Giant Soccer, originally uploaded by nate_marsh.

Waiting for some peeps in NYC I saw some soccer team warming up and kicking around a giant soccer ball – they had a crazy flag that said ‘Chinatown Soccer Club’. What made it all the better was that it looks and moves similar to a real ball, knocking people over and causing mayhem but luckily making the perspective amusing in these photos…

turkeysz, originally uploaded by nate_marsh.

For many, Valentine’s Day is a special occasion to spend with your loved ones or robot pals. For me it’s always been about the turkeys, which made this day extra special for me.

While walking with my special lady around Brookline, we came across a group of 20+ wild turkeys! We are not talking about the uber-fancy sprawling-estate section of Brookline, it was still very residential, right next to the D line – right here actually:

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It was pretty cool to see all the birds, not particularly attractive animals but scraggly and resourceful critters.It was hard to take very good photos because of where they were standing but you are not missing too much, trust me.

After a few minutes, a common housecat wandered into the scene. As this photo shows the cat was initially pretty mellow – he had obviously dealt with birds before. For a minute I thought they would turn out to be great friends – then he tried to start a little trouble. They backed off for a second but eventually realized through their collective pea-sized brain that the odds were in their favor and chased the fellow off. Not much else happened after that, they are probably still there, pecking at stuff.

More pictures here…

Gordion Panorama, by nate_marsh.

I have finally got to playing with some of my photos from Turkey. This panorama is 14 stitched images. I had initially had some problems lining up the images and adjusting the levels, I ran this through Adobe Photoshop CS3’s new Photomerge and (5 minutes later) this big boy was produced.
I did some cropping and light color correction but I am pretty happy with the image so far, the images fit almost perfectly. Need to fix the sky a bit, but I like the spread. Click on “All Sizes” to see the original image. There’s noticeable compression but not terrible. I’ll try to pretty it up a bit later this week.