Other Spheres and Curves

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I was going to use this shot for the December Theme Day until I had the idea for Planet Arch. Good thing I did; it was more fun. This is the Planetarium in Forest Park. The dome with the projector is under the hourglass-shaped building. This ball and ring in the foreground is just a bit of architectural decoration.

WHAT I DID LAST NIGHT: wore a tuxedo; leading to...

TOMORROW: if the pix I just sleepily downloaded late Saturday night turned out, maybe...The Penguin. If they didn't turn out then, well, I got some HDRs downtown Saturday afternoon. The moon is in some of them.

At the request of friend of the blog PJ of Pensacola Daily Photo, I re-edited this to B&W. She's right, as usual. This version is better.

Hole In The Sky

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Another one of those "um, what do I have on some hard drive that I can post?" photos. Shot from my office window. I'm on the 23rd floor and there's nothing taller in this direction (south) until maybe Memphis.

WHAT'S ON MY WEEKEND TO-DO LIST: 1. Clean my desk. (Yeah, right). 2. Edit more pix from Kansas (no problem there). 3. Do all my Christmas shopping on Amazon. (They love me and vice versa.) 4. Look really silly at my once-a-year tuxedo wearing event, the annual black tie fundraising dinner dance for the Arthritis Foundation. I'm a member of the local board and I have to show up. Anyone want to see a picture of that? Have I ever mentioned that I can't dance to save my life?

TOMORROW: what I was going to post on theme day if I couldn't think of anything better.

Big Blue Box

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This was taken downtown on the same day as the Arch photo post of November 21. The natural and the artificial share a color palette and sense of simplicity. Both parts deserve design awards.

WHAT MY FRIENDS AT AMAZON BROUGHT ME TODAY: two books, Adobe Photoshop CS4: Up To Speed and Photoshop CS4 For Dummies (see my favorite books in my profile). I got CS4 several weeks ago and I haven't been able to use it. The new version of the famous software has lots of changes. I can't get the hang of it on my own and I can't find any good instruction online. So, uh, when am I going to read these?

TOMORROW: Mommy! Mommy! There's a hole in the sky!

Thursday Arch Series

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Taken about three weeks ago, showing the last orange tree of autumn under the monument. The highlights are blown out on the left (north) leg, whose angle looks straight back into the sun but I kind of like the way it glows.

WHAT I'M TIRED OF: driving. 1,000 miles / 1,600 km to, from and around Kansas last week, then 250 miles / 425 km yesterday and today for hearings in an outlying town. Damn good thing gas is cheap again.

TOMORROW: economy of form, constriction of palette

There is a companion photo to
the one above today on GATEWAY.

Old Court House and Contrail

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Out here in the Midwest we're in flyover country, as jet airplanes float across our skies from east to west coast and back, literally looking down on us here in the middle. I love contrails, though. They are magical clouds that can create symbols in the heavens.

WHAT'S KEEPING ME FROM POSTING COMMENTS ON MY FRIENDS' POSTS: time! How did I get myself into this? Zooming around the office Tuesday, two hour drive down here to Carbondale, Illinois in the evening, a full day of hearings here Wednesday, drive back to my office in St. Louis this afternoon - you get the picture. No rest for the wicked. I haven't forgotten you

TOMORROW: Thursday Arch Series.

Leaving Kansas: Self-Portrait With Toyota and Prairie Sky

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Farewell to Hanover, Kansas. It looks like you could surf those clouds.

WHAT'S TONIGHT'S DESTINATION: beautiful Carbondale, Illinois, two hours' drive southeast of here. I'm spending the night because I have five disability hearings there on Wednesday. Carbondale is known as the home of Southern Illinois University, whose most famous faculty member was the renowned R. Buckminster Fuller, designer of the geodesic dome.

TOMORROW: back in the Lou. How about a flyover?

There is a new Arch photo
today on GATEWAY.

CDPD Theme Day: Spheres and Circles

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PLANET ARCH

WHAT I HAVE TO DO TODAY: go back to work. Enough farm animals and photographs.

TOMORROW: a last image from Kansas. I must be warped. By the way, there is a growing set of Kansas photos on Flickr - click here.

There is a network full of big blue marbles and other round things today on City Daily Photo Blogs: Click here to view thumbnails for all participants