Where's This Place? The Answer

What gave it away? Well, I guess there's no pulling the wool over anyones eye's with that shot. And I guess we know what my 10-year-old son thinks about it (i.e.--Mt. Snore!)








Yes, that is a macro shot of the top of one of the jetty rocks when my boys and I were exploring the natural tide pool zoo. Its kind of fun too imagine you are on top of a mountain. What interesting plant life with a coating of ice. Maybe you could skate on that Lake....

I've always liked looking at "perspective pictures." Pictures that look like the viewer is in a different position than he/she really is: maybe it's a new world, or it's lookin up when it looks like it's looking down, is it part of a bigger picture, or is it real size? I also like pictures that let you look from a different perspective: What if you were a bug, what would the world look like. (Granted flying eagle perspectives are little boring sometimes because you can't see as much detail as an Eagle. But satellite Shots...that's interesting.)

Note: I've been working on making my picture size smaller for the blog to reduce page-load time. I thought the blogger automatically shrunk the file size, but it looks like that might not be the case--as you can tell when you click on a picture. Basically if the majority of computer screen sizes are set to 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600 pixels, then the pictures only need to be 1024 pixels wide at the most. The pictures above are 800 pixels wide (which fills most of the screen) and less than 100kb in size compared to previous posts where the file size was usually between 1 and 2 mb.

Computer resolutions have a 'terminal velocity' for picture quality, so the only thing larger file sizes do is make the picture super large (which is nice for looking at close-ups of texture pictures, though.) The advantage of large file sizes with digital cameras is the abilility to crop and still maintain detail and/or not having fuzzy/or pixely blown-up shots when you print them on paper.