noise to signal:
Photos 2007

ha ha. i love it. i'll see what i can do...

Get to know the real me: http://unclevinny.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/eyeball/

Most recent accidental self-portrait:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginyou/2078340975/in/set-72157603349786945/

Best one from earlier in the year:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginyou/390698293/

"Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a tree and fruit native to the Malay Peninsula and western Pacific islands." This quote has been copied directly, without paraphrase, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadfruit. In no way do I imply these words are my own. I fully respect the work and intellectual value of these words, which have been written by another person, a person who is not me. To be clear, I share these words because I find the breadfruit to be an interesting plant. I am not attempting to pose as an expert; I am not. I do not attempt to profit from the fruits of labour of others, nor from the labour of the fruits themselves.

look at the colors of the water.

it's cold and rainy here. boo hiss on cold and rainy.

Ever wonder if maybe we're living in the wrong part of the world....?

Only every couple of hours in the winter.

We are so fortunate in northern climes, protected, at least in part, from the menacing, ultraviolet rays. As a side note, Vitamin D is on sale this week.

This is a very elegant line.

Opportunists! Freeloaders! WELFARE TREES!

This is so striking. Thanks for taking it, and thanks for posting it!

Ok dude... it's about time you said "Orange" ;-)

nice. almost looks like fabric.

awwwwwwwwwwww. my grandparents always had banana trees at their house. they're gone and their house is now a rental property (breaks my heart). but i love seeing a banana tree - reminds me of the good times, of which there are too many to count.

I had planned to start this off with "You're nuts! You and I were both there not that long ago! At the same time, even!"

But then I started counting on my fingers and it turns out that "not that long ago" is in fact over two years.

So I guess I'm the nut!

Thank you for this lovely slice of aloha!

Didja finally break down a buy the the Widepan 617 (http://shop.lomography.com/widepan/widepan617/), or is this some sort of digital stitchery magery?

Hey, buy the way, did you ever get that Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC1? (http://www.noise-to-signal.com/2003/10/possibly_my_nex.html)

Nope, no widepan. It's digital panoramic stitching courtesy of MS Research and Windows Live Photo Gallery.

I didn't get that panasonic because Leica actually decided to make a digital M, and I'd rather save my shekels for that (anyone want to buy $6000 worth of photos from me?)

I looked at Leica's web site.

The digital M looks really really cool.

I love your work Dave. YAFPBD (yet another fabulous photo by Dave). I like the different layers of different textures here.

Who is the demon with the glowing eyes in the reflection? A friend of yours? A holiday window shopper?

ooh! that's spooky!

Now that's cool.

Gaudi!

Some structural engineer should come along and tell us why every other floor is convex, then concave, etc. Cool photo, even without a nerdy explanation.

.....and the answer is ...

Air Pressure

I'll fess up here and say that although the mirror windows are flexing in different directions, they're only emphasizing the already weirdo shape of the building being reflected.

Nice juxtaposition!

Where's David? How did you stay out of the image?
Are you standing just off to the side?

I'm shooting halfway up the side of the building, so I'm 50 feet below.

Here's an aerial image of the area with pushpins showing where everything was. Firefox and IE7 only, Safari doesn't play well with others:

http://maps.live.com/?v=2&cid=1A622E3CC2F261BF!411&encType=1

The waves and reflections are cool, but I also like the yellow and blue :-)

Yeah, but this one still leaves me feeling a little blue... possibly even bruised.

The lamp stares at the emptiness in the room, Zen-like in its trance.

I would do so much better with rotational kinematics if I had pictures like this in my text book.

beautiful.

Very noir-y/Arthur Hitchcockian.

It's you, taking a picture of a shadow of you taking a picture of a shadow of y... uh... yeah.

Very noir-iterative ?

Wow! This woke me up! Thank you!

Whoa!

WOW! That IS yellow.

Gorgeous.

har har.

Wow. You weren't kidding.

I thought it looked nice on mine too, until the colours just started trembling and burst into tears for now apparent reason,and are now running down my monitor and collecting into a smeared, swirling puddle of pixels on my desk.

You shouldn't have brought up their "colour management issues". And saying "Hues your daddy" was truly unnecessary.

Meow!

