Peter

3D -- First Attempt

The following two images should be viewed by crossing your eyes until the two merge to form a third image.  If you need instructions on how to do this, this link seems to be a good place to start.  Without further delay (no French here....  wait, is "ado" French?  Prolly not, since it would be spelled "adieu" if it were) I present the monkey.

Monkey see, monkey see 3D?

So if you're not any good at this whole crossing your eyes thing, you'll have to settle for the lame "wiggler" version:

Click me to view

Next on my list:  3D landscapes!

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Box Springs and Sugarloaf Mountains

Apparently there is a 20 MB/50 MP upload limit on images for blogger.  This particular photo is originally 88 MB and 127 MP, so what you see is a horribly scaled down version.  I was going to give prizes (translation: praise) to those who could find various places in our stomping grounds, such as our church building, the "Big C" our house, etc., but you'll just have to admire what the University Heights section of town looks like in the winter.

End of Nondescript Titles

Blue and white seems to make for a better photo than red and white.  See the following exhibits:

Table Salt

These make my nose tingle

Ignition

Not really white, but where it's overexposed it is

And an all-red to show just how boring that is.

I do like the iridescence, though

Now for some Blue and White:

"Greatest meeting of Land and Sea"

Venus... and some other lights

Near Cabazon, CA (at 80 MPH)

Our sink started doing this on its own, recently

Why would they put a fence there? (Pt. Reyes)

Armageddon

Despite any complete self-destruction exhibited in the collegiate world, at least blue-and-white can triumph over red-and-white on my blog.

Some Number - Some Bigger Number

Happy 4th!  Er.... 11th.

We went to our city's firework show this year.  They ended up starting 6 separate grass fires in the process.  They blamed the wet year (tall grass) combined with the recently hot weather.

San Diego Skyline beyond the Naval Air Station

Gray skies do occur in Sunny Sandy Ego.  This one surely won't fit nicely in your browser window.

Mystic Lake

Liz wants to buy the house and farm we saw down in that valley.  I'm going to have to learn to run a dairy...

21-22

No particular reason for the photos chosen today...  Just some from my "portfolio" (fancy word for hard drive).

From our botanic gardens

Stairway *from* heaven

Bonus Photo! (I missed posting last week, and this photo is related anyhow)

Pt. Reyes lighthouse

Week 20

One of my favorite features of the greater L.A. area is "May gray" and "June gloom".  Typically at this time of year it's foggy every morning, which burns off by midday (at least in Riverside).  I like the daily morning fog, and I like the cooler weather that it brings... only one problem - no fog so far this year!  Sure we've been having cool weather (it's been within a few degrees of 78 every day for the last couple weeks months) but no fog.

By the way, if the following photo looks familiar, I believe it made an appearance in the SlimySatisfaction blog last year (when it was taken).

What it's supposed to look like around here

Weeks 18 and 19 (Blackbirds)

I doubt it caught a fish that big.

Crow, Raven, Rook?  Some member of the corvidae.

P.S.  The answer to last post's question is posted in the comments.

Week 17 - Abstract Art

Abstract art.  I can't stand abstract art for abstract's sake (e.g. painting squares and lines and pretending that it's profound), probably because I don't understand it.  I can appreciate the beauty in things that common people (people without a special perspective) don't understand (e.g. the beauty I perceive in the Navier-Stokes equation), but I can't imagine that anyone can understand "art" that looks like it was made by a grade-schooler.  I mean, is there really all that hidden meaning, or is the observer making the piece out to be something more than it is (like English literature classes... but I digress).

I'll take my personal definition of abstract art to mean something that is devoid of references to the physical world.  I take pictures of what becomes "abstract art" because it is visually interesting... nothing more.  Feel free to add your interpretation and fix a value of thousands of dollars to the following image if you are so inclined, just understand that no deeper meaning was intentionally captured.

That all being said, anyone care to guess what this is?

Week 16

IN GOD WE TRUST

Another metaphor this week.  No matter what abuses we have undergone, or what imperfections we exhibit, we have reason to hold up our heads and smile if it's IN GOD WE TRUST.