Scavenger Hunt
Mar. 13th, 2009 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiger_spotAs previously mentioned, we've got a new camera. I'm not terribly comfortable with it yet, and it has all kinds of complicated features I don't understand at all. So I need practice.
What are some things you would like to see pictures of?
Leave me suggestions in comments and I will see how many I can take a good photo for, then reply with the photo. (So fair warning if you're looking at this in the future -- the comments may take a while to load!)
I am looking for things I can find when out for a walk, or possibly on the way to and from work. Suggestions which can be interpreted in many ways and questions with non-obvious answers are good. (For instance, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"[1])
[1] To get to the police station. Now you know why and don't have to ask, but you can ask for a picture of the chicken if you'd like.
What are some things you would like to see pictures of?
Leave me suggestions in comments and I will see how many I can take a good photo for, then reply with the photo. (So fair warning if you're looking at this in the future -- the comments may take a while to load!)
I am looking for things I can find when out for a walk, or possibly on the way to and from work. Suggestions which can be interpreted in many ways and questions with non-obvious answers are good. (For instance, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"[1])
[1] To get to the police station. Now you know why and don't have to ask, but you can ask for a picture of the chicken if you'd like.
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Date: 2009-03-14 01:45 am (UTC)Desert
Date: 2009-03-21 07:34 am (UTC)(from the California Academy of Sciences on Tuesday)
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Date: 2009-03-14 02:29 am (UTC)When you go for a walk, are there any things you see that you wouldn't necessarily see in other parts of the country? I'm thinking of common things like air conditioner units, or artsy manhole covers, or mailboxes of unusual design. I don't know the first thing about where you live, so if you told me in pictures, we'd both know more.
Local Color
Date: 2009-03-17 05:16 am (UTC)Both of them are pretty common elsewhere, but I think of palms and pines together as a sign of home.
I'm not entirely sure what this statue commemorates. It's at the train station. You can see the VTA light rail (which I have never taken) in the background there. The station where I catch my train is the only place Caltrain and the VTA share a stop; Caltrain also shares a stop, much closer to San Francisco, with the BART system. I've ridden BART a few times. The Bay Area has a lot of different kinds of public transit, which means the system as a whole doesn't function very well because of political disputes over territory.
Re: Local Color
Date: 2009-03-17 06:20 am (UTC)Not quite; they also join up again at San Jose Diridon station.
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Date: 2009-03-14 02:43 am (UTC)Ramp
Date: 2009-03-21 07:38 am (UTC)This is at a Singaporean place where we had lunch on Tuesday (we took the day off to take
Re: Ramp
Date: 2009-03-21 10:03 pm (UTC)Re: Ramp
Date: 2009-03-22 05:25 pm (UTC)I wanted to get a photo of the Caltrain wheelchair loading device, but the train moves fast.
Re: Ramp
Date: 2009-03-22 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 04:25 am (UTC)What immediately came to mind was a native flowering plant (with i.d.) somewhere in town.
Something that'll give me feelings of home-longing, if you have a chance before I get back?
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Date: 2009-03-14 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 06:54 pm (UTC)I would like to see pictures of spring blossoms. I'm not getting time to get out there and take any, so someone should. Otherwise - pictures of something that brings you joy.
Spring Blossoms
Date: 2009-03-17 05:40 am (UTC)I like the contrast between the red tree and the blue house.
I think this is a magnolia, but I'm not sure.
Re: Spring Blossoms
Date: 2009-03-17 06:58 pm (UTC)Native Flowering Plant (with ID)
Date: 2009-03-17 05:58 am (UTC)First, a scarlet monkeyflower:
Next, its ID:
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Date: 2009-03-14 05:13 am (UTC)Something tiny and impossibly perfect and beautiful
The tooth fairy
Menacing shadows
(Sorry, I've had about two drinks, and believe me I needed them so I'm not exactly sorry about that *part* of it, but that means I'm now posting somewhat randomly, which is indeed the part I'm apologizing about, so if these suggestions turn out to suck, feel free to ignore them. (Wow, what a sentence.))
Spring
Date: 2009-03-17 05:26 am (UTC)Conveniently, spring the noun is also associated with spring the season, because it's just been raining so the ground's all saturated. I took this last week at Pichetti Open Space Preserve.
Re: Spring
Date: 2009-03-17 04:33 pm (UTC)Re: Spring
Date: 2009-03-18 04:06 am (UTC)A Tiny Perfect Thing
Date: 2009-03-21 07:42 am (UTC)My parents bought me this necklace charm in Saudi Arabia. It's a wee little dagger. It does come out of the sheath, but it's held on by the chain so it'd be a bit of trick to stab someone with it even if it were sharper.
But I like it.
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Date: 2009-03-14 05:51 am (UTC)Vegetables
Date: 2009-03-21 07:43 am (UTC)Re: Vegetables
Date: 2009-03-21 03:39 pm (UTC)Thank you!
Re: Vegetables
Date: 2009-03-21 04:41 pm (UTC)