Hey, how's the old hood?

the first thing that came to mind when I looked at this one is "raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens"... just something about dewdrops and greenery and pretty light, I guess :-)

Of course it could also have something to do with having watched Mary Poppins a total of 1,242 times end to end over the course of the last 12 months.

What about the"People", "Us", and "Star" that grace your kitchen counter? They deserve to be photographed in nice light too. :-)

I second Heather's idea. "People" deserves good light as well.

My first thought when I saw this was "Damn! He snuck into our house and photographed my bedside (and living room)!" :-)

Very nice. I like the texture.

Fork, Mother!

Why not a series of photos taken while flossing?

Taking pictures while dining? What would Miss Manners say?

Or at least, that's how it appeared. But a few moments later after the green glow faded, and their vision was restored, the senior officers of the Enterprise rubbed their eyes and slowly looked around in confusion and awe. They were sitting on a bus that was trundling down a crowded street. Judging by their surroundings they appeared to have materialized sometime and someplace in the early 21st century. The vehicles were all still powered by conventional fuel and moved along the ground, and the city streets and sidewalks were all dirty, drab, concrete.

Meanwhile, back on the starship, the junior officers were attending a eulogy for the recently vapourized bridge crew and preparing for battle with the strange, green, anamoly that continued to pulsate and bob in space in front of them.

I love the Metro! It was a bit daunting at first, what with calculating the different fares and whatnot, but after trying to navigate the Beltway, I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to use the Metro to get around. The only drawback is the crazy factor. I see a crazy lady everytime I ride on it. One likes to salute the coming trains SS-style.

Love this one. My dad helped dig the tunnels for the Metro in the 70s & today's my birthday, so this was a nice treat to see your photo.

Well thank god! You had me worried for a minute there.

Seriously, this is a lovely abstract, with nice contrasts no less!

Way cool photo!

...indeed!

Coincidence?!? I think NOT!

This is a beautiful, solemn, photo.

Red! Green...! CHRISTMAS COLORS!!!!

Dude, that's not red and green.

Whatever you say, Grinchy!

This is nicely framed!

Oh! Oh, I didn't even see the face in the tree at first! I was so fixated on those fascinating leaves.

Man. That *really* looks like "The Scream." Uncanny.

What fascinates me most about Munch is that his style, as an artist, completely changed later in his career. Completely. As Randee of the Redwoods put it with his usual profundity :), "It's like the factory's still there, but it's making different stuff now."

this one's way way way cool.

I'll let you know weather I like it after a few more people chime in. You know, so I can see which way the wind is blowing.

I bet you think this comment's about you, don't you, don't you?

I think this is a breath of fresh air, myself, but don't let that go to your head or anything.

If it looks like a duct and quacks like a duct...it's a duct.

I know...puns like that really grate on the nerves.

If only there was some way my RSS reader could screen out posts like this one.

I know y'all think you're clever, but it's just a lot of hot air to me...

sour?

only if you whine!

Is that Alan?

That was my guess too, Heather!

Both correct!

Dude, this is so abstract.

Red onion?

The Canadian gets it in one. Nice job identifying the exact kind of onion, too.

... I think I see myself in the reflection of that glass ;-)

Weird.. on first glance my first thought was "snowflakes"... must be my Canadian blood ;-)

It actually looks like a person waaaaaay up high, doing a swan dive off a tight rope. The wing is his lower body, and the head & tail are his arms.

I am really liking this series - and this one in particular.

You know me... I don't know jack shit about photography. But both this one and the one from yesterday don't look photo-blurry to me, they look photoshop-blurry. Is it my imagination? Should I be able to tell?

Well, whatever you did here, the effect to me looks cool! This building here looks like an up-close shot of a model or a doll's house (you know, the way buildings look in those old Godzilla movies). This may not have been the effect you were going for, but I think it's interesting on can manipulate the real to look so artificial and vice-versa.

Either that or a Spiderman complex. :-)

Sadly true :-)

Thoreau would dig it...? Oh, maybe not.

close ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13937566@N05/1693190328/in/set-72157602611134628/

You could say "IL". That's what I said.

It's obviously two legs of spindly-kneed robot. He's a terrible swimmer, but his feet can double as floor hockey sticks.

Saw the eye before I saw the title. Nice :-)

I love the angles and perspective here.