October 15, 2005 by Gail
Ship’s Log, October 5, 2005
Vinny is Pilot-in-Command with his mother and me in the backseat, holding on for dear life.
There’s an accompanying video clip:
How To Freak Out Your Mother (4.3 MBs)
I swear, I broke into a sweat just editing the video clips! All those nosedives, steep climbs, and hard banking gave me the heebie-jeebies!
If you want to see a higher-resolution version of our bumpy skyride, click here for access to the 19.8 MB MPEG-4.
Let’s backtrack a bit:
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October 15, 2005 by Gail
The cake was ivory and the calla lilies were orange (see Hendrik? I don’t hate orange!), but I shot this with film and with the room lighting couldn’t get the colours to come out properly… hence the sepia.
David never did see the cake (the ceremony was in the Lackawanna Room, the dinner in the Johnson Room), and I didn’t know what to do with it afterwards. The Radisson ended up holding onto it for almost a week, because the cake shop where I bought it didn’t have space. I kept stalling with the hotel because I couldn’t find a home for it — we have a side-by-side fridge/freezer, so it wouldn’t fit. It took a while to find someone with a freezer with the proper dimensions, and that was purely coincidental — our neighbour’s mother decided to get rid of her freezer and had it delivered to her son. My friend Berit had extended her visit from Hamburg to spend time with us after the wedding, and I’m glad she was here to help me transfer it from the Radisson to the neighbour’s house. What a malarkey!
We’ll break out the cake again when the time’s right.
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October 15, 2005 by Gail
Didn’t keep track of what I fiddled with for this photo in July. Just fumbling about in Photoshop, as per usual, and found the pic by accident. Decided to upload.
Finished the image archiving on my hard drive — FINALLY — so I’m shooting again. The sun’s been peeking in and out of the clouds today, so I took advantage of it and shot nearly two rolls of film this afternoon. Normally I take photos almost every day, so I’ve been antsy lately with the Pentax K-1000. These days I prefer it to my digital camera — the major downside is the hassle of dropping off film, picking it back up again, and scanning it. What a bore.
But I love the sound of the shutter, the depth of field (I’m using a 50mm lens, mostly), and the way it feels in my hands. It’s an old camera, but I’m not nervous about it getting dropped or stolen — which is how I’d feel if I had a DSLR. I will get a prosumer DSLR sometime, but I’m in no hurry at the moment. We still have three cameras in the house. My biggest wish right now is for David’s cancer to go into remission, then I can resume my materialistic goals…
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