I recently went ahead and bought an extension tube for my camera – the begining of an adventure that will probably have me buying successively expensive lenses and crying for all the money I’ve spent on pieces of glass. Funnily enough, the extension tube I bought, the EX-25 , is just a tube, no glass, no magic, just an empty tube that passes the info & power from the camera. The beauty of this sweet baby is it allows me to get in much closer to the smaller things, like pretty pretty flowers or a rancid mouse corpse.

I had an earlier Macro obsession, visible here at my Pbase page, I feel now that I am putting together some better compositions, here are my recent favorites!

Best in Show: Mr. Tulip

Weird Bottle of Something Award: Mr. Bottle

Classic Photo Award: Mr. Dandy

During some interient wandering yesterday I ended up in South Boston after a visit to the Federal Courthouse (well, I visited the lost & found). In wandering around I get to this point on the docks where there are some container ships loading up, which is pretty interesting to watch. The best part of the cheesy new “War of the Worlds” is that Tom Cruise’s charater is some hot-shot container ship crane loader – that should be a movie first.

This ship is the Yaun He, which is owned by COSCO – a shipping line owned by the Chinese government.

Here’s a photo of her 11 years ago!Actually that’s not really the photo of the week. That same point gives you a really unique vantage point to watch planes land at Logan. The little turboprops zip by pretty closely but it’s the really monsters, 737s and the like that block out the sun at this point. There were a couple aerophiles there as well. One dude suggested I wait for the 6:18pm Iceland Air to come in which apparently has a sick new paint job. I didn’t want to wait around for another half hour but I looked it up, I think it is this(from JetPhotos.com).

The best photo of the day is probably of this baby, an Airbus 319-112 owned by PSA which carries for US Airways (view it at Original to get a better sense of the scale)-

Another photo of this plane that I have has the plane’s number, N742PS which is easy to look up. According to this post on Airliners.net, that line on the cone is actually a smile! That’s awesome.

I’ve been a bit out of the loop lately, with a lot of really complicated things I can’t speak about here, but now I am back in action. Although I might not ever reach the height of my kitty posts, I am still going to try!
I’d also like to give a shout-out to an olde JP drinking buddy of mine, JesseKB.com - who has started a new life in Cambridge and is writing about all the freaks and weirdos over there, keep up the fight!