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Re: Moon anyone?
We went down to Mystic yesterday and did the Mystic Seaport thing, which was pretty interesting, since you can climb aboard some of the tall ships. We did go to Mystic Pizza for lunch (yes, there is a Mystic Pizza, even though it was not where they shot the movie.) The pizza-of-the-day was Spaghetti and Meatballs. Pizza crust with spaghetti noodles and sauce on top, covered with ricotta and mozzeralla and a large meatball on each slice. It was actually very good!
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Yes, but did you see any tail?
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Isn't that rude talking about his wife that way
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Whale tails are today. It will be a two hour drive to Boston and another two hour trip out to where the whales are, so hopefully they will be there when we get there!
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Did indeed catch quite a few whales. Some humpbacks (including a mother and calf,) a very large fin and a few small minkes. Plus a lot of dolphins and a glimpse of an oceanic sunfish just below the surface. I did not get many pictures that show anything, as they go by too quickly for the damnable lag of digital cameras to capture. But when I get home, I will zoom in and tweak a few of the ones where they can be seen. We may drive down to Providence tomorrow and try again!
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Whales are a sight to behold. I have only every seen orcas in the wild. At some point in my life, I want to travel to northern Manitoba so that can watch the belugas migrate. That would be awesome.
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Eve was perfectly happy just seeing the dolphins, let alone the whales.
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We are back now. I may make an online album when I have some time next weekend, and distill out the shots that would be of general interest for here.
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Looking forward to it.
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Indeed. We enjoy our geek and travel porn.
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I picked up a miserable cold the first day that we were there (actually, the cold started the first day; I probably picked it up on the planes or in the airport.) I pressed through it and it really caught up with me yesterday -- I slept most of the day. I will definitely have to work on it next weekend.
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Watched the movie Up in the Air last night. Noticed that the main character (George Clooney) flew into Milwaukee to attend a wedding in Polk County. I know they filmed it that way to establish location but it wasn't logical. (I believe Polk County is where Iago lives--near the Twin Cities)
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I am indeed in Polk County. If you are travelling anywhere here, or St. Croix County, or any of the surrounding counties like Burnett et. al., you fly into the Twin Cities -- unless you own a private plane and want to fly into Osceola airport!
Creative geography is nothing new in the movies, and I try no to let it bother me. But it is very true that when the geography getting played with is your personal neck of the woods, it takes effort to ignore it! (I have always loved the car chase in Bullitt, but I understand how a San Francisco resident would have a hard time suspending disbelief at how the cars jump across the city every time they make a turn.)
The one that bothered me a bit most recently was Gran Torino -- the script was written by a Twin Cities resident about the local Hmong community, but the movie transposed the setting to Michigan due to the fact that Minnesota was not offering adequate tax breaks for filming there. There is not a Hmong community in Michigan like there is in the Twin Cities! (Juno was another case of a movie written by a Twin Cities resident that was shot elsewhere, but confusingly retains geographical names that make no sense. Ironically, both Juno and Up in the Air were directed by Jason Reitman -- apparently he has no interest in letting geography get in the way of his story!)
Creative geography is nothing new in the movies, and I try no to let it bother me. But it is very true that when the geography getting played with is your personal neck of the woods, it takes effort to ignore it! (I have always loved the car chase in Bullitt, but I understand how a San Francisco resident would have a hard time suspending disbelief at how the cars jump across the city every time they make a turn.)
The one that bothered me a bit most recently was Gran Torino -- the script was written by a Twin Cities resident about the local Hmong community, but the movie transposed the setting to Michigan due to the fact that Minnesota was not offering adequate tax breaks for filming there. There is not a Hmong community in Michigan like there is in the Twin Cities! (Juno was another case of a movie written by a Twin Cities resident that was shot elsewhere, but confusingly retains geographical names that make no sense. Ironically, both Juno and Up in the Air were directed by Jason Reitman -- apparently he has no interest in letting geography get in the way of his story!)
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Seamaster & ethelred:
Finished sorting through our vacation shots and tweaking them. Now I have to find the time to run to a coffee shop and upload them.
Finished sorting through our vacation shots and tweaking them. Now I have to find the time to run to a coffee shop and upload them.
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We've waited this long. We can wait a bit longer.
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Seamaster wrote:We've waited this long. We can wait a bit longer.
But don't wait to long. I might forget what I'm waiting for.
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ethelred wrote:Seamaster wrote:We've waited this long. We can wait a bit longer.
But don't wait to long. I might forget what I'm waiting for.
Look at it from a positive viewpoint: Either way, you won't mind.
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Good point.
I went through all of them the last couple of days and took them to Walmart for prints. Now I just have to get to a coffee shop this weekend to upload them.
I went through all of them the last couple of days and took them to Walmart for prints. Now I just have to get to a coffee shop this weekend to upload them.
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Looking forward to them.
Does this mean you've broken tradition and gone digital and colour all in one outing?
Does this mean you've broken tradition and gone digital and colour all in one outing?
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Tradition is falling to the sad virtue of necessity. It is getting harder to get film, and much harder to get it developed. Too much harder to make me want to take the time. (And while I have developed my own film in the past, I no longer have the equipment, the time or the desire.) All of the pictures from this vacation were taken on Eve's consumer digital camera. (Which, to be fair, is a very nice Canon.)
Going forward, I need to decide what I want to do for myself. I will certainly eventually pick up a digital SLR, but my love of black-and-white is more difficult. Simply desaturating a colour picture does not make it truly black-and-white. And frankly I would rather have the pictures natively black-and-white anyway. (Meaning that is the only way that I want them to exist.) I have some research to do.
Going forward, I need to decide what I want to do for myself. I will certainly eventually pick up a digital SLR, but my love of black-and-white is more difficult. Simply desaturating a colour picture does not make it truly black-and-white. And frankly I would rather have the pictures natively black-and-white anyway. (Meaning that is the only way that I want them to exist.) I have some research to do.
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