Meglet Rambles On

Doesn’t this make you feel cooler just looking at it?

Mini Waterfall, originally uploaded by Meghan A.

Today started with an early meeting, and ended with yet another shift on the help desk phones. So I took an extra long lunch break, and wandered around Seattle for an hour or so.
I started on the Seattle Waterfront, near the Aquarium. There are some coin-operated distance viewers for looking out across the water, with [...]

I took a walk along the water at Seahurst Park after work tonight.
Rays of sunlight shine through the clouds:

Sunlight over the Olympic Mountains starts to turn orange for sunset:

A small wave breaks on the beach:

Looking back across the sand as I was leaving:

Last week I wrote about the lighbox I was building with a cardboard box and 2 500w halogen lights. Pretty much everyone’s first comment when I mentioned this to friends was “try not to burn the house down.”
This week, I have finished a darkbox:

Which is just an LED desk lamp pointed into a black fabric [...]

The last few days have seen some crazy insane weather. Sunny and cold, sunny and warm, rainy and cold, snow then rain then hail then rain. And lots more rain.
At least the weather has been a great excuse to curl up in the comfy chair by the window and read for hours.
I had been [...]

And I made the mistake of walking along the water without a hat. It was very, very cold. But I wanted one last trip with my trusty little 28-105 lens, before the beautiful fancy new 24-105mm L-series lens shows up tomorrow.
A few last hurrahs
Breaking Wave:

A Seagull dodges the surf:

A stick is swamped by waves:

A gull [...]

The sun was out and it was almost warm today, so I left work a little early, got my camera, and went for a walk at Seahurst Park.
Somebody built a pile of sticks on the beach:

A Seagull hung out on the sea stacks for a while:

The old carriage house, which is about to be replaced [...]

I got bored the other night, and ran across my list of photography projects I’d wanted to complete over the winter. None of which actually got done, but the one that caught my interest was building a light-box to take fancy photos of stuff. So I surfed around the internet a bit, and found some [...]

During a break at work yesterday, I ended up going through some of my less recent photos, looking for one to use as the background on my monitor. And when I finally picked one out, I realized it’s one that I’ve used frequently for more than a year, and based an entire website design off [...]

This is why I went 4-wheeling (by accident!) in foot deep snow:

And this is why I have a sunroof, so I don’t have to open the car door and scare him away:

And this is why I spent almost $2000 on a camera lens: