Living With Common Variable Immune Deficiency and It's Autoimmune Friends
This was taken September 8, when the AQI (Air Quality Index) was Moderate at 95. The air is much worse now. Yesterday (September 11), the AQI was Very Unhealthy at 247. The City was invisible.
Image: Hannah A Keene
The interior of the construction of an 18 story condo building.
What could be in the interior of this fairy hole?
This was taken from the inside of the infusion unit where I receive my gamma globulin treatments every there weeks. I noticed that some steam was coming out of the pipe on the roof across the street.
I found the sunlight hitting the raw 2x4s inside the black iron gate to be stunning.
Posted belatedly for Debbie’s One Word Sunday – Interior
Earlier this week I was very excited to be able to take a webinar class on Street Photography, as I have wanted to delve into this area of photography for awhile. I had thought that SP was narrowly defined as candid shots of people going about their everyday business. I was surprised to find that Street Photography also includes things like buildings, construction sites and dock loading equipment. That made me even happier, since I have been regularly photographing those things in addition to the photos of flowers and wildlife. But I’ve been afraid of photographing people. The instructor told us to just get out there and start. So the next day I gathered up my courage, placed myself on a busy corner with my telephoto (wearing a mask and keeping 6 feet away from other people), and started aiming my camera toward real, live, actual people.
Like anything else, of course, I’m finding that it takes practice, especially since my telephoto isn’t quite powerful enough for some of my shots and then I need to crop, thus losing some of the resolution. And I’m having trouble getting the settings right to both blur the backgrounds, and capture the moving person, even though I know in my head the range of what those settings should be. Practice should help me improve. But I’m really pleased with the start that I’ve made. For that matter, I’m pleased that I’ve started at all, because as I’ve said, I’ve been a little afraid of photographing people. The class gave me the courage to begin.
Photo a Day Challenge: June 27 – Balance
The silhouettes of buildings and a construction site against the setting sun.
The shadow cast by a palm frond.
Shadows from the fire escapes of a 100 year old apartment building.
The silhouette of an American Crow.
Posted for The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Shadows and Silhouettes.
I am fortunate to live in Oakland, California, a very diverse city with a population of close to a half million people. Last Sunday, June 7th, along with the peaceful protests by teens and adults, there was a protest scheduled for families with young children. As it was gathering across the street from my apartment, and families were practicing good social distancing, I grabbed my camera and did some photo journaling.
Posted for the Word of the Day Challenge: Grieve
No people, traffic, or curbs filled with bumper to bumper parked cars. All necessary precautions to stop the spread of the COVID virus and save lives, but lonely. We will get through this, but it is hard.
Zebra's Child 