Moments in Time Photography
Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lync), I have one machine that does not show the network manager applet (mn-applet) in the Gnome panel after login. Adding the notification area to the panel as suggested here does not work.
Try this:
> restart network-manager
This starts the network manager again and, for whatever reason, makes the network manager applet show up again.
Airports, to me at least, tend to be very technical looking. There is nothing wrong with this, I can find incredible beauty in these man-made constructs.
But I was delighted when I saw this sunrise over the airport one morning:
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| Airport Morning |
I love the luminous quality of the sky and the way the dramatic clouds are making way for the blue sky (or is it the other way around?). The ground mist softens up the shapes of buildings, airplanes, and other artifacts of man just enough to make it clear that everything is part of nature, whether we realize it or not.
I’m a bit behind with my photos, so here is another one from the fall:
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| Stormy Landscape |
We were visiting friends and as I looked out the window, the incredible light in the storm clouds caught my attention. Fortunately, my friends know me and did not comment when I grabbed my camera and ran to the door.
A few hundred meters further lay some fields, which made a wonderful counterweight to the clouds in the sky. While I was still standing and thinking about the composition, the sun broke through the clouds and shone on the grass below. In that moment, everything came together and I simply pressed the shutter release.
Autumn has been around for a few weeks now, and for the last two weeks or so, we’ve had some pretty fantastic light, especially in the morning. And for the last two weeks or so, I have either been unable to shoot at all or the images did not turn out the way I wanted them.
You can image my delight when, this weekend, I finally got everything just right …
This one was taken very early:
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| Autumn Road |
and this one later, when the sun was already up a bit, but still mostly behind clouds:
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| Autumn Treescape |
Both are the same row of trees, jut very different perspectives.
