One gets these "your list is about to be deleted" notices if you
don't post for about 90 days, so while this is a little premature,
Yahoo policy forces me to post about now.

I'm about to get a scanner (my first), and it's really about
time. I've been using stock photographs and graphics from
free sites to decorate the Halls, and that's really kind of
lame. They're good photos - great photos in a few cases - but
they're photos that everybody has seen about a thousand times.

Having a few boxes worth of photos from Arizona and New Mexico
already, and looking forward to shooting a lot more out West,
I think that I can do a lot better than that. The photos from
New Mexico will be the first to go up, at an url to be announced.
They're going to be a little fuzzy, as the cold froze our
camera shutter somewhere near Sandia Crest. You have to watch
for that, when you're over 10,000 ft: being warm-blooded, you're
not getting cold in the thin air, but the "zeroeth" law of
thermodynamics is going to take hold of any inanimate object,
especially when the sun isn't out. 18 degrees is 18 degrees,
as far as it's concerned.

The photos aren't everything I'd like, and next time I'll go
out better prepared, but the subject is still beautiful, and
that carries through the limitations of working with a one-shot
and relying on automated developing. When I'm a little better
set, I'll look into getting those darkroom facilities.


Joe Dunphy