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It’s Saturday.. I should be working but…

I decided to post a few photographs I’ve taken in the last couple weeks. First off – I’ve been participating in the monthly scavenger hunt (this is my second month). This time around, I realized what an overachiever I am – I posted my finished scavenger hunt at 12 after midnight – June 1st. The list goes live at midnight – I had all the photos in my achives. Here’s the mosiac:

Completed June 2008 Scavenger Hunt

1. Second Hand, 2. Berlin Zoo Chinese Gate, 3. Ferris wheel (closer up), 4. My Dad, and Prize winning Plant, 5. Quack , 6. Old Rustic Log cabin, 7. Martin Luther and the Headless Rabbits, 8. Tres Chic, 9. Proper Gum Disposal, 10. Look how Strong I am! (How’d he do that?) , 11. Water Wings (motion) , 12. Orange butterfly, 13. Thanksgiving dinner & 14. Very Very Plaid , 14. Footy anyone?, 15. Icharus Vase, 16. Twilight Street view Magdeburg old district, 17. Oktoberfest Yawn…, 18. REAL good IDEA!, 19. Shrouded Angel

and the list:

June 2008 Scavenger Hunt

1. Second-hand
2. Zoo
3. Fairground
4. Going for the Prize!
5. Quack
6. Rustic
7. Rabbit
8. A piece of clothing worth having
9. Gum
10. How did you do that?
11. Motion
12. Orange
13. Usually I can..t cook, but….
14. Very very… plaid
15. Footy
16. Pottery
17. Twilight
18. Yawn
19. Key(s)
20. Eerie

For more information, please see: Monthly Scavenger Hunt Group

In addition, I’ve been playing around a bit with selective colorization and since the weather’s been good – it’s really getting kind of fun.

Day 95 - Umbrellas - the first sign of summer

Day 77 - Johnny Montana
Otherwise, you may be interested in this little artistic ditty – which reminds me of an impressionist painting (taken outside of our pond at work):
Day 84 - Monet's Lilies
Finally, in case you’re not aware… German Frogs QUACK!!

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The Magic of technology…where the unknown become known

While I was on my Thanksgiving vacation, I took a ton of pictures. I got photos of friends, things that I did and so on – most of these I haven’t uploaded or even processed yet. I’ll get there – I promise. Why the delay, you ask?
 

 

The answer is because while I was there I got a nice little hobby that I had to work on. You see, I’m an odd duck (yeah, no surprise) because I like to go to Cemeteries, etc when I can. This trip, I managed to hit two of them. One of which – the Bingham City (ghost town) cemetery happened to have an Boy scout (Eagle scout) project going on.
 

Bingham City Cemetery
 

 

Thing is that at the time, I didn’t realize that what I was going to do (take pictures) would actually be able to help. You see, the project they’re doing is to GPS map, identify unknown graves, restore and preserve those that are deteriorating, and just simply take care of this old cemetery.
 

 

You see, there are a ton of headstones in this old cemetery that are completely unreadable. Cemetery records weren’t kept until the turn of the century – and there are graves here from way before – some from the 1870’s. So, there are alot of unknowns – and more whose markers have become unreadable or just are missing completely.
 

 

Through the magic of technology (and me being determined to see what I could see) photoshop allowed my photos to be processed – and allow us to see a few markers – and help identify some of these settlers to Utah. I also got to see/read the inscriptions that previously were just faint grooves. Yeah, it took some time (in a couple cases well over an hour per picture) because of switching to black and white, enhansing, tone tweaking, color tweaking, blowing up, shrinking down, highlighting etc etc etc. But in the end, a few more people don’t have to be called “unknown” anymore.
 

Broken Cross knocked over Split Headstone
 

 

How cool is that? (you can click on the pictures to see a larger size AND read what suddenly became clear on them.)
 


Someday, I hope that someone would be willing to do the same for me….

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