Opposite views from opposite sides of the pond

No matter where you turn in the media, there are a LOT of people offering up a 9/11-related post this week. Here’s mine …

“Beauty,” Margaret Hungerford once suggested, “is in the eyes of the beholder.” I suspect the same could be said for icons … which is how I feel about my disagreement with Britain’s Jonathan Jones over a photo taken that day by photographer Thomas Hoepker, an image that, according to Jones, “is becoming one of the iconic photos of 9/11.”

I disagree.
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Tags: photography, terror & war by Jeff McDonald
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Bad timing at the railroad crossing

If you live near me and had to wait a few extra minutes for an ambulance yesterday, I might have an explanation. Yes, the sirens were sirening and the lights were flashing, but trains still have the right of way. At least this one did. It was a very slow, long freight train. Fortunately, by the time the ambulance showed up, the train was almost past.

Tags: health & medical, photography by Scott Stein
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The wind cries suburbia

One of my favorite OCD-friendly hobbies is to make Flickr “galleries.”

Flickr galleries allow users to hand-pick other users’ photos for display. I’ve assembled a few of these over the past two years and would like to share them with you.

The Wind Cries Suburbia

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Tags: ends & odd, photography by Michael Cade
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Ice on Japanese Maple

Tags: environment & nature, photography by Scott Stein
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A tale of the wild West — Boston Mark and the hunt for opals

I’ve always liked a good adventure, so it seems fitting that when choosing a honeymoon destination, a 2,000-mile drive through the desert would win over a week of sitting by a pool sipping neon-bright, over-garnished cocktails.

Of course, my husband and I didn’t have to take it the extreme, but naturally we did.

When we got the news that his friend was to be married in Scottsdale, AZ, my terrible sense of direction made me blurt, “Isn’t Arizona near Nevada?” Always willing to hear my schemes, my husband Joe answered, “Yes,” with intrigue and curiosity.

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Tags: photography, travel & foreign lands by Nicole Ball
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Picture This: Sharing a link and a laugh

I’ve always thought my yearbook photo looked a little dorky, with the haircut and the glasses that were on the cutting edge of fashion back then, twenty-million-or-so-years ago. But then, along comes this post from aceonlineschools.com … and I get to thinking, “maybe my photo isn’t so bad, after all” … well … at least not as bad as SOME of what they’ve labeled “30 Awesomely Bad School Portraits.”

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Tags: photography by Jeff McDonald
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