I have a thing.. for such things
Category: Obsessions, Photos
A week or so ago, a beautiful creature visited our garden. I’d never seen one like that before; fluttering to it’s hearts delight. But it kept dropping back to the ground for some reason. In my expe honest opinion, I thought it would die because, that’s usually how they act. I took pictures albeit blurry ones.
This morning, another visited; similar but not quite. It’s wings were two patterned - violet on black on top, monarch-like beneath. It was stuck in the mud trying to hop out of it when I had an idea…
But then she (because my mind refuses a he) didn’t move far away when I neared her. On closer look, I realized her wings were torn. I reached out to touch it and she could barely flutter away. It was tragic. I knew she was nearing death soon. I wanted to comfort her but didn’t know how, so I kept her company for a while. And then realized I must be terrifying her with my closeness. So I let her be.
Twenty minutes or so later, she stopped living. I named her Maeve, for the joyful spirit that was her.
And I take it back, Diggy was quite pretty for a dragonfly.
Ze libellula!
Category: Obsessions, Photos
I was happy stu procrastinating when a dragonfly comes out of nowhere and goes psycho on my fluorescent light bulb. For a moment there I felt sorry for it constantly ramming it’s head into the light again and again. But there was something about that repetitive action that had me in fits of laughter soon after. When I no longer heard it’s buzzing, I glanced up to find it perfectly still and deathly silent. Poor thing must’ve been dead beat.
Realizing how rare an opportunity this was, I rushed to get my brother’s camera (having to actually wake him up at 1 AM to ask where the batteries were) and started snapping a couple hundred pictures of it with the hopes of it being extremely pretty, colorful and use-able.
But little did I know it still had anger issues. In the middle of it’s photo shoot, it suddenly sprung to life, causing me to almost fall off the chair I was delicately balanced on, only to start attacking the light again.
The process repeated, Diggy (yes I named him) would get silent after a while, allowing me to happily snap away at it — but would soon scare me enough to fall down by it’s insane need to attack the light once more.
I transfered the photos to my laptop and then to PS (since the lighting was very very bad). Now don’t let the numbers fool you, I didn’t take that many. But I have to say, I was extremely disappointed to see that Diggy was neither pretty nor colorful OR even fairy-ish! But it did have an interesting pattern which made me think it was probably related to a bumble bee. 3 or 4 times removed, of course.
Diggy, ze dragonfly
It feels funny to blog twice in the same week. But whatever. I owe it to Diggy.
NEW LAPTOP!!
Category: Photos, Walk of life
YAYY!! I got my new laptop!! A few days ago. It’s a Toshiba M 105/100 Model something. I don’t know much about laptops, but I’m fairly satisfied with it hehe. I love how I don’t have to connect my camera and how everything is suddenly so convenient. But I see more detail since the screen is unbelievably bright compared to my computer (I think it’s monitor needs to be sent to that great big computer heaven in the sky).
And how the colors are bit more different and the resolution is so wide! 1280 x 800.. suddenly everything on my computer looks so big. But it’s something I can deal with. Hehe.
A little showing off, here are some photos I took of it (actual size) :
I still have to install so many programs. And only recently my brother reformatted my computer’s hard disc.. so I’ve got to reinstall programs THERE too.. blah.
Other than that, there’s not much going on really. I’ve just been productively bored lately.