Feed Me!

A Stone Oak restaurant installed a sculpture in the form of a large fork.  The Stone Oak Property Owners Assoc objected saying it was too commercial. The restaurant decided to try to keep the sculpture by hiding it behind a curved masonry wall with a window to reveal the top of the fork.  I have photographed the piece several times in the past few years, but wanted to do something different for this blog.  Here is the result that I call, "Feed Me".  Comments welcome.  

This is something I saw and thought I should photograph it.  So what is it?  

Serendipity

Last night I planned to take a moonlit shot of a local golf course.  The Sonterra North Course has a green near the Huebner-Blanco Rd. intersection.  I drove there and hiked down to the course.  I had checked the moonrise-moonset times on-line and found the moon would be overhead at 7:52 PM so I was there at that time to get the best light.  It was quite dark, but using 15-sec. exposures I was able to  get some usable images, one of which is shown here.  Later, when reviewing the shots, I noticed the light streak in the sky and took it to be a jet contrail.  The next morning I read that there had been a meteor sighted from South Texas to Oklahoma the night before, shortly after 8:00 PM.  The EXIF file on this shot shows it was taken at 8:03, so I think I might have caught the meteor track.  If that is what it is, it was a true stroke of luck.  I think the moonlight shows up well if you have enough exposure time.  Tech:  Lumix G1 with 7-14 mm zoom, f5.0 at 15 sec.  ISO 400.  Comments welcome.

Unstated assumptions.

If a kitchen faucet is flowing at a rate of 1 gallon/minute, how long does it take to fill a 6oz. glass?  Well not 2.8 seconds if the water does not stay in the glass.  With the right shape of glass and the right input parameters the answer is never. 

Bovine Topologists

We are learning that some animals are much smarter than previously suspected.  For example, I read this week that experiments with pigeons showed they can effectively count objects and rank them by number of elements.  Before this research it was assumed that was a talent possessed only by primates.   So I am wondering:  Just how much do we know about the intelligence of other critters.  Could a raccoon understand algebra?  Maybe even calculus?   And cows are not considered the Einsteins of the animal kingdom, but how do we know they do not understand topology and just cannot let us know what they know.  After all, how much information can you convey when your only word is "Mooo"?  This photo is of a couple of cow pals who know what they see and are no doubt contemplating and discussing the four-dimensional reality of the 3D figure.  Hey!  It could happen.

B/W Building

OK, so there is this office building on Sonterra Blvd. at the entrance to Reagan HS.  I photographed it just after it was completed and went back yesterday to do it again.  I think it renders well in B/W.  The sculpture in front is a uniform metallic finish.  The contrasting shades are just due to reflected light.   Comments welcome.

Six Elevens

I took a shot like this last year at 10:10:10 on 10/10/10, so it seemed logical to repeat this year at 11:11:11 on 11/11/11.   I was all set to shoot it at the morning opportunity, but got distracted and didn't make the deadline, so had to catch the 11 PM case.  The photo is self-authenticating.  Couldn't have been shot before the 11th because the newspaper was not printed yet.  Couldn't be shot at after the 11th because it is being posted to the blog today before 10 AM.  The watch is radio controlled and has no manual setting.  Besides, what would be the point of faking it?