Scattered Thoughts . . .

W e had another rainy and rather cool day today so I stayed indoors.  We even got some snow today!  Typically, what I do on days like today is start at the piano, then do my daily physical therapy, then do some sort of photography or art project, make something for lunch and then nap in the afternoon.  I mostly did that today too but I don't think I had any time at the piano.   Instead of my usual time at the piano, I chose to review whatever photos I've shot over the past month or so to see if there was anything worth sharing.  I came up with a few. These first two photos were shot out the moving car passenger window using my little Fuji X30 compact camera.  This first one is Mt Mansfield from our road.  I like the snow-capped Mt Mansfield starkly contrasting with the trees and grass in the foreground... This next one is perhaps my least favorite mountain anywhere in the world...  Camel's Hump.  There is just something about this mounta...

O ver the past few days, I've been doing some periodic maintenance on my cameras and lenses.  Of course, this involved shooting some test images.  These images are really nothing special but I figured I would share a few of them here anyway.  All of these particular images are straight out of the camera with no extra processing.  (EDIT:  The last two photos did  require a bit of extra processing for the reasons mentioned at each photo.) This first photo was shot using my newest-to-me compact camera, a Fujifilm X30.  I like the background separation I can get with this very tiny compact camera.  It produces very sharp images as well.  This is my O scale trolley...   My recently purchased large scale trolley is up next.  Most people refer to it as a G scale model but, although I haven't taken any measurements of this trolley yet, I think it is an F scale trolley.  It is significantly larger than the trolley pictured above....