I’ve decided the candid shots are better than the actions shots for me.
I can capture action but it’s just not that compelling to me.
Besides, there’s several photographers there who seem to specialize in the action shots.
The new lens came through in a big way:
Bowie Ibarra (aka Julio E. Glasses), Color Announcer for The Texas Roller Girls.
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I was struck by how the roller derby rink was reflecting in his sunglasses. Click to see the full sized image and you’ll see what I mean….
Down on the 3700 block of Main it’s Friday night and Greg Henkel watches over Sig’s Lagoon while owner/proprietor Thomas Escalante takes the evening off.
An animated tribute to the internet people of the world, wherever you may be.
Animated by Dan Meth, with music by Dan Meth and Micah Frank.
The Houston Chronicle’s own weather geek, Eric “SciGuy” Berger, will call in
tonight on Technology Bytes to talk about the science of the tropical storm (Humberto) that’s bearing down on us here in Houston.
Eric does the SciGuy blog, and is a finalist for an Online News Association award.
We’ll bring him on right after the regular news segment around 8:30 CST or so.
Tune in at 90.1 FM KPFT or catch the stream from the station website at kpft.org
Via the Alex Foundation
Gifted research parrot Alex found dead
WALTHAM, MA (SEPTEMBER 10, 2007)””Alex, the world renowned African Grey parrot made famous by the ground-breaking cognition and communication research conducted by Irene Pepperberg, Ph.D., died at the age of 31 on September 6, 2007. Dr. Pepperberg’s pioneering research resulted in Alex learning elements of English speech to identify 50 different objects, 7 colors, 5 shapes, quantities up to and including 6 and a zero-like concept. He used phrases such as “I want X” and “Wanna go Y”, where X and Y were appropriate object and location labels. He acquired concepts of categories, bigger and smaller, same-different, and absence. Alex combined his labels to identify, request, refuse, and categorize more than 100 different items demonstrating a level and scope of cognitive abilities never expected in an avian species. Pepperberg says that Alex showed the emotional equivalent of a 2 year-old child and intellectual equivalent of a 5 year-old. Her research with Alex shattered the generally held notion that parrots are only capable of mindless vocal mimicry.
Alex was an amazing African Gray Parrot who may have even understood the mathmatical concept of zero…
