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Powell Library Clock
2009-03-23
The clock in the main reading room of Powell Library at UCLA. I had wanted to get a shot of the whole room but it's just too big for my 18mm lens, so I tried to focus on this neat clock. I really like it because the strange angles of the ornate, vaulted ceiling alongside the featureless wall make it hard to tell what the perspective is.
[ last year - http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/Year1/i-Vn8xhrL ] One of my first really cool shots after buying my macro lens!
![<span id="date">_11/19/10_</span> <span id="title">Rotunda</span>
Here's my first super wide angle daily, using the Tokina 11-16 I rented. I had promised another for yesterday, but I did my entry for <a href="http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=183504">DSS #64</a> instead.
This is the rotunda in Powell Library at UCLA. It's pretty vast, so it's a good subject for an ultra wide lens. I shot a few other places on campus that I thought might benefit from this lens, but conditions were pretty bad.
This is the last SLR daily photo for a week - tomorrow we fly to Hawaii! Thanks for all the well wishes. I'll try to keep posting daily photos via iPhone during the trip.
Cheers!
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#718573502_DvNZq">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Powell220/i-2nL59WX/2/b142b868/Ti/2010-11-19%20Rotunda-Ti.jpg)
![<span id="date">_09/02/10_</span> <span id="title">Hearty Pages</span>
Get it? The pages look like a heart. It's very clever. I am sure I am the first person to have thought of it.
Sarcasm aside, it does look cool and I wanted to give it a try myself. Turns out the pages don't align themselves very well when you do so many, although that might be due to the super-thin pages of this Bible that I used for the shot. I actually kind of like the irregularity.
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#638085989_X5Nco">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Powell220/i-KL6xkG2/3/8d947f4c/Ti/2010-09-02%20Hearty%20Pages-Ti.jpg)
![<span id="date">_06/27/10_</span> <span id="title">Typing</span>
As you may have seen from <a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year3/11272102_ACXDJ#914606053_3Sv6K">yesterday</a>'s photo, my parents came to visit! It was a short visit but we had a good time. They brought me some things that belonged to my grandfather, including a Remington Standard typewriter. It's not super-old, but it is fully manual. For this photo, I used my macro lens and a simple on-camera bounce flash while pressing down some of the keys. It's such a mechanically complex piece of equipment - I'll certainly take some more photos of it in the future.
At the risk of making some of you feel extra old, I'm pretty sure I'd never used a typewriter until yesterday! If I have, I don't remember it. It's fun, though - the main thing that struck me is how much harder you have to press the keys compared to a computer keyboard.
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#575803468_ZQi8P">[last year]</a> <em>rawr...</em>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Powell220/i-FWVHVdr/3/5066a31f/Ti/2010-06-27%20Typewriter-Ti.jpg)
306887Verbeast
on March 24, 2009Very nicely done and ditto withe everyone here is saying.
agilitypics
on March 24, 2009Excellent shot, the composition is just perfect!
Joe Gallagher
on March 24, 2009Like the balance between the ceiling and the wall….nicely done
Dianne M. Ward
on March 24, 2009I like this, the composition is very good.