Stormy lens caps

Spectacularly creepy skies this morning…I love storms. Although now the thrill of a good storm is tinged with the dread of losing power, since it happens so often…

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Diane Arbus

I’m reading the autobiography of Diane (pronounced Dee-yan) Arbus right now. She’s a very famous photographer who did most of her work in the 60s. She started out shooting fashion with her husband, Allan, but then branched out on her own. Her speciality was shooting “freaks.” Transvestites, nudists, circus freaks like the guy whose hands grew out of his shoulders (he was called Seal Boy) and the hairy woman and the man that was over seven feet tall. That sort of thing. Ol’ Diane was pretty messed up.

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Ow! Thank you, may I have another?

Received my first IPL treatment yesterday. IPL is Intense Pulsed Light, or PhotoFacial. Let’s just say that I don’t think it should be called “facial” at all, because it’s not like any facial in the traditional sense of the word.

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A bright idea

We purchased our first CFLs this weekend, and have installed four of them. CFL stands for Compact Flourescent Lamp, and while it’s not exactly the wave of the future (LEDs are), it’s a step in the right direction.
CFLs replace your regular old run-of-the-mill incandescent light bulbs. The technology has progressed to the point where a CFL creates the same light as an incandescent for a lot fewer watts. And they’re a lot better than the old flickery flourescent lights that you remember from hotels back in the nineties. They don’t flicker any more.

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