111: Gratuitous Behind Shot

Now that the weather is warmer, all the layers of clothing are coming off as well.

I love people watching, and I love to sit in a pedestrian traffic heavy and watch the people go by. As the layers come off, the rubbernecking gets its own workout. I've noticed that the number of men who will turn to look at someone's behind is generally a higer number than a women who will turn to look at a males behind. Granted, a large part of this is because women wear those TIGHT, low riding pants. For the record, I can't stand them (those pants).

Anyways, the title reminded me of an episode of the current Amazing Race where there was a gratuitous butt shot of one of the more shapely women in the competition. I guess the camera man was happy he had a telephoto zoom lens. It made me laugh because it made no attempts to hide what kind of shot it was - a shot of a woman's butt, and it was a blatant shot for the folks who like to look at butts. No generalized genders or sexual orientations will be mentioned.

It's funny. Women today are taught to be confident in themselves - proud to be a woman. Many will dress to show this off, yet it seems to end up objectifying them as sexual objects to be ogled at. I dunno. Seems like women can't win. Be proud and show off your feminity, but be prepared to be drooled on and looked at as a sexual object of desire.

My rant for the day is done. Go take a pretty picture :-)

110: Spring is bustin' out

Shot out my backdoor. Complete snapshot. Quick PP so I know it looks odd. Oh well.

109: Me II

So, way back when it was still cold and there was snow and ice all over the place, I had mentioned the idea of doing and on again off again project of sort of self portraits of me sitting in a chair in random places.

Well, this is one more for the series, though in a not terribly creative place. Don't worry, I have some better ideas!

I now feel like I can resume this PAD with a fresh eye and new start now that the bulk of my finals are done. I have one more one Tuesday, and as you can see, I am studying for it.

While in NY, I picked up a remote trigger for my camera, and can I just say it is REALLY COOL! No more running back and forth in the ten second alotted timer time! No more prefocusing on something, switching it to manual focus, and then pushing the shutter! And if you're wondering, it's in my right hand.

Winter is officially over as I was able to wear sandels to all three of my exams.

About the picture: I apologize for the blown out highlights on the right side of the picture. I had the sun on my left, and the picture was taken out my front door hallway.

I have to say it's nice to take pictures again :-)

Soon...

Almost done...
Last of three in a row in tomorrow... well, later today.

I have one on Tuesday, but the killer was this stretch
Physics on Tuesday, Chemistry on Wed, and Bio on Thursday

Don't get me wrong, I'm loving being back in school, but it's a lot of work studying for three exams abck to back. It's actually harder than having two exams on one day I am finding.

C'est la vie!

In retrospect, I think it's good I took a small (unplanned) break from photography. I think I'll get back into it witha freash perspective, full of ideas of molecular biology and how to synthesize DNA :-)

106: Finals

Fooled you!

No pictures
I have three finals this week, and I'm barely going to be able to find time to shoot for Terry's MS bracketing tourny.

Will catch up after I slog my way through this weird stuff called science.