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I really like Daniel’s contribution on this one.

Next week’s theme is “shine”.

Catching up on this whole weekly diptych thing.

The bottom photo is mine. I took it at the Paramount theater in Oakland. I do love that place.

Also: heh. I’m immature.

I’m tardy to the party with the latest diptychs. This one is from a few weeks ago. I’ll be posting last week’s shortly.

I’m seriously considering buying a digital point and shoot. Turns out that it’s really difficult to both shoot a roll of film and get it developed and scanned in a week’s time. So I’m thinking that I’d like to get a little camera to pick up the slack and then just try to shoot with my real camera a lot more often and see what happens.

I mention this because my contribution for this week was taken on a little Pentax point and shoot that I borrowed from a friend. I have to say that it is nice to take a photo and see it right away. But I’m still not a fan of bells and whistles. We’ll see how I feel over the next couple of weeks.

Next week is “cold”. Also, Daniel actually wrote a blog post with words about this. Check it out.

Next week the theme is “sad”.

I’m a week late getting this posted. Both Daniel and I were having technical issues. My scanner broke about two weeks ago. His computer was on the fritz. But we persevered! Enjoy.

The theme for this week is “fresh”.

Last week Daniel, a friend of mine from my library studies graduate program and fellow Twitter enthusiast, asked me if I’d be interested in working on a photography project with him. A few of his friends are working on a weekly diptych project wherein a word would be chosen every week and participants would take photos relating to the theme. As I’ve been meaning to both take more photos and stop my general abandonment the internet, I was really happy to have an opportunity to participate.

This is our first effort. The theme was “water”. Next week’s is “play”. Fun!

One of the things that I love in photos are surface reflections. Clouds reflected off of metal, mirror images on the surface of water. I’m always delighted when I manage to capture details like that.

I took this picture on the San Francisco side of the Bay Bridge. I was eating lunch at a little pier-side greasy spoon and decided that I’d rally like a photo fo the bridge. I didn’t expect it to be the photo I like best of everything I’ve taken in the last three or four months, but there it is.

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I was in England in June 2008. I think this was the only sunny day of my whole trip. Brighton has two piers, this one and one that people can actually hang out on. I sort of prefer this one.

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The Dutch love their bicycles. These signs are posted all over the country marking out routes to and from various cities. You know, because you’d just bike instead of taking the train or driving.

The LF routes are actually really amazing. They take longer to follow, but they go through the prettiest parks of the countryside. Les and I used them on all our bike trips.

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