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Photo-day

Posted by Mark | Filed under Art, Life

Ariesna and I went out walk­ing today. Partly because I have a cou­ple dozen rolls of unused film col­lect­ing dust, but mostly because AWelkin will get a chance to see Iwahara-san & Keki-san at a con­fer­ence this month. Why is that impor­tant? Well, they were fab­u­lous to all of us who went on the trip to Japan last sum­mer that I feel the need to extract some hos­pi­tal­ity vengeance upon them. :D

Around 1pm, we headed out and started today’s walking/photography adven­tures. We went over to the Iowa River & Power Company’s park­ing lot and I started tak­ing pic­tures of the river, some trees the remains of the dam¹. How­ever the main rea­son we were there is I’d heard from a co-worker that there’s a big nest of eagles in that area. We’d prob­a­bly been there about half an hour with­out see­ing any­thing when some other peo­ple came up with binoc­u­lars. From what we could over­hear them say­ing; they were com­ing to try and see the eagles too. So I asked them about the eagles and they pointed the nest out to us². We chat­ted with them for a cou­ple of min­utes and they men­tioned some other areas around town we could go to look for eagles. Then we started walk­ing away and spot­ted an eagle a bit fur­ther up the river. I prob­a­bly shot 15–20 pic­tures using my 35mm cam­era and I know some of them weren’t focused that well. Hope­fully, at least one or two will turn out nicely. We left shortly after that and went to a cou­ple of the parks over in Iowa City and then down by the Iowa River and the UofI’s Art museum. It was a lot more walk­ing than we usu­ally do, but it was a good time.

I only ended up using about 2 rolls of film (~50 total pho­tos) but I also took some shots with my dig­i­tal cam­era. The image attached to this post (and now added to the Gallery) was the last photo I took today, as we walked back to the car. I’m start­ing to feel a bit tired, so that’s all for now.

¹ They’ve torn a good chunk of it down, but I’m pretty sure the plan is to rebuild it.
² To give credit where credit is due, Ariesna had spot­ted it but from the descrip­tion I’d got­ten; I told her that was too small to be it. Besides, we hadn’t seen any eagles near it or any­where on the river.

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