Make The Rules, Break The Rules

August 9th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

I don’t have a lot of rules about blogging, but there is one guideline that I try to follow pretty rigorously. I don’t do stupid “the weather was so nice today so I went to the park and I saw a bunny and a puppy and a squirrel and they were snuggling and eating peanuts and it was the cutest day ever” posts. That shit works just fine in your diary by flashlight after Mom and Dad are passed out in the living room asleep, or between Harry Potter slashfic posts on Livejournal. Around here, we blog like we mean it.

That said, I’m going to take my one guideline out for a walk in the woods, hit it with an axe handle and leave it gagged and tied to a tree overnight. Because the weather was amazing yesterday. I got out in it for a couple of hours, and by some miraculous coincidence, I remembered my camera. Praise astronauts!

Friday was the kind of perfect mid-Summer day that Philly seems to cough up once or twice a year. High temperature in the mid-80s, low humidity, a steady breeze, and a vibrant blue sky full of big, puffy white clouds.

I just couldn’t deal with cramming myself onto the El with the rest of the rush hour sheep, trudging to the gym, getting all sweaty, and then climbing onto a bus to go home. I decided to walk home from Center City instead. If MapQuest isn’t smoking tainted reefer, it’s about four miles from yon to hither. I meandered for about two hours, looking at things and taking pictures when I felt inspired. (It rained for an improbable 20 minutes in the middle of my walk, but then it went right back to being gorgeous.)

I’m nobody’s photojournalist; I’m a hobbyist photographer, and not a terribly accomplished one. My brain seems to be mostly attuned to shapes. I like interesting lines and spaces. (I’ll stand and stare at the converging elements of a suspension bridge for an hour.) Actual Objects not so much, although there were a few that caught my eye. Luckily, there are a lot of intriguing little sights (and sites) along the route I took, so I couldn’t help but get a few halfway decent shots.

All of that was the long way of saying that I wound up with about two dozen shots that I thought had something work wasting photons on. I threw them into a Flickr set, which you can rub on your eyeballs by clicking on the blue sky below. If anything catches your eye, let me know.

Click Pic Flick(r)

Click Pic Flick(r)

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Discussion (2)¬

  1. herbert says:
    August 9, 2008 at 11:39 pm

    yeah, lots of lines in DSCF0035. I liked the window progression in DSCF0046. pretty pictures.

    as the picture numbers went up the number of clouds went down. you left the clouds behind?

  2. Oskar Kennedy says:
    August 10, 2008 at 10:04 am

    Thank! Actually, it was the clouds that left me behind. It rained for about 20 minutes after I took the pictures of the bridge, and then almost all the clouds blew out, and it was nothing but blue sky.