Thinking of Not Thinking

Salt Lake City, Utah, became the headquarters of The Church of Mormon in 19 century. In photo two missionaries were introducing mormon history and tenet. All audiences were listening very seriously except me - because I didn’t understand what they were saying and had no interesting. The left-second young woman is a junior american missionary, she was studying presentation skill from the left-third woman - a senior missionary came from Philippines. They call Sister each other. The badge hanging on left breast read nationality. A 11-foot marble Christus statue is “looking” all people kindly.

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The photo was captured in South Visitors Center of Temple Square at Salt Lake City. Shooting Parameters as following:
Nokin D70 DSLR / Nikkor VR 24-120mm F/3.5-5.6G / 30/1s / F4.5 / 24mm/ ISO800
Exposure Comp: 0 EV / RAW format
2004/07/22 09:59:21

Previous daily photo sharing at Angle in fountains

Church, D70, Mormon, Nikon, Salt Lake City, Utah

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The photo was captured at Centennnial Olympic Park in Atlanta. Shooting Parameters as following:
Nokin D70 DSLR / Sigma 12-24mm F/4.5-5.6G / 320/1s / F13 / ISO200
Exposure Comp: +0.3EV / Cloudy -3 / RAW format
2004/07/18 13:06:46

At that time I was walking through the Olympic Park to congress center under burning sun. Few people were in park, the fountains on square were gushing forth. Some couples accompanying children were playing in the water columns. I changed 24-120mm lens to wide-angle lens quickly, aimed at the nearest child and pressed shutter. The girl in image center was looking the the mouth of spring very curiously and trying to hit the water column before her. Her mother and young brother’s sight focus on her.

Why I chose this photo ?

1 The water columns are very beautiful under sunlight.
2 The girl’s expression and motion are interesting.
3 The big circles in ground and warm colors are harmonious.
4 Intense distortion according to wide-angle lens.

Anyway, pls give me some comments.

Atlanta, D70, Georgia, Nikon, Olympic, Travel

早晨8点的西雅图阳光明媚，到Tirtty去租车，要了Small Car和Full Issurance，要200多刀，还是现代的小车，但很新。Follow Peder的BMW X5一路65 Mile到了圣地Redmond，第一站就到了著名的34号楼下，之所以著名是因为Billg, SteveB的Office都在这栋楼，Peder的办公室在35号楼，也显示了WinFS和SQL Team在领袖心中的地位。Reception告诉我到8号楼去Active Smartcard, Card Access Center居然在地下车库。弄好了，开回35号楼，可以停在Employee Paking Area了。X型的办公楼是MS著名的设计，不过走起来就复杂了，我找了5分钟才找到Peder的办公室。不知道是不是办公室紧张。现在两个人Share一个Office。在墙上贴着WinFS的Core API RoadMap，两米多长。先享受了一下Facility，打印了地图，拿了两罐饮料。

WinFS Team中午有个Team Building - BBQ，我跟着去Shopping, Salmon Fish , Cheese, Tomato, bacon… 12点，走过两个Block，在Samamish Lake边的树荫下起锅做饭。一半以上的Attendee是亚裔，尤其是印度人。遇到两个显然是中国人，都是UCLA的Intern，操练了5分钟中文…

BBQ后自己开车到B 127的Museum 和 Company Store看了一下，Museum比我想象的小的多，Company Store里最便宜的就是软件了.. Office 2003只要50美金，买了两只无线鼠标，20刀。

开出Redmond Campus象市区进发，#1 Stop是著名的Pike Market，时间比较晚了，没有看到卖鱼的，花商正在收摊，其中不少是亚裔面孔。找到了著名的No.1 StarBucks，拍了些纪念照，要了一杯Grand摩卡，咖啡师应该是南美人，杯子耍的很好，像调酒师。Pike外面的1st AVE两侧停满了名车，而另外一面的小公园里有许多躺卧坐立，各种肤色的乞丐，这或许也正是美国社会的一个缩影，不过至今为止，我见过黑，白，棕肤色的乞丐，但是从来没看到黄种人…

Seattle的黄昏非常美丽，我开车穿过1st Ave到了Bay边上，刚好日落…

D70, Nikon, Seattle, Washington