Verna snapped this photo of me gaping into the Cañon del Muerte near Chinle, AZ. last summer. It was my 65th birthday, and I was really enjoying a beautiful day and awesome scenery in Northeastern Arizona.
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Smudge
I took this picture while on my after-lunch walkabout. The Standard Oil Refinery at El Segundo belched out this huge plume of black smoke and fire – it was scary at first, until I realized that it was a controlled burn of something in the refinery.
I wonder how many cars and trucks it would take and how long, to equal this huge emission of black crap into the air? I wonder if the AQMD will fine Standard Oil for this?
Our Favorite Hotel Room
We have mentioned before on our blog that we try to book the same hotel room when we go to Avalon for our anniversary. This is a photo of the actual room. We spent our wedding night here and several of the anniversaries too. A feature not shown in this view off-camera to the right is a lovely whirlpool Jacuzzi tub-for-two. This year, the room had a face lift from shabby-chic to this modern style.
I threw a little Flash™ code together to get this image to pan back and forth.
Manhattan Marriott Panorama
Now that I’m back in the Manhattan Beach office, I can take my after-lunch walks down past the Marriott Hotel. I paused last week to take this three frame panorama from the northwest corner of the property.
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Garden Courtyard
We went to the Botanic Garden today for the annual Orchid show and sale. After visiting the show, we took a stroll through some of the garden. I got this panoramic image of Verna strolling on the lawn in the courtyard. Scroll right to see the gazebo at the other end of this calming scene.
Perspectives
Artists know how to deliver realistic images by applying two laws of perspective. First, there is linear perspective where things appear to get smaller as they become more distant (as in straight roads converging toward the center of the view). Next, there is aerial perspective where things appear to be hazier in the distance as there is more atmosphere (not exactly transparent) between the viewer and the object gets thicker (as in purple mountains).
This image taken by Verna illustrates both perspectives – she took this picture from the road between Cottonwood and Jerome, AZ. The image is a segment of the larger image – you may click on this to see the full image.
