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My Lens – Adventure Road Trip

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Before the Train, One From everywhere

Three images, one from Vegas, Sacramento and Seattle.

Las Vegas: Forget the strip, the treasure you can bank on is in the desert. Odds are in your favor as well. Just watch out for rattle snakes and broken ankles. It appears I found two versions of this flower on the same mountain will taking a causal stroll up a rocky flank. Flower size is approximately 5/16 of an inch in diameter. This cluster is smaller than my fingernail, yet you can see if against the desert from six feet up! Read more »

What I learned at 2012 CES…

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…that you already knew, but don’t yet care about understanding.
create, share, enjoy, save, program, create, enjoy, share, save

Be scared, really scared for the immediate future!
There is a revolution coming, but it a sense it is already here. Reach into your pocket and take a look at your phone. Pick up your Ipad, Android Pad, or Windows Pad, take a look at your “everywhere” computer. You hold it in your hand, you put it in your pocket, you turn it off and on, seemingly in control of the technology you opted into. So you think? You think you are the user and the device is the slave. I will suggest otherwise and that message was quietly the loudest one I heard while moving among the vendors at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a few weeks ago.

For the most part, moving about the 2012 CES yielded nothing spectacular. After the first day I decided the show was more hype than substance. News on consumer electronics that matter can be found on any number of CE blogs. “4K” and “8K” televisions do nothing to do with reality since they are like those dream cars at the show, just for fun folks, the dreams of future technology. I saw some old demonstrators rehashed in new displays. For example Panasonic’s 150 inch Plasma, which I saw at the 2008 show, was no longer a stand-alone “ahh” moment. Instead it was built into a massive display of televisions that resulted in it looking unimpressively small. No thrills here folks, for the most part the technology was boring, repetitive and the irritation was compounded with high levels of noise. Read more »

My Lens – Morning Winter Sky In Montana

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Photography From Amtrak’s Empire Builder

Eastbound in Montana near Glacier National Park
A few images, both color and black and white taken January 2012 while on the eastbound Empire Builder that runs from Seattle to Chicago. Amtrak’s Empire Builder passes through Glacier National Park as it traverses a rail route a stones through from Canada from Seattle to Grand Forks, ND. From Grand Forks, The Empire Builder cuts a pretty trail to Chicago by way of Minneapolis, La Crosse, Wisconsin Dells, Milwaukee and finally Chicago. The route is approximately 48 hours long.

Montana morning winter sky by John Wood

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My Lens – Under a bridge in Sacramento – 34 years later…

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Revisiting a photo location from my days as a student of photography at CSUS.

under a bridge in Sacramento, California <by John L Wood

Under a bridge in Sacramento, California by John L. Wood

Posting this picture while some Chris Bode is creeping me out. Mimosa and quiche may be impacting my recollections later. The mimosa is in Waterford and my hostess, a future giant in Sacramento, Shelly the Real Estate Lady, is to thank for that. Rocking a plane to Seattle.

First Wudz Word 2012 – “texstupidity” Noun or Verb it is about E-Bonics!

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Texstupidity, does it really need explaining?

My new and first word for 2012:
“Texstupidity” also spelled as “textstupidity” noun or verb…
“texstupidity” officially the first “Wud Word”of 2012. it is a verb or noun, (nown for those in the Missouri Bootheel and parts of Arkansas, West Virginia and partsd of LA.) As a verb it describes the act of writing or speaking in “text-ebonics” or as a legal description of said Ë-Bonics anywhere. Also, do disambiguate this word from any reference to the great state of Texas, I also claim the word “textstupidity” as another spelling for those inclined to write the word as opposed to texting it.

Since texting demands butchering languages, accepting laziness while prioritizing the need to “communicate” immediately, it is fundamentally stupid. This textstupidity is often compounded when people try to text and drive cars, do surgery, fly planes, eat dinner and so forth.