New site (for now)

[katallison]

While I'm trying to figure out how I want to set up a more permanent photoblog, I've stuck a few pictures up at http://photons.my-expressions.com/ to see how that works. Expressions is a remotely-hosted photoblog service that has some nice functions and is pretty easy to set up. The coding is a mess of nested tables, but ... ::waving hand in an I'll deal with that later manner:: The photos are from a big lovely wet snowfall we had here a couple of weeks ago. If the site seems to be stable and functional, I'll pull a few more things out of my backlog and stick them up there as well.

Comments

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

Wow! Those are absolutely gorgeous photos!! Almost makes me wish it snowed around here once in a while. :->

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Those are gorgeous, Kat. Beautiful.

[rhi]

Absolutely gorgeous, Kat. Particularly love the second river one, where you've trimmed more of the buildings out and the road ends up looking like another river parallelling the Mississippi. Thanks for showing 'em to us!

[tracy-rowan.livejournal.com]

These are wonderful, Kat. I've been waiting for a good, wet snow here, but it's been kind of dry this winter. The exception was early this week, and the snow melted by noon anyway.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

My favorite is the flag one -- you did a nice job of drawing the eye in with the flagpoles on one side and the . . . vertical fenceposts? wall adornments? on the other side. Plus the color of the flags has an interesting imbalance -- they're sort of both foreground and background, int hat they're the reason for the photo but not its direct focus.

The river is beautiful too, but I don't see the bridge in the background as ugly. Do you have one taken with more scenery to the right? I'd like to see the bend in the river, if there is one.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh. *Pretty*.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

These are lovely. Yesterday, on the way to work, everything was just coated in white here, and I longed for a camera. It's all melted today, so luckily I have your gorgeous pictures to stare at. That cyclone cage is mesmerizing.

[liaison27.livejournal.com]

We had such a snow day here yesterday except not quite so much snow cover. Where the sunrise shone on the snow covered branches, it was like gold ice.

These pictures are beautiful. The "Trees Behind Anderson Hall" was particularly striking. I like how you made the pristine snow base all but disappear. There was a clarity and depth to it that physically hit the eye - very much as being out in the crisp air, seeing it in person. Good job and thanks for sharing.

[hesychasm]

Breathtaking pictures! The utter gorgeousness of winter there makes me think the cold might almost be worth it. (g)

[ineke.livejournal.com]

Oh, Kat. It's like you live in a fairytale world! Everything's so pristine. So crystalline and completely still (except the flags one -- the American flag looks gorgeous stretched out like that against the white). And I love the interlacing white and black patterns that the branches make in Trees Behind Anderson Hall. They're stunning photos, absolutely lovely.

[jcalanthe]

Wow, those are some gorgeous pictures. This is the perfect way to experience winter in my book - vicariously thru your pics. Thanks! *g*

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much! And believe me, it's much more fun to look at the prettiness from a distance than to slog through the icy slush. *g*

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much, Shell!

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thank *you*! And I do feel very lucky to have this vista of the river gorge as part of my daily commute; it's very seldom as spectacular as this, but always a lovely thing.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I've enjoyed your photos so much that I'm delighted to be able to give some back, as it were. And while I wish you could have gotten some good snow days, I can't really be too sad about the prospect of spring getting here at last please god make it HURRY!. *g*

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the comments, Karen! This is really one of the least "composed" group of photos I've taken, mostly because my feet were *freezing* and I just wanted to shoot and keep moving. The shot with the flags was taken just on the north side of I-94 at Augsburg College, and the vertical stuff on the left is the sound barrier. *g*

I posted a new photo showing the bend in the river; I'm not entirely happy with it, because I wasn't able to get the fine detail in the distant trees, but decided to go ahead and put it up anyway.

Thanks again for your comments! And hey, so when do we get to see *your* photos, eh? ::poke, poke::

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to beat myself into remembering to take my camera with me every time I leave the house; I've got one of those teensy Canon S200's, so it's not like it's *baggage* or anything.

And I'm so glad you liked these--thanks!

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Where the sunrise shone on the snow covered branches, it was like gold ice.

Oooh, lovely. The visual beauty of winter really is the recompense for its hassles, I guess.

And thank you very much for the comments! I posted that "Trees" one without a border by accident, initially, and then realized I really liked how it looked that way.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Wellllll ... it isn't, actually. *g* Except for rare mornings like this. On the whole, though, I'd advise admiring winter pictorally and from a distance.

Thanks very much--I'm delighted you liked them!

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, Ineke! And really, I'm suddenly tempted to go out at some point and take matching pictures, shot for shot, of what each of these scenes *usually* looks like in March (grey, dingy, bleak, etc.). This can be either the most hideous or (occasionally) the most beautiful month of the year, and I'm glad I caught it at one of its rare good moments.

And I'm *very* glad you liked them -- thanks again!

[katallison.livejournal.com]

This is the perfect way to experience winter in my book

Amen to that. *g* We're probably done with the snow for this year (although god knows we could get a blizzard in April or May), and I hope to get some more springlike shots up soon.

Thanks so much for your kind words!

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Ow! Hey, no fair poking! I put up a bunch a couple weeks ago. :)
http://www.mninter.net/~byerlys/Hawaii2003web2/kbh_index.html