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Making Future Magic: iPad light painting on Vimeo - This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world. We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments,...

I will not bow to the wind ("infrared" version) | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - A massive storm blew through town Thursday (August 23, 2007). Well, through *all* of Chicagoland, actually. Wheaton reported wind speeds of 90 mph, but we only saw 60-80 mph winds in Romeoville, where this tree lives. I took this shot just minutes before the big wind blender hit us. Afterward, it was too wet to do anything else but get wet on the porch while admiring the hand of nature flattening anything that could bend. The kids sat on my lap until the surround-sound stereo lightning and thunder drove them back inside. I love this tree, it sits right outside our home, directly in front of our porch. It greets us in the morning as the sun rises over the marsh behind it. It hails the sunset at night and proclaims even the slightest change in weather with its long streamers of leaves. My kids love to climb it and enjoy its green, canopied privacy (on becalmed days with little wind, that is). When I stand beside its trunk I feel as if I am a child, hidden in the skirts of a protective mother. It's not on my property, but when we water the lawn, we also share with this sentinel outside our home. This is the black and white version of the color shot. I applied an "infrared" filter and a little grain. And a whole bunch of other secret sauce stuff, besides. Hope you like it. I can't decide which is my favorite. (2007-08-23-storm-4141-bw2) #CapturedPhotoContest_Inhabitat

Don't just sit there, shoot something! (Explore) | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Big storm came through Thursday. So, naturally, I wanted to document the incoming storm clouds. I returned to the park bench which featured in a few of my other photos. I like this bench. It's sturdy, comfortable, and well-placed. Conveniently positioned for colorful sunsets over a grassy park, it's also handy for pre-jog stretches (not that I ever indulged in the jogging, but I have been known to lean here for a hamstring stretch now and then), and it's about the only seat around for a hundred yards. It sees a lot of action. When designing the park, somebody's boss must have said, "This is only one bench left — place it well." The bench is also about 40 feet from my front door. So, I wasn't worried too much about the developing storm: if I needed to bolt back to the house, I could. I felt pretty comfortable just hanging around the bench, using it to compose some shots. Taking my time. That's what you do around benches. You take your time. Nobody's in a hurry when they're sitting on a bench. They're not wasting time, they're passing it. Yet while strolling back to my abode, attempting to maintain my park-bench-casualness, my wife said, "Hurry up, you're the tallest thing in the park!" Okay, so lightning. It's not respecter of park benches. At least, if I'd been struck, I wouldn't have to worry about not having a decent flash when I needed one. [Highest position in Explore: 137 on Monday, August 27, 2007] (2007-08-23-storm-4149-new) #CapturedPhotoContest_Inhabitat

Sandstone window, Deux | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Another old photo from 2005, revisited, in black and white. This is a view of the architecture just outside where I used to work in Chicagoland (Illinois). I loved the texture of the stucco, the rigid lines, the square cut-outs that gave a sense of depth and solidity, and the mere fact that the tan, tactile design unfailingly reminded me of home, Albuquerque, where adobe and stucco were the most commonplace building styles. It is unusual to see echoes of the great Southwest anywhere north of New Mexico or Colorado, and I always enjoyed my daily passage through this windowed portal, savoring the nostalgia of my youth. (2005-08-03-portal-2154-new2) #CapturedPhotoContest_Inhabitat

Even Playtime Requires a Break Now and Then | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - AJ always has some bit of nature he's collected off the playground. Twigs, stones, seeds, acorns, whatever. He's a regular flotsam magnet — and it all comes home with him. Ellie just likes to attract attention. Can you tell? They're resting on a wooden playground structure my father-in-law designed and created for his home, which my wife grew up using and which my children got to enjoy on a daily basis while we lived there during a difficult time. The structure features this high platform, a rope swing, some saddle swings, a ladder, and (naturally) a slide. Playing on it is one part wonder, one part caution: you never know if you'll end up impaled on a couple inches of wooden splinter, fall off the rope swing and get your breath knocked out of you, or if you'd get friction burn on the stainless steel slide. Nevertheless, the rainbow-painted mini-playground can host anything from a space-pirate ambush to a rag-doll tea-party. And it hosts some great memories, too. Sometimes I think maybe cardboard boxes will suffice, but nothing really ever beats a good, old-fashioned playground. (2008-11-06-aj-ellie-playground-00960-new) #CapturedPhotoContest_Inhabitat

Muskegon, Michigan, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, 1 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - There is this church in Muskegon, Michigan, representing one of the most interesting designs for worship architecture I've ever seen. It's not massive in scale, but it conveys great gravitas and mass. It's not grand, delicate or over-designed, but it communicates majesty all the same. Its odd angles, poured concrete, patterned bricks, and subtle stateliness all give me pause to contemplate the gift of creativity which always points back to the giver of all good gifts. (2005-11-27-st-francis-2600-new.jpg) #CapturedPhotoContest_Inhabitat

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