Reel Geek

The warmer weather means cycling is not just to get from point a to point b, it means taking a few hours when I can to ride down the lakefront trail.

Having a mobile phone that takes some pretty decent pictures, even if it’s only 3 mega pixels, is sort of a double edged sword. The cyclist in me wants to go full speed ahead while the shutterbug in me wants to stop constantly. So what I’ve been doing is cycle as long as I can and use my break in the middle to snap some shots. That means I cycle a bit further each time I go out and find new places to photograph.

Pictured here are Belmont and Diversey Harbors.

I’m not entirely certain why London is thought to be a city covered in fog. I remember prior to moving there that people said I would get tired of the constant fog, which is made even more hilarious since I was living in San Francisco at the time.

Now London is in what I’d like to call a constant state of either raining or just about to rain. That almost constant melancholy gray, which I suppose that’s what they were really talking about. Yeah there was fog some mornings, but nothing even remotely like watching it roll in almost every day in SF or even here in Chicago.

About a month ago, I walked to work in this amazingly thick fog coming off the lake. The only downside was I had to wait until lunchtime to pop over to the lake and only had my mobile phone with me. The pictures came out ok though. These are untouched camera originals.

It’s interesting the kind of shot you can get with a mobile phone (palm pre), contorted, unable to move, 1 handed, and having a needle repeatedly jabbed into your leg. The photo is an untouched original.

Last weekend for my birthday my friend gave me a new tattoo. It’s not fully finished, but it’ll be kitten paws going from my heel spiraling up my shin to the side of my knee. That brings the count up to 9 and quite a few more to come. \o/

Taken with my Palm Pre, at night, and slightly toasted.

I recently bought a bicycle and have been cycling down the trail along the lake any day that it isn’t too nasty outside. I always seem to stop and rest about the same spot. This is a pic taken with my mobile of it.