A picture of flowers that are growing in the courtyard outside my apartment. There's a bunch of women who live here that seem to enjoy gardening. I guess that's good for my pictures. :) I'd like to buy a lens that's better for macro shots but haven't decided yet which lens to buy so I'm still using my kit lens. The pictures come out all right though I guess.


I went to a coworker's place for a BBQ one sunday. The pictures of the bbq were ok. I like cats though so I'm posting pictures of his cat. This is Inode, an applehead siamese. I never knew there were other variants of siamese cats, but I think it's a very pretty coat.



Apparently Inode likes this window sill a lot.


I went to NJ this past weekend. A friend gave me a ride on the way to the airport, and we noticed that as we got closer to the airport (and to the shore) it went from very sunny to very foggy all of a sudden. I was too slow to get a picture while we were in the car (would have liked to get one of the fog in the distance) but this one from the sky shows why it got foggy so suddenly.


It kind of sucks taking pictures from an airplane when your seat is close to the wing. I'll remember that for next time I choose seats. Anyways, there was a mosquito (or some other insect that resembles a mosquito) between the panes of glass of my window. I wonder how it got there, and honestly have no idea how it could have.


I took a lot of landscapes on the flight to Denver. There were several factors contributing to the orientation of the following pictures. 1) I was sitting by the wing. 2) The window was pretty far forward relative to my seat. 3) The guy in front of my leaned his seat all the way back as soon as the flight was in the air. So.. yeah. Some I managed to get normal orientation but more often than not that was a pretty difficult proposition.

The following landscape is a little underexposed to bring out the colors. Not sure why but this is one of the only ones I really underexposed so the others all look somewhat washed out. Then again at the altitudes we were flying it was probably more accurate if they looked a hair washed out.


I really like this picture. The erosion from the river almost makes this look like a plant. A really really big plant.


This was some line where the terrain abruptly changed from one type to some other type. I thought it was pretty neat. You can see the striations in the rock to the left as well.


Some river. I thought the patters in the rock that has been eroded were pretty neat.


Not sure what this is, and wasn't sure whether I wanted to post it or not. Then I decided that in the time it would take me to decide I could just post it, so I went ahead and posted it.


I like this picture too.


The land here is kind of neat. This looks like a big maze. The terrain here looks like the badlands (red and white striated rock) but I think those are just in south dakota. Notice that this picture is also somewhat underexposed.


Clouds. I like clouds, I think they look neat. This photo was deliberately underexposed to get the detail of the clouds. I might be able to achieve the same thing with a polarising filter at more normal exposure levels, but I'm not entirely sure. There's only one way to find out.. but I'm not buying any filters until I decide what lenses I'm going to buy.


Sunset from the airplane. I like how the sun is reflecting off a lake in the background. I think that you can also see another airplane in this picture.


Driving from the airport in NJ. The other cars appear almost ghostly. At least in my opinion.


This is Carmen. She's a young kitty. Very playful. Also possibly the clumsiest cat I've ever seen. All in all a lot more fun than Inode, who tends to the shy side.


Here I'm trying to provoke Carmen into attacking my camera strap.


This is after I wore the poor kitty out.



refraction


This was on the flight to SFO. I liked the coloring of this cloud.


This was a really funny shaped cloud. Never seen anything like it.