http://www.kayakquixotica.com Tilting At Waves Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:09:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/04/24/scary-bunnies/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/04/24/scary-bunnies/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:52:35 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=7663 People have said I can find the dark side of anything.. Well, judging from these strange Easter bunny costumes from a 1996 episode of "The Vicar of Dibley", I'm not the only one. These are some scary bunnies! And speaking of finding the dark side, you'd never guess what I came across while out hiking on the Ice Age Trails yesterday.. an Easter basket!! Now what could be dark about an Easter basket?]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/04/24/scary-bunnies/feed/ 1 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/03/19/pentax-optio-insert-curse-here/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/03/19/pentax-optio-insert-curse-here/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:26:29 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=5761 Is not the Optio by Pentax the biggest shaft ever put to a paddlers hide? I'm on my 3rd. The W60 is the first one that actually stayed working for more than one season. Working, just long enough for the lens to do it's impersonation of the record from Monty Python's Hungarian phrasebook sketch. "I will not by this camera, It is scratched." Of course it is. There's no freaking lens cap! ]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/03/19/pentax-optio-insert-curse-here/feed/ 11 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/11/15/bronze/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/11/15/bronze/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:17:51 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=5461 These pictures are my very first attempts and making HDR work for for me. I took these shots yesterday. The day was a classic dark, cloudy, colorless November day. Both were taken in a little natural area called Pewit's Nest which back in the 60s was still on private property and a popular party spot for the local teens. Here Skillet Creek carved a deep gorge with 100ft sandstone cliffs and flows through a series of water falls and deep pools. When I got home and blended the different exposures I found that you could spend hours trying to get the surreal feel blended out of the final image. ]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/11/15/bronze/feed/ 10 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/06/early-morning-stroll/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/06/early-morning-stroll/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:47:22 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=5034 Sometimes... like yesterday for instance, I'll head out of doors as soon as the sun comes up and putter around our tiny 3/4 an acre yard. I'll weed gardens while the leaves are still wet with morning dew, prune a tree branch I keep seeing in the more active part of the day when I'm in the middle of doing something else, or maybe just stroll around with my coffee in one hand and my camera in the other..]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/06/early-morning-stroll/feed/ 2 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/01/them-apples/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/01/them-apples/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:00:42 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=4995 And speaking of lost causes… The thing I hate about climate change or the health care debate in this country is that it seems to be that no matter how you look at it, at the core it’s all about profit vs altruism. My closet hippie says that in the end doing the right thing is always profitable, even if you don’t make any money doing it. I’m probably wrong but I can’t see much of an upside to being a profiteering, self-oriented, greedy, narcissistic, short-sighted, jack ass .. well, other than being rich of course...]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/01/them-apples/feed/ 1