only had natural light to work with here, so the images aren't as razor-sharp as usual.)


Here's a cropped image, that's scaled down less than the above. (The original looks just the the above. I was only using a reversed 50mm lens. so there is only one focal-length and magnification.)


I accidentially overexposed one frame, and – this may just be a reflection of the sky – but this bee appears to have blue eyes.


They – you know THEY – are shutting down power to our building, where I work, this weekend. So it's a perfect time to completely rewire the QA lab, and do some other IT stuff. Here are some "Before" pictures. Actually, about one third of the equipment has already been pulled out at this point when I took these pictures. So it's not nearly as impressive as it could possibly be... (Taken with my, widest angle, 18mm lens.)


For whoever it was asking me about the dust reference images: The aperture does matter when trying to image the dust on the CCD. (These were shot with the Nikon ED 55-200mm "G" lens at 200mm. I have lenses with worse vignetting than this. The effect is exaggerated here — I stretched out the curve.) (Yes I cleaned my CDD after this, this was from the recent trip to DC/VA/PA/MD/etc.)

Comments

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Hey. About pride, looks like we're going to have me, you, Jon, and Stacey. Starting to think we should drive instead of train (at $10 each for all of you without train passes, it exceeds efficiency. I figure it's only $20 to drive and park although it does assume there is parking.

anyhow, want to meet here? Haven't figured out what time yet but I'm thinking 2-3hrs before the parade time would be good.;

[foxgrrl]

Just to complicate things... I've also invited Nyah (now that she'll be back on this continent by tomorrow), and graelin, and possibly one other person. Which mostly fills my car — I can fit one more thin person in the middle of the back seat. At least that's the current plan, we can still meet up and then caravan up to SF.

I was thinking of parking at a BART station, and then taking that the rest of the way downtown.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Five people in a car on a long trip sounds a bit snug. Especially given Stacey's tendency to go rabid and attack people. Perhaps it'd be better to go in different vehicles.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* Um, if there does end up being room, can I jump in? I don't know as I'd call myself "thin" per se, but I squish easily and don't mind being cosy. (This is for Sunday right?)

[foxgrrl]

There is enough space for one more person, two people have called me in the last two hours for maybe-possibly needing a ride. So I'm still figuring things out. I think dv_girl has an empty seat too, so we can shuffle people around as needed.

This is for Sunday morning.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

If it would be possible for me to go with y'all, that would be super cool. You have my number, so feel free to give me a call and let me know what will work. I'm trying to avoid driving right now but could VTA/bike it to your place or some other suitable meeting point tomorrow AM.

[foxgrrl]

I had to search through some stuff, but I found your number (The 319NPA one?) Anyway, since you're in Mountain View, and I'm in Mountain View, and I'm driving, and I have to pick someone up from Sunnyvale... It should be easy to just pick you up at home.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, that works too -- /me was just trying to keep you from having to drive any farther southeast than you might otherwise have to, and come up with an excuse to bike ten miles at the same time. ;) But whatever works.

Yus, it's the 319 number. I forget, do you have my real email address?

[foxgrrl]

I thought I had your resume somewhere, but I haven't found it yet... So I only have your Gmail one.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Not especially hard to find; it's my initials at my domain name, and you can figure out both of those from the front page of my LJ.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I love the bee pictures. Have you ever tried submitting your photos to a magazine?

Also, have you had any luck creating a DVD-player readable version of the last 1st season Dr. Who episode?

[foxgrrl]

I love the bee pictures. Have you ever tried submitting your photos to a magazine?

No, thought about it briefly.

Also, have you had any luck creating a DVD-player readable version of the last 1st season Dr. Who episode?

Oops, no not yet, I have barely been back in California for 30 hours, and I went to work and slept for big chunks of that. The only computer related stuff I've do so far, is this Livejournal. (And this is on my laptop, not on my Linux box where the Doctor Who stuff is.)

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I, a virtual internet stranger, love your pictures and think you should be persuing professional photography.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

No worries, sleep most definitely comes first. Also, I very much recommend trying to get your photos published, they are stunningly good.

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

Crap! I still have to burn off those Al Stewart CD's... It was "Between the Wars" and "Russians and Americans", right?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Yes, and that would be much appreciated. Do you have my address?

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

Ah, no, I don't believe I do. That said, I'm still planning to come down to the fall Thresholds, I can more easily mail them from Ri's that from here given the stupidity level that exists. If you're willing to wait a few months...

[heron61.livejournal.com]

No problem. OTOH, I'd enjoy getting them early and will gladly send you money for postage via paypal if that would help. My address can be found here.

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

Hey Silvaerina, can you confirm the dates on the fall Thresholds? I need to put in a Time-Off request at work.

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

Actually I can't, and I have asked people quite a few times for them. I rather need them so I can also book time off.

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll grab your brother Wednesday and lick his nose until he tells!

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

That'll work... Now he has to remember to get back to me.

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Dear god that place was a mess. :-) Show us some of the pretty after pictures once it's all cleaned up and looking sexy. Also, email me or something -- we barely got to talk when I was down there. Say hi to Nyah for me, too.

[foxgrrl]

I've been so busy talking to everyone, that I haven't been able to talk to anyone.

My life has been kinda a blur lately. [Lately == last several months]

(Now that I think back, I was kinda sick, and then busy, and then sick, and then I flew out to the East Coast and time stopped for me, but two weeks passed in the real world. So, it doesn't seem that long ago for me.)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Razor-sharp is not always good. That sun-drenched bee is gorgeous.

[foxgrrl]

This is the un-cropped original (scaled down to 800x528 however):


(Photographed with the aperture wide open.)

[spiderdust.livejournal.com]

Hmm, those wires look familiar. Where do you work again?

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to you and Nyah!

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

*heart* Beeeeez!