We have sloughs in my area. They collect and redirect the rain, storing some of it for the water treatment plant, and sending the rest away from our homes.
This is a short walk from my house, but my HTC Thunderbolt had a psychotic break. I had to stop, take the poor thing to the smart phone hospital and have the battery taken out and put back in.
That's all. Now I know. Now, I know.
But I did score a cool universal charger that charges everything that needs charging. The charger is charging right now.
It is tiny enough to stay in my purse.
Here is the gruesome detail of my little smartphone's nervous breakdown just when we got the clouds and rain that I have been waiting for! Those who are sensitive to such things should scroll past it quickly!
This twig was not touched or moved. In fact I went off to get the camera fixed and to take other pictures for a couple of hours and came back to take this. It was still there!
This gate just grabbed me eye. My psychotic camera actually captured a lot of color on the first try, but this is after the camera valium kicked in.
I am not a photographer. Those people have different brains that do different ways of composing. I will only shoot what I see with my two eyes and only allow cropping because the picture is already composed in my mind.
If it's not in the scene, I can make it there. If it should be gone from the scene, I can make it gone.
Photography is too difficult for me brain.
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I got soaked walking 22 blocks in a torrent today. I shall think of your beautiful pictures when I am marching in it again tomorrow.:)
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Sheila: The arroyos are filled with flash floods, then drain out. I remember having to tell the troops to stay the heck out of those in Arizona! We'd lose a couple of people every year.
These sloughs have water all year 'round. They will never empty. We are only about three miles from the big Sacramento River, and could have washed out any year. This year, however, they finished the levees with 100 year protection. Yay!
Myriad: I have no clue about f stops or depth of field! on my Pentax K100, I would just turn the ring until the little arrow was between the lines! If that wouldn't happen, then I couldn't take the picture! Never used a flash, either.
Phyllis: I read a lot of smartphone reviews and almost gave up on getting a new one: not one reviewer was happy with any camera! I don't know what they are looking for.
Normal rainfall is 19 to 20 inches per year, and we tned to get most of that on 20 or thirty days with serious rain.
The slews in my area (A^2=Arden Arcade) are mostly concrete lined trenches. You are doing much better for sloughs.
The phone camera - sometimes being free of f-stops and apertures is liberating and makes for more natural images. In the ancient days of film photography, a teacher sent us out with pinhole boxed to get the same effect.
Nice!
I lived in Arden Arcade! Have you seen the slough off Cottage Way around the Federal buildings and Kaiser? They have raccoon and cranes...we even had wild turkeys out there. Some great shots there.
I'm going to shoot the monster ditch out here next. It's huge and nasty.
"I am not a photographer.
Those people have different brains
that do different ways of composing."
so ?
" I will only shoot what I see with my two eyes
and only allow cropping because the picture
is already composed in my mind."
that sounds suspiciously 'artistic' to me...
"If it's not in the scene, I can make it there.
If it should be gone from the scene, I can make it gone."
that also sounds like an artist.
just face it.
you are an artist.
"Photography is too difficult for me brain."
so is writing, for mine.
The self deprecation is necessary for not getting to big to improve, and to be very, very picky.
I have been thinking about the different brains of different artists for a long time.
Sculptors taught me about working in 360 degrees.
Wood carvers have told me that they let the wood tell them what's going to happen.
Photographers taught me that it's ok if most of a hundred photos don't pass muster. And they work in black and white! Imagine such a thing!
And my greatest painting mentor was my brother, a brilliant artist who RIP. He taught me when to say "It's fine and it's finished. Don't do any more to it."