Yes, I’m alive. The blog is not yet dead, even though I see many other bloggers hanging up their keyboards. I could use a different, slicker, easier platform. I could just stick all my photos up on flicker. But then where would I ramble on aimlessly? Anyway, here are the first five photos out of my quick collection. They’re not related, except they were shot in this order, within a couple days of each other. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/5_off_the_queue/370/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/5_off_the_queue/370/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/5_off_the_queue/370/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/5_off_the_queue/370/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/5_off_the_queue/370/0005.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-05-18T06:21:53Z GMT
Which isn’t where I remember it, the last time I was here. Seems it’s gone about 30 yards further in. The weather while we were there was grey and cold and rainy, but not enough. It should have snowed the whole time. Stupid Climate Change. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/on_the_shore_of_lake_tahoe/371/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/on_the_shore_of_lake_tahoe/371/0002.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-04-26T18:26:42Z GMT
In february, Soph’s company had their annual offsite in Tahoe. The whole company and their families go for a weekend of fun. There’s skiing, snowboarding, spas, food, drinking, the whole bit. So, on friday, the weekend of, we all got on a big bus loaded down with a lot of booze and a lot of nerds, and off we went. If you’ve been on this kind of bus trip (and who hasn’t?), you know they’re always chronically late, beset by delays, and can be fairly miserable. This was at least well-organized, and well stocked with booze. We set off at the appointed time for what should have been a four hour drive. We immediately hit traffic on the Bay Bridge. Fairly smooth sailing from there to Sacramento or so, with just a case of motion sickness. Then, we started getting into the mountains and the traffic started getting worse. Since it was a bus full of nerds, we all had google maps out the whole way and knew the delay was coming. We drank whiskey and waited, and then, past one checkpoint, we tried to get some guys who were putting on chains for $20 to put them on the bus, and nobody would. So, some of the passengers ended up helping the driver get the chains on to get past the second checkpoint. This all added about 2 hours, plus the stop-and-go traffic the whole time. We were supposed to be there by dinner time; it ended up being around 9:30. We were on the bus to Tahoe for something like 7 hours. We ran out of whiskey, beer and toilet paper (not in that order). We ran out of snackfood. The bus didn’t break down, though, and we made it over the pass. Finally. And the hotel was gorgeous. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0007.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0005.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0006.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0008.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0009.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0010.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0011.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0012.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0013.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_very_long_bus_ride_to_tahoe/372/0014.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-04-24T22:31:50Z GMT
Every day. Take the camera out, take some pictures. Nobody pays me. There’s no gallery. There’s just a blog. A blog with typos. and poor grammar. Written whenever I’m exhausted, published when I’m tired of re-writing my thoughts. Some days I’m tired. Some days I only take one or two pictures. Others, I shoot hundreds. The odds of getting a good picture are only slightyly improved on the days with hundreds. It’s more about putting in the work. If I take the time to look carefully, see what’s in front of the camera, that matters more than the frames exposed. I look, I get closer to whatever it was I wanted to shoot. Put the files away on a hard drive for a month, two, to fogret the feeling of tripping the shutter. Editing is hard; editing with emotion is a lot harder. When I look, finally, I’m often surprised by how good the photos are; I’m one of those people who procrastinates because I think I’ll be dissapointed. These photos are from days like that. Where I don’t have project or a direction, but I’m moving in the direction if my intuition. Putting in the work. Skill not talent, someting you have to do to keep it up. Practice pushing the button, keep doing it until I can’t any more. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/all_the_time/373/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/all_the_time/373/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/all_the_time/373/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/all_the_time/373/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/all_the_time/373/0005.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/all_the_time/373/0006.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-04-23T22:09:43Z GMT
There are many BART stations, but this is the one that I pass through the most. It’s also fiarly interesting; a good mix of young professionals, locals, schoolkids going to the city, people catching the shuttle to Kaiser. I don’t know what direction this is going in, and I’m totally not done. It’s a Work in Progress. It’s also the first idea that landed in my lap after I got the new camera. I may abandon it if time doesn’t allow me to give it the depth that it needs. Right now I’ve got a place, but that’s not enough for a subject. There’s gotta be a person in the story, someone not me, because I’m not enough of a narcisist to talk about myself all the time (says the blogger). In other news, many many things are afoot. I have to say no to pretty much anything else that comes down the pipe for the next 4-6 months. I’ve a new version of the watch in the works, various trips, Maker Faire (where I’ll be wandering around trying to keep my jaw off the floor), and of course, big things going on at the day job. Of course, now that I’ve said that, half of it may fall through. We’ll see. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/work_in_progress:_macarthur_bart/374/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/work_in_progress:_macarthur_bart/374/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/work_in_progress:_macarthur_bart/374/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/work_in_progress:_macarthur_bart/374/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/work_in_progress:_macarthur_bart/374/0005.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/work_in_progress:_macarthur_bart/374/0006.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/work_in_progress:_macarthur_bart/374/0007.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/work_in_progress:_macarthur_bart/374/0008.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-04-13T06:23:59Z GMT
