A place for things I found…
These things are neat!
Well, here we are at the end of cherry blossom season, which means summer is right around the corner! Â Here are a few blossom pictures I took at Hains Point on the Potomac, just at sunset. Â I caught the sun shining through some of the blossoms, which gave them a beautiful glowing effect (no Photoshop tricks here, I promise!) Â At any rate, enjoy!
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I’m a big fan of deadpan humor, and I think this guy, Michael Davis, is hilarious! Â I remember seeing his act on Saturday Night Live years ago, which is where this clip is from. He was the first person I’d seen juggling wildly different objects (including a bowling ball and a raw egg!) which adds to the absurdity of the humor, and he is expert at playing with the audience!
Here’s his act on Saturday Night Live years ago:
And on a Smothers Brothers’ comedy special:
This mother isn’t going to let a little thing like the Great Japan Earthquake of 2011 do anything to upset her son! She stays rock-steady and calm, so that she can keep her son safe and calm and not panicky. It’s an amazing show of strength, courage, and devotion to her son, that she fought down the natural fear (that you can hear in others’ voices in the video) of something so huge. She deserves Mother of the Year, or even Mother of the Millenium!
Here is another batch of photos taken in Washington DC near the Tidal Basin. The cherry trees aren’t quite in full bloom, which is surprising given how many flowers there are, but there were still quite a few unopened buds. As you can probably tell, the sun was starting to come out of the low clouds, and so some of the photos are much better lit, with deeper shadows and brighter colors. I may have one more page to put up, just in case you all are getting just about “cherry blossomed out”!
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Here’s the first batch of cherry blossom photos that I took over the weekend, these were taken around noon on Sunday. It was a cloudy day to start, so some of the pictures may be a bit dark. You can see a larger image if you click on the picture after clicking a thumbnail, or if you want to see a really big picture, you can right-click on the image. I’ll be posting more, later on.
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It’s that time of year again, when the cherry blossom trees are in bloom! This year kind of snuck up on everyone, since it’s been so warm, the trees bloomed a bit earlier than usual. I managed to get down there this past weekend and got hundreds of pictures. I’ll be posting the best of them in a gallery in a day or so, but here’s one that I really like. I hope you all like it, too!
“But Yogi, the Ranger only likes classical music!”
“That’s okay Boo Boo, this is classic heavy metal!”
Here are some more of the cosplayers I took pictures of at Katsucon 2012 a couple of weeks ago. Some of them didn’t turn out so well, and for that I apologize to anyone that I didn’t capture nicely enough, or if I made your excellent costuming come out looking not as good. Everyone’s creativity and skill was definitely fantastic (in more ways than one ^_^) and I hope you all get to see these!
Thanks to all who allowed me to photograph them, and I hope to see you at the next con!
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