I just thought this guy looked really striking, the eyes, the whole thing:

First the photo, then some chattering:

Yeah, it seems like a rather conventional shot, just a lady* holding an umbrella, but I think the crop is all important here.  I did what I call a 3/4 crop on this one.  What I mean by that is that the informational parts of the photograph are in the 3rd and 4th quadrant of the photo, instead of it being a 1/2 crop where the information is just in the first two quadrants.

(I add the asterisk because I took this one at a gay pride parade and I am not sure if this is a lady.)

Actually, a lion I photographed when I was inside the library hiding from the rain:

When I went to Italy, I kept wondering why the inside of every public building looked like your average American public library.  Today I went to the Boston Public Library and thought it looked like Italy.

Not Italy:

Alone in my own home:

Yeah, I’ve exchanged my tricked out digital SLR arm extension for a 40 pound daguerrotyping machine. I thought it was time. And here is the first thing out of my new machine:

**All of the stuff above was a joke. Of course this is from the XSI!

Yesterday I watched a Hulu clip of a house tour given by one of those New Jersey housewives. I won’t say which one because I’m a bit afraid that she might be “connected” so I can make editorial comments about her house. It looked like a steroidal Olive Garden. In other words, tacky, but in a bad way.

Looking at this photo, I thought that housewife must be weeping because it not attached to her house:

I feel some attitude coming off of this fish.  Do you agree?:

No, I am not in Florida right now, though I’d love to be there right now.  It is nice and sunny out around these parts, but it is still nice to look at Florida.  Ah, Florida:

And every single day in Florida is like Christmas, if what you want for Christmas is tons of tacky stuff: