• Posts Tagged ‘Photos’

    To be a mushroom

    by  • November 11, 2011. 11:45 am • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

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    It must be pretty sweet being a mush­room. They get to sit around all day in moist envi­ron­ments that aren’t too warm. Occa­sion­ally, accord­ing to myths, frogs will jump on you and chill out for a while on your fungus-y ten­drils. And when it’s almost dark out, you start shin­ing with a really weird glow that can’t be […]

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    Classic Photo Log: A Beginning

    by  • February 28, 2011. 10:11 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    One of the projects I’ve always wanted to work on was scan­ning all of our fam­ily phở­tos into dig­i­tal for­mat. Now that I actu­ally have a) time, and b) money, I’ve bulked up on stor­age, scan­ning capa­bil­i­ties, and com­puter mon­i­tors in prepa­ra­tion of this project. My great-grandfather, George, was an avid phở­tog­ra­pher, and I inher­ited his Nikkormat […]

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    View of Polaroids

    by  • February 9, 2011. 10:15 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    When I was grow­ing up, I had a Polaroid cam­era that I used on ran­dom occa­sions when I didn’t feel like using the tra­di­tional 35mm film cam­era for some unknown rea­son. After begin­ning the process to clean up my room at home, I found a cache of saved pic­tures taken with this cam­era. There were exactly thir­teen in this batch. This is […]

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    Colonel Pudg’ums

    by  • January 16, 2011. 10:15 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    From time to time, I will sud­denly be over­taken with the urge to “go stalk some birds” near Union Bay. Belat­edly charg­ing my cam­era bat­ter­ies and find­ing my lenses, I head off across cam­pus in search of some flight-capable ani­mals. The ini­tial goal of phở­tograph­ing them is often side­tracked by their seem­ingly cacoph­ony of sounds, for I instead […]

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