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Jul. 8th, 2009 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI felt kind of lonely and disconnected on Monday night, as I lay on the couch and drifted toward sleep, despite the fact that I was among friends down in Chicago. This certainly had nothing to do with my hosts, who make some really fantastic food, on top of being great friends. I just sometimes start feeling like I should be doing more to establish and maintain connections with people, and that I'm failing at that. It's not an instinctive thing for me to do; it takes effort, and sometimes life gets busy or stressful and I don't expend that effort. And then, if I haven't talked to people in a long time, I start feeling like it's weird for me to approach them again, which I'm not good at anyway.
This is one of my neuroses. I'm sorry.
Here's another picture from my downtown walk with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jimcyl. This is 191 North Wacker Drive, a very modern building completed just seven years ago. It has a commanding location quite near the riverfront, and the open space across the water provides plenty of opportunity to grab a huge swath of the sky and reflect it back to the ground in a stunning 500 foot display.
This one's nice, apart from that things are slanting to the right; that ubiquitous problem I have keeping things level. You know, Ken Rockwell may say that you don't need a tripod with a digital SLR, but I'm not so sure. I think a tripod with a ball head and levels would help me make things straighter; not being square-on is really amplified by all the straight lines that big buildings have. At the same time, I'm sure I got around a lot faster without one than I would have if I was carrying one everywhere, so I don't know.
The red brick building in the foreground could be brightened up a bit. Good task for Photoshop. I really need to get that set up soon. (Or maybe it's just my monitor. I have this monitor turned ninety degrees, and sometimes I'm not sure it's intended to be seen from the angle I'm looking at it from and the colors do weird things. It looks better on one of the other monitors.)
This is one of my neuroses. I'm sorry.
Here's another picture from my downtown walk with
jimcyl. This is 191 North Wacker Drive, a very modern building completed just seven years ago. It has a commanding location quite near the riverfront, and the open space across the water provides plenty of opportunity to grab a huge swath of the sky and reflect it back to the ground in a stunning 500 foot display.This one's nice, apart from that things are slanting to the right; that ubiquitous problem I have keeping things level. You know, Ken Rockwell may say that you don't need a tripod with a digital SLR, but I'm not so sure. I think a tripod with a ball head and levels would help me make things straighter; not being square-on is really amplified by all the straight lines that big buildings have. At the same time, I'm sure I got around a lot faster without one than I would have if I was carrying one everywhere, so I don't know.
The red brick building in the foreground could be brightened up a bit. Good task for Photoshop. I really need to get that set up soon. (Or maybe it's just my monitor. I have this monitor turned ninety degrees, and sometimes I'm not sure it's intended to be seen from the angle I'm looking at it from and the colors do weird things. It looks better on one of the other monitors.)
