Big picture?

They say the devil is in the details. They also say that god is in the details.
My question is: who has the big picture?

Forty-two

Forty-two is, as you will be aware, the answer to Life, The Universe, And Everything.
I can believe it, since the past year for me has included many amazing changes, including the recovery of my photography and the discovery of EFT.
I just thought I'd mention it while I still had time, since on March 9 I'll be forty-three.

Yellow machine

Snow and grille

Yellow, White, Blue

Sunday afternoon

Here is a shot from today from the pub/restaurant where I had a late lunch with a friend. You can see the late afternoon winter sun making a spot and my shadow on the wall.


And a shot from our street on the way home. It is a boring area, but if you photograph it right, it looks nice. :)
(Oh, the bushes on the right are where I took the "Black, White, and Red" picture a couple days ago.)

Snow and sun

Still snow today, but sun too. Very nice day.

Black, White, and Red all over

Black, White, and Red
You ought to see this one in a big print. All those thin red branches, lovely. (Remember you'll get at least a bigger version of my images by clicking on the picture.)
Unlike most I do, these snow pics need adjusting, for the light was really, really dull. They look like mud from the camera. But with a solid boost to contrast, nice.

snow today

And just as we thought spring was neigh, on comes snow today. I like playing with the visual effects of snow. (Or anything.)

Cloud and Building

This is taken on the wide-angle setting of the lens I talked about, Nikkor 18-200mm VR. It is the ideal walk-about lens. Vibration reduction for handheld use, long range zoom. It has very acceptable sharpness wide open, and stopped down a little it is amazingly crisp.

Jet stream

Another one from yesterday.

New Stobblehouse home page photo

There is a new photo on my home page. (This one also from today.)
I only noticed after I put it up how it matches the design colors!
(It is clickable.)

Long lens

I finally got my Nikkor 18-200mm zoom. This is an awesome lens. It is as sharp as any reasonable priced lens, but it has an 11X reach, and image stabilization!
I was working very fast and nimble in a trip around town today, and yet almost all the images are pin sharp. This one was taken in a space of around two seconds. Very nice picture too, donchathink?

Spam Arrest

OK, I finally got royally fed up with spam. I counted that I had over a THOUSAND caring, personal messages informing me about "The Ultimate Online Pharmaceutical". Barf.
And I was using maybe ten minutes daily sorting spam, even after two different spam filters had been applied. And at my earnings, that is around $40. :)
Not to mention the sheer irritiation. Not good for my digestion.
I had hesitated long though, because I really love getting e-mails, and I'd hate to miss any communications. But there is a slight risk to anything. So I signed up for SpamArrest.com. It is a challenge system, a sender sending to me for the first time will get a mail asking him to go to a web site and writing in a word shown in a graphic, thus proving that he is human and that he cares enough that he will use thirty seconds extra.
O what a relief it is to get up in the morning and seeing only the thirty mails I want, instead of a hundred, must of which I must sort out. And not to have to wonder if I really don't want a longer Dick Tracy, bigger eja... celebrations, more medicines, fake Rolexes...
UPDATE: I wanted to extract all the addresses from the mails I have received in the last four months (that is how big my current mail archive is. When the file gets too big I make back-archives) in order to white-list them. I used address-extracting software, and lo: it amounts to 9.250 addresses... I got almost twenty thousand legit emails from over NINE THOUSAND different people in four months! (And this does not include the spam...) Now, most of this is business mail. I am not that popular. :)