New photos

I'm back from Alaska. I slept through half of yesterday and most of today -- but I fixed the photos I took :) Here:
Vancouver and Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, and finally Glacier Bay and Anchorage.

( Okay, and here are some preview shots for the lazily inclined. )

A month ago, by the way, aussie_nyc came over and took some rather interesting, spooky shots of Riverside park; the photos are here.

Flickrdrool

I'm in love (and I mean, more than with anna's lovely photography or for david and rayna's work). No, I'm in love with Flickr. While I've know about flickr for a while, since a 'net acquaintance going by "selva" posts pretty good pictures there, I hadn't explored.

And now I have. Over the past few months, I've discovered awful sara. And Alex's color shots. And the sunsets and sunrises group. And the awful, awful power of tags and clusters.

Herd effect?

I've noticed a very strange effect on the subway. When I'm with someone else -- say, pinkrhino or ginnunggap -- random strangers come up to us. They ask for directions and they chatter.

Anyway. The "random stranger" approach thing just never happens when I'm by myself. Ever. But put me next to someone else, and all of a sudden the company gets really enticing. Perhaps it's just that two people feel safer than one person to approach -- you're joining a herd, rather than being creepy with a stranger. So it could be that it's just a group thing, and all groups have people approach them. Or it could be because I hang out with really approachable or pretty Anna-type people. Or perhaps my company is noxious and only bearable with another person around. I'm not sure what's up with that, anyway -- what do you think?

Kitty

Please please please go and see my cat grooming photos because they're sooooo cute. And I just learned about the Dooce effect in Pshop, which makes portraits totally killer.

( Sneak shots )

Thank you.