The wind today exacerbated the already cold temperatures here in South Dakota. The nearby herd of cows in the newly harvested corn field bundled together in order to keep warmer. They obviously have taken notice of me and are contemplating next moves. Potentially revenge.

#photography #cows #southdakota

I have been back in South Dakota for the last few weeks taking care of family things. This is the longest I have stayed here in the last 30 years and the perspective is different being an 18 year old wanting to escape it.

Now I am 48 and planning a move back this spring. My partner and I will even be buying a house. It is still not a place I ever expected to revisit, but there is a visual beauty to it. Things I never appreciated before. It is still hard to justify the ugly politics.

I had plans for this challenge. I wandered around Boston looking at varying angles of the Zakim Bridge. I got some good shots, but I found a better one on the way home.

On the ride home, the train was full. One person just riding the few stops to his destination and standing with his bag and listening to his phone. Uninterested in all the people around him. All people just doing their best to not interact with others.

#52frames #52frames_centeredcomposition #photography

When I walk around Boston, I am fascinated by the buildings. Not because of the size, but the way they try to keep the feel of the old city.

Instead of tearing a building down, they will essentially core it out leaving only the facade. Then they build their new structure inside and straight up into the sky.

At the street level it give the feel of a city around for 300 years. Then you look up and get a vision for the future.

In order to push me a tiny bit to post more photos, I have started participating in 52 Frames. I submitted my first photo last evening. The topic was "shadows".

Of course the first thing I thought as soon as I submitted it was, "I should have used the color one." Oh, well. What's done is done. As I work on my processing flow I also want to post more here and other places more often.

Migrating TFA apps is tedious, but I am glad it is done. It really does show me the chasm in usability when it comes to changing that sort of thing. Most require you delete the old one before adding the new one. Others have now wholesale moved to passkey and it is impossible. And then the friendlier ones where they have integrated a transition flow.

Almost all of them make it pretty difficult to find it in the first place.