I really don't have much to say about this. I love the shape of the icicle, and I love the light reflection off of it. I used my Speedlite and angled it towards the snow covered ground, so it reflected back up and off of the ice. The ice is so distructive though; it's pulling shingles off of our roof.
Not my 365 shot, but maybe it should have been. The more I look at it, the more I like it.
I called the gas company to report a gas leak outside. I wish I could take all of the credit, but really it was the contractor that was here to fix our basement that noticed the smell. I just made the call.
The gas company said that had somebody not called, the leak would have been in their house within a matter of weeks, and they likely would have gotten carbon monoxide poisoning.
We hardly talk to anybody on our street, but the neighbors came over to thank me for calling and saving their lives. I joked that I almost felt I should apologize after seeing the holes in their yard. I'd like to think they would have done the same.
Really, I can't take the credit.
I'm finding myself increasingly disenchanted with the Project 365 group on Flickr. I like to take pictures to take pictures, to see an improvement in my work, and to get critique from other photographers with more knowledge and experience than I have. I'm really just starting to learn how to use both my camera and my photo editing software to get images that I like.
It is frustrating to post pictures on the Flickr group and not get any responses, or even any views, but 100x more so when you deliberately post your pictures on threads that are supposed to illicit comments from other photographers. Three of my last four five pictures have had zero comments from the person that was supposed to comment on it.
I guess I just have to accept that some people are just so self absorbed that they do whatever to get their pictures seen and forget everybody else.
Anyway, as you can tell, I'm on a little tirade today. So many little things that are just irritating the ever-loving crap out of me today. Nothing monumental.
I'm ready for spring. Actually, I'm ready for summer.
I walked around my yard trying to figure out what I wanted to photograph today, and decided my neighbors yard was more interesting, so I shot it through the fence.
ETA: I was stewing over a particularly bad experience at Burger King last night; yes, still stewing this morning. The girl asked us to repeat our order several times, then when we got to the window, she was playing with a cell phone, or one of her coworkers were. This is the second time in less than a week that the person at the drive thru window was on a cell. They got our order wrong, even after we asked to make sure that it was right, and then I tried calling the resturant three times this morning to complain, only to have nobody answer the phone. So I got into my car and drove out there, asked for a manager, and told her everything that was wrong with the experience.
I came home with three free cheeseburgers, the two pies they didn't give us last night, and replacement drinks for the ones they screwed up last night. And hopefully somebody will be told to stay off of a cell phone when you're working. I work at a desk all day and still try really hard not to answer my phone while I'm working; only breaks and lunch.
