Never lose a good photo (if someone could have died.)

nofatestairs, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

How, oh how did I lose the large file for this photo. Probably because I burned it to a CD and they are easily scratched and broken.
This stairway design is gone with the remodel. When I was in high school, more people would just do photo shoots with me: They would do cool or dangerous things and I would mostly fail to capture them. Actually my brother was probably the only one to intentionally do something dangerous, like stand on the lip above a doorway in a fencing mask and goggles.

New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

CIMG0498, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

One of many things I rescued from the Half Priced Books dumpster, a book of music from the 19th century. I started scanning it, but got distracted. The sheet music is also on my Picasa web album.
Instead I gave this to a pretty girl to destroy for chine collet in a printmaking class (since it'd lasted more than 100 years already I'd safely say it was archival) and I left the rest of the book to the next class to use.
The instructors were a little troubled, as I used to be (and still am sometimes) thinking it belongs in a library or a museum. I explained to them that I got it in a heap of similarly aged books out of a dumpster, as I assume I will probably get another, or probably could get another, similar copyright free music book.

Good photo/bad photo

PICT1443, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

As I'm learning new tricks with the camera I'm also learning to even more appreciate photos that still look spontaneous, that look like they could be a handheld shot without any photoshop.
This is a borderline one. The bridge always looks like this.
I try not to be super depressed like, but sometimes "what's it all for?" is a question well worth asking, and well worth making up answers.

My "gothy texture" phase

PICT1439, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

I've never been the photoshop wizard I'd sometimes prepare to be.
This is a rotting plant for overlaying on a pretty model's face to make it dark and serious or something.
There's a purpose and a place for everything, right? Maybe.

Electrical line bundles trimmed

CIMG0211, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

This picture doesn't get across the enormity of the situation. This is from a trip to the Philippines. Telephone poles had huge bundles with lots of cut lines hanging from them.
I took this picture when a bunch of people with ladders were trimming the disconnected lines, I suppose they were working for the government there? But they were just letting the cut lines fall into traffic.
And how were these workers involved with the creation of these tangled bundles of wires in the first place?

Cat loves sculpture

CIMG0533, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

I wish I had taken more pictures of this thing. Or did more to rust proof it.
I put up about five pictures of my cat scratching at this thing in a heap of mail.
Thinking about what I'm to submit to Foot in the door 4 this week, and looking at this, I wonder what I'm really good at, or what I should be.

I'm a photographer now?

In January I made myself a goal of maxing out my submission limit to Flickr. I did it, but I had to try. I've always had more pictures than I seem to be able to use or keep track of, so why not? In the last couple of days of the month, I was able to put up a few more pictures and round out 100mb.
It's February 2nd, and I've met my monthly goal a little bit quicker this time. I tossed up a cat show, and I'm done.
So am I going to get a Pro account?
Fuck no!
I'm just going to blog all the pictures that I think I'll want to remember later, so I can see them after flickr hides the old ones from the search engine.