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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Aged to Perfection


There is something comforting in the warm tones of aged leather.  Most antiquarian books available today are used and have lived for a time in the unique conditions of someone else's library.  As a result, these books have been subject to differing amounts of sunlight, moisture, and wear.  Although detrimental to the health of the leather, these effects produce the character which leather exhibits so well.


Sometimes a little wear and tear is becoming on an aged book.



Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Around Trent University


Trent University, I was recently informed, has one of the largest campuses in Ontario.  This is because it is primarily woodland and farmland.  Being a student of Trent and having a fondness for wilderness areas, it was not long before I was arriving at school with a camera instead of my books.

During my first foray, I found a few of these guys in various stages of growth. I believe it is the yellow-orange fly agaric.


I wonder if they are edible.  Not the mushrooms...they might give me a stellar vision and a stomach ache, but these berries look awfully tasty.


Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Learning and Stuff


I have been weilding the camera only a few months now, and I can say with confidence that I have learned something. I have a lot to learn. Like all new endeavors, answering question number one leads to a whole new array of questions. Of course, in discovering just how much there is to 'know' about photography, I have realized that so much of that knowledge is a product of trial and error. In this sense, there are things I will never know until I have taken part in the events that lend such knowledge. But this pretty much goes without saying doesn't it. This is the human experience at its finest; the discovery of something new and the rigorous process of understanding it.

Another thing I have learned is that I like to take pictures of stuff.
I consider spiderwebs to be stuff as well