noticings

There's a little online photo game called noticings. It's about, uh, noticing stuff. The idea is to notice something, photograph it for the game, post the photo on flickr, tag it noticings, and geotag it. Meaningless points are awarded for various arbitrary reasons -- first time post, first post from that neighborhood, misspelled stuff, lost stuff, etc. Info can be found on the noticings blog and the game is played from the noticings dashboard.

Here are my first two offerings.

RED ELVISES

Kick Ass Rock 'n' Roll From Siberia

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Happy Valentine's Day

Heart-shaped window bars

 

What will I notice next? Stay tuned.

More of the same.

Here are a few snaps from recent photo cruises around the Old East Hill neighborhood in Pensacola. 

I have a thing for crisp, white buildings. And repetitive patterns. (Is that phrase redundant?) And stairs. And windows. Frames. Diagonals. Textures.

I wonder if fascination with these things is common to all photographers?

Old Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola

Diana and I explored Pensacola's Old Sacred Heart Hospital yesterday.

She was born there. I was not.

The day was grey and the light was not optimal for photographs, but we made do.

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We started with lunch at O'zone Pizza Pub, in the basement of the old building.

Then we poked around the hospital interior.

There are a few offices but the building is essentially unchanged, from the solid oak doors to the shiny copper pipes.

I could imagine the Daughters of Charity with their white cornettes, gliding down the halls on hidden feet.

We peered, but were not allowed onto the upper floors.

Mary is visible through a rear window.  Strange.

The Place Where I Live

Sort of. The town where I live, at least. It's the street where Diana lives.

I was poking through some of my photos last night and made this my laptop wallpaper. Wow, it's a nicer photo than I thought. The lesson being one should always enlarge one's photos because they almost always look better bigger. So, yeah, click on it to make it big.

new pod, er, cell phone

First photos from my new cell phone. The McDonald's where I decompress some mornings before work -- reading, writing, surfing the Internet, chatting with the other regulars.

And the cemetery where I parked to eat my lunch yesterday. I didn't have time to read any of the headstones, had to get back, but I think it's an historic African-Amercian cemetery. Will research and explore later.

The cell phone camera will be fun. Not great quality but can do in a pinch if, for instance, I bump into Bob Dylan or President Obama. Unexpectedly.