Another Week, Another Bug (Sorta)

All the insects reminded me of this shot. It's Rob's old Kawasaki ZX-9R, which, unfortunately, was stolen. Even though it only contains about 3 million pixels, this photo made quite a nice 20x30 poster, which I gave to Rob a couple of years ago. He also uses it as a desktop background, as did I, for a while. Now he has a gorgeous ZX-6RR (also in Kawasaki Green), so I need to make him a new poster.
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This Week's Photos

Sticking with the insect theme, this week (and the last--I figure 8 photos can cover two weeks) I've posted butterflies. I think this takes care of my large batches. From here on out there'll only be one or two per week.
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A Photo a Week

Some members of the Leica User's Group have been doing "a photo a week" since 2000--shooting and sharing one good photo online each week. The original idea was to encourage everyone involved to get out and shoot more. So I thought I'd give it a try, but my rule is simply to post one good photo a week.

My goal is slightly different from that of the Leica folks. I've already got dozens of photos that I consider good enough to share. My real goal is to get them printed and hung, but first I need a good idea of what I have, and this seems like a managable pace. It feels like cheating to post shots more than a week old, but, at the same time, I don't want to let them rot on my hard drive.

For my first post I tried to ease my conscience about cheating by posting five photos. They're all shots of praying mantises, and it would really be cheating to post one each week. So I got it out of my system by posting them all at once. Incidentally, the one you see here is my least favorite of the group, so check out the others. Read more...