New Year’s day ride

I’m late posting this, but I managed another new year’s day ride, despite snow over ice and temps below freezing.  The sun was shining, which always makes everything easier.  The tires make an incredibly cool tearing sound as they crunch through the snow.  I went out a week later but the snow was reduced to rough icy patches and it was tough going.  Discretion and time combined to make my last ride an embarrassing stationary bike session in the basement.  Not the same at all.

props to my buddy Cesar:  I'm sporting his shop's shirt.

props to my buddy Cesar in Spain: I’m sporting his shop’s shirt.

poladroid.net

The younger daughter got a vintage Polaroid camera for Christmas — along with some film to use from the impossible project!  The whole thing was fun to research and purchase and it reminded me of how much fun those Polaroid cameras could be. Still, I’m not trading the digital world for the analog one any time soon.  So imagine my delight seeing that one of the coolest photographers, Dominik Fusina, wrote a little Polaroid app!  Sooo cool!  Drag your photo onto the little android Polaroid and hear the click and whir.  Wait patiently as the picture sloooooooowly develops.  Links after photos.

Here are a couple I made for fun using pictures from a recent trip to new orleans and a few others from the deep dark past.

poladroid -- kona transmission

poladroid — kona transmission

the polaroid never quite took the photo when you thought (just like camera phones today!)

the polaroid never quite took the photo when you thought (just like camera phones today!)

Great color!

Great color!

this stylish bike was outside the hotel.

this stylish bike was outside the hotel.

Get the app — mac or pc:  poladroid.net

Check out some cool photos from Dominik Fusina by going to his flickr stream.  My favorite are the architectural HDRs.

 

 

Back at it.

Bam! Pow! Shazaam!  Finally, a powerful week!  I biked.  I worked out.  Played racquetball.  Chopped wood!  It was awesome.  If you’ve ever had a couple of weeks in a row where everything seemed too much, you can appreciate how wonderful this week has been.  I tried to capture what it was like to struggle through the day in the picture below.  The colors of fall bleed through the image and the textures and overlays let the weight of the world lead in to my eyes.  Delicious.  Of course, I made it during the awesome week — when I had the energy and will to experiment!  There’s a certain irony there we should enjoy.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Photo by Myriam.