Glass… part 2…

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Is it a tear drop at a Grateful Dead concert?

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Is it a drop of molten gold?

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Is it a corneal transplant operation?

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Is it a tiny drop of water as seen through an electron microscope?

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Is it a single-celled organism?

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Is it an alien space station?

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Is it a sperm cell impregnating an egg?

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Is it a ring of power being forged by Sauron’s dark magic?

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Nope. It is just a tiny bubble inside that paper weight, one of the things I made when I took that glass blowing class, taken with a macro lens, and put through some digital filters.

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I am handy to have around…

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Oooops… awkward thumb placement… hold on…

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Much better… but what if I stand on one leg… or… uh… finger?

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Perfect!!! Now I just need to Photoshop that image on top of Trump’s head.

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Snorkeling babies, conspiring balloons, fancy cakes, and sunsets…

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Okay, that bay is not really snorkeling… although I could Photoshop him into the ocean and defy you to tell the difference.

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My wife, older daughter, and I babysat our friend’s twin boys last night.

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But I have a few photos taken at my new job as a private security officer at a fancy, exclusive housing community. One of the residents dropped off two fancy cakes, one for each guard house.

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They appreciate the fact that we keep them safe from the common people, who will stop at nothing to sneak into the property, including infiltration by hot air balloon.

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Common people are nothing if not resourceful… other than the resource of money, I suppose.

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I know, another stupid sunset photo.

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Two balloons full of riffraff, conspiring on ways to sneak in over the fences.

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My younger daughter, Mollie. She is almost done with her first year of college, and her boyfriend is soon graduating from Navy boot camp. Also, this is the only expression you should ever have on your face when feeding a baby.

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Because babies are awesome!

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And every once in a while, nature’s silly plan of having babies stick everything right in their mouths really pays off.

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Why yes, I do have very nice legs for a man my age…

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Thank you for noticing.

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Glass… part 1…

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‘Well, Arthur, that doesn’t look like glass to me’, I can hear you all muttering to yourselves.imageedit_1_9001763846

‘Well, I suppose that neon lights are indeed tubes filled with neon gas, so I guess this really is a picture of some glass’, you might be thinking.

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‘Well, that is certainly beautiful, but it doesn’t look like glass to me’, is what I am guessing you are now thinking.

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‘Oh come on now, that can’t be glass… you are just messing with us’, is what you want to say now, to which I reply: ‘Oh, but it is glass… and I don’t think I like your tone!’.

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But this post is all about glass. This is one of those macro photos I took of a project from my glass blowing class. And I took it using two glass lenses in my camera.

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Not only that, but I took the photos on a glass-topped table in my backyard. Throw in a few magical digital filters, and we are making art from glass, the making of which constituted art, as did the photography itself! So there.

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Things nature might have given us instead of hands… part 3…

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I know, they would be as useful for doing handy stuff… but think how fast we could run!

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Things nature might have given us instead of hands… part 2…

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These might actually be as useful as hands, I do believe.

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Things nature might have given us instead of hands… part 1…

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Well, you could always get the lids off jars at least…

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Another nice San Diego sunset…

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I have started to take double photos with my phone when the light is fading. I take one where I touch the screen to focus the camera, and one where I don’t do that…

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I am not sure which is a better photo, or which is a better representation of the actual sunset.

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So… uh… I guess I figured I would throw a tree in there?

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I made a new friend at work…

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This is Ginger Snap.

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One of the other security officers brought her in, and I got to spend some time with her.

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She is a sweet little dog.

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And she cheered me up on an otherwise crappy day.

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