While looking for pictures for a forthcoming post on boys and girls at play, I came across this photo that I took in downtown Chicago last November. We were protesting abortion at Daley Plaza that day, and they were repaving Clark Street.
Rough Grooved Surface. Sounds about like how I feel right now at this point in the Great Fast. Come, Holy Steamroller, and repave my soul!
Thanks, Matt. Seems I’ve been “tagged” and now I have to tell six weird things about myself as well as “tag” six friends—that is to say, six people who will have been my friends up until I impose this sort of “chain letter of weirdness” on them.
So, six weird things about me:
I was delighted recently to find an incoming link to Square Zero from the photography blog Benra in an article called “What’s Buggin’ You?”. The article included a link to my post, “Insect Photos”. I thought I’d share a few more of them.
This first set were shot with a Canon Powershot SD450, which I recently acquired—all except the photo of the spider in its web, which was shot with a Digital Rebel XT. Click on the thumnails for the full view.
This next were all shot with the Rebel at the butterfly garden at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago: (more…)
Rob over at Cockeyed.com has posted some great high-res, close-up insect photos. I thought I’d post some of mine (click on a thumbnail for a high-res version).
The first of these was shot with a Canon Powershot S300. The others were shot with a Canon Digital Rebel XT. And yes, I know spiders aren’t insects. But they are bugs.