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Saturday, September 17, 2005
Cloudy daze 
| | Yesterday I got an email with some freaking amazing photographs, allegedly of Hurricane Katrina and associated tornadoes. They carried no identifying information, and were part of a mass mailing of a mass mailing. So I decided to put them up on Flickr, confident that Correct Credit and The True Story would emerge. It took, um, about a minute. |
| | These images are actually photographs of tornadoes taken by storm chaser Mike Hollingshead in southwest Iowa in late spring 2004. Most of them are viewable on the 2004 Digital Photos section of his web site (scroll about halfway down the page). |
| | I followed the links and ... holy shit, what a story with this guy. I've always loved severe weather, or just interesting weather in general. Most chasers have some long ago memory of a tornado or storm they can fall back on as their first interest; I can't. All I can come up with is one day in a park, maybe age 7 or so, thinking I was controlling the wind. I'd wait and think I could make it blow stronger. |
| | He's done that not only with his storm chasing, but with what has to be the most amazing cloud and storm photography I've ever seen. |
| | I want him to be blogging his stormchasing and putting up pix on Flickr or some other photo site (rather than using whatever site development software he's got there.. much too labor-intensive) — as well as selling his shots into the photo stock market. I'll bet those of us who appreciate his work could route more than a few bucks his way. |
| | Speaking of which, I just bought one of his stormchase DVDs for $25. Far as I'm concerned, it's already paid for itself and I haven't even seen it yet. |
Road noise
| | I had my "rules" for yesterday's date wrong, so none of the permalinks worked right. Fixed now. |
| | I'm at a Starbucks somewhere en route from Santa Barbara to Silicon Valley, where I'll pick up some surplus furniture from a friend who's downscaling and bring it back home. |
| | I'm borrowing the truck, with a trailer, from our friend Cliff. It's a great truck, with one exception: it's hot in there, unless you open the windows or turn on the AC, which is almost as noisy at the open windows. The fan noise is amazingly loud. Cliff deals with it by wearing earplugs and turning the radio up all the way. He doesn't bother with a cell phone because the noise eliminates that option. |
| | I, however, have Etymotic earphones, both for the cell phone headset and for ... whatever, including nothing. These things block out external sounds amazingly well. So I've been talking on the cell with an earphone playing nothing in my right ear and the mobile headset in the left. The headset isn't cheap ($69 direct), but hightly recommended. |
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