Last year, I took a panorama of the Manhattan Village Mall. This week, I took another panorama from the same place, but wider and in better lighting conditions.
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Bob
Disappearing High Tension Lines
Not far from where I work, there is a golf course and a tennis club. In the bad old days, these both were just a cleared out area where the power lines and their unsightly towers ran through on their way from the electric power plants in El Segundo and Playa del Rey on the way to distribution points east.
Planners decided at some point that the wires were not a desirable feature and found a way to run these high wires underground. I took this panorama from the east end of the subterranean power line run to the west end where the towers resume. You can see the lines disappearing as they plunge into the ground at the near end. The golf course is directly behind the tree line along the street running from left to right. I circled the west tower where the lines come back up about a half mile in the distance on the far right end.
I sometimes walk down to this end of the run from the building where I work, which is at the far end of the run in this picture. About a mile round trip and a good after lunch walk.
Bend in the River
We’re still digging through the vacation pictures and I found this shot of a bend in the Colorado River – at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I used my Canon A710-IS camera with maximum optical zoom of 3x. You can see sandy beaches along the riverbank beside the muddy river where the ancient peoples of this region spent the winters to escape the cold temperatures at the rim. Click image to enlarge.
A Very Nice Northern Arizona Day
We’re still rummaging through our vacation photos from last month. This one shows what a perfect day at Canyon de Chelly looks like. Verna thinks so too. Click the image to enlarge.
Half of the Fun
. . . when you’re on vacation, is trying to figure out what to photograph next.
Verna contemplating her next shot at Bryce Canyon. Click for bigger.
Wheee!
A couple of years ago, Mozilla had a contest to produce a video promoting the Firefox® web browser. Without taking sides in the debate about whose browser is better, I have to say that this one entry was not only quite imaginative, but very humorous.
I use both Firefox and Internet Explorer at work. At home, Verna uses Explorer and I use Firefox unless I’m testing browser compatibility with one of the websites. I have used Netscape and Opera in the past as well, and each has it’s strong and weak points. It’s more a matter of preference, I suppose, and there are no right or wrong answers.
You can see the original video here and learn about the contest they had.
