William and Nicole Got Married

For once... I forgot my camera... WTH?


Lined Up


Practice at Sunset

Sunset

Sunset

That isn't a lake at the bottom. Instead, it is the roof of my car.

Gecko

 

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In Need of a Sedative

Have not slept well the past week... I have been the on call DBA. So I have the pager. Monday we joked things seem to be worse when I have it. Well... this week has been a shining example.

Monday: OVIEW had issues starting at 5:15-ish. I had seen that behavior before and applied the previous fix. The monitoring showed a half dozen recoveries. So I went home. Well, on the way home it got much, much worse. So bad it was actually unavailable... but for only a couple minutes. :( I didn't go to bed until 1am because I was trying to figure out what went wrong.

Wednesday: Starting at 6pm, redux of Monday. Amy worked on that for me, but I ended up staying up until 1am again looking at logs trying to figure out what was the issue.

Thursday: "Emergency" restart of OVIEW to be more proactive. Didn't get to sleep until 3am.

Saturday: A node in OVIEW crashed. (Middle of the day so thankfully no loss of sleep.)

Sunday: A node in OVIEW failed its 3am restart. This might signal the same cause of the issue in Monday and Wednesday.

Ugh.

Thankfully I get to hand off the pager to a coworker tomorrow.

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Lives Intertwined

Britt and Adrianne with Minister

Had fun at Britt and Adrianne's wedding on Saturday. It was my first time pretending to know what I am doing with a camera and tripod. Adrianne is happy with the results, so I am happy. Photographing more weddings and learning from my mistakes will make me better.


Rings

Home Again

 

Had a great visit with family over the past week. I really do love my family. I ought to visit more often. After all, the point of not moving too far away was to make it EASIER to visit. Maybe I do live too far away?

The extended family is all over the world and visits my grandmother much less than I do. I could call, email, or chat through Facebook more. :)

Checking me out

Blog title...

Obama and McCain

Obama and McCain
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

Politics ruin a good meal.

Zeroed In

Zeroed In
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

I took this picture by reducing the amount of light in camera because the one with a normal level got washed out. Interesting effect.

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Burnout

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Morning Dew

Took this the other morning with digital macro and angled for the light reflections.

Stairwell in parking deck

Night Fairy

Took this tonight. I like the result. No tripod. Just steadied on a knot on the tree and relying on the image stabilization gyros.

Purple Orchid

Unforgiven

Unforgiven
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

Orange Illumination

Orange Illumination
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

I was hoping to get a shot of some lightning.

Joey Hungry

Underneath

Underneath
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

Orange Moth

Orange Moth
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

Found this one on the side of a black SUV door. The shiny reflective surface a cool effect.

Weird Moth

Weird Moth
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

I meant to research the species of this one.

Cloudy Sunset

Cloudy Sunset
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

Sorry... I didn't mean to not post any photos for a long time.

Brain Magic

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Dancing with the universe

We need a 4th DBA / technical support person

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Palazzo By Day

Palazzo By Day
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

My second favorite shot of the whole trip. The palm tree placement was intentional. The Sun was reflected off the windows down at me.

NCC-1701-D

NCC-1701-D
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

No flash lets one see the lights better than with flash.

Taken at the Star Trek: The Experience at the Hilton in Las Vegas. If you want to catch it, then you need to go by there before September 1 when it closes. :(

Palazzo

Palazzo
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

A little fake Venice in the middle of the desert. The egregious waste
of water here in the middle of the desert was sickening. Makes me feel
like a liberal.

Wary

Wary
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

He or she very carefully sat still and watched me take pictures. Later, I touched the back of the shell to cause a hiss and retreat back into the shell.

This is my new favorite.

Oh! Snap! In your face!

Bored at Work?

According to Dr Eichele of Norway and Dr Stefan Debener of the UK, when the brain switches to autopilot is when we are likely to start making mistakes. The brain economizes by shifting electrical activity from the prefrontal cortex (attention) to the default mode network.

I can't want for them to figure out brains which sit in the default mode network are more likely to develop Alzheimer's or dementia. :)

A Phlox on Your House

A Phlox on Your House
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

I liked the dew on the petals. :)

@ State Botanical Garden of Georgia

UGA Pres defends speaker choice

Judge Clarence Thomas is the perfect choice to speak at UGA's graduation. He is from Georgia. He has a unique view of national coverage for sexual harassment scandals. So Judge Thomas shows it is possible for stupid scandals of the past to net awesome book deals.

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March Flower Madness

White Cherry Blossom

Purple Japanese Magnolia

White Japanese Magnolia

Near Full Moon

Near Full Moon
Originally uploaded by Ezra F

From back on Feb 18th. This was a practice shot for the Lunar Eclipse
which I didn't shoot. I saw clouds rolling in and assumed the shoot
was a bust. Turns out it was fairly clear. :)

Exhausted

Bad joke, I know... Contrails are jet exhaust. The flags are hanging limp because the exhausted wind stopped blowing.

Rays

Loved how the leaf stood out as I stepped over it, so I went back to snap the picture.