Cassiopeia

PhotoTachometery! (For my non-engineering friends, that’s not a real term)

Anyway, life at a startup is great. We shell out a couple grand for equipment but most of the time use it for non work-related projects. I guess you can say that I’m on google time.

So, I’ve currently held a Tachometer hostage:

Yup. I’m not giving this baby up for a while.

The fate of the Universe was decided in two minutes. But me? .. It took me an hour to drive to the hills, another hour to get this shot, not to mention, an entire week of patiently waiting for the moon to leave the sky enough to capture this shot.  By any standard, I’m unremarkable. So the only thing I could think of to do today was to capture something remarkable.

And here it is:

I would go a long ways to take a great photo, yes, but rarely is the story behind each composition as interesting as the composition itself.  One look at this, and it takes all the ’sass’ in me away.  I’m completely humbled by this moment.

Vegas last weekend, Yosemite this weekend — it’s the opposites of worlds brought close together. Vegas is always incredible fun, but it is still a modern mockery of the past. Yosemite, you are soul and character, the way I need it.

A very beloved co-worker asked me to post this picture somewhere. So it is here. But only because I was forced to.

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“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” – Albert Camus