NYCLife
grrlscientist | December 23, 2007tags: NYC, holidays, photography
I finally figured out how to use the optical zoom setting on my new camera.
Amsterdam Avenue in NYC at Christmas, as seen from the window of my watering hole. The snowflakes were made by the staff and customers by cutting up paper placemats and taping them to the window.
Image: GrrlScientist, 23 December 2007.[larger view].
grrlscientist | December 17, 2007
This is a picture of my friend, Jared, Christmas in NYC, 2007.
He wasn't too keen to have his picture taken, so I told him not
to worry, I am just learning how to use my new digital camera,
so the picture would not look good anyway. Well, I was wrong!
I think it looks great.
Image: GrrlScientist [larger view]
Thanks for the camera, Karen! I can already see that I will be spending some serious time learning how to use this thing, because it is really different from a regular camera -- the kind that uses, you know, film and stuff.
grrlscientist | September 29, 2007tags: white-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis, birds, Image of the Day
White-throated Sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis, 1st winter plumage.
Image: Kevin T. Karlson [larger view].
This morning, I ran into a little bird at the entrance to the library where I go every day. I was actually distracted, but out of the corner of my eye I noticed this was a white-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis, instead of the ubiquitous house (english) sparrows. Not only are white-throated sparrows the sister species to my dissertation bird, the white-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys, but…