About norconkm

I'm a person. I live in Grand Rapids, MI and work as an Electrical Engineer. My hobbies at the time of this writing are kayaking, skiing, archery, photography and maybe biking. As this is my personal blog, my hobbies are likely the primary topics about which you will be reading.

Southernmost Point

[singlepic id=1612 h=480 float=left] The southernmost point in the continental USA.  Posted because it’s just a kind of cool thing to have seen once upon a time, not for it’s photographic qualities. Picture taken with Olympus C-2040z, lens @ 21mm (140mm equiv), f/2.6, 1/320 sec, ISO 100

Key West Art

[singlepic id=1611 w=480] You can blame Michael for making me think of the Key West folder and the recent bout of dumb sculpture pictures.  Here’s another which I don’t have a better name for than generic Key West art – looks like a painted metal snake plant to me. Picture… Continue reading

T-Rex Sculpture

[singlepic id=1610 h=480] Another from the Key West sculpture garden – taken years before Artprize made big, coarse, welded metal structures cool.  Of course, it was also taken with the state of the art Olympus C-2040z making use of both of its megapixels to record Mr. T-Rex in such fine… Continue reading

Cicada Sculpture

[singlepic id=1609 h=480] From Key West, one of the paid beaches, I think, a nice cicada sculpture.  This one was in the sculpture park very near the T-rex from a previous, very old, post. Picture taken with Olympus C-2040z, lens @ 7.3mm (40mm equiv), f/4.5, 1/800 sec, ISO 100

Japan

[singlepic id=1605 w=480 float=left] There’s nothing particularly notable about this building and courtyard in Japan and I’m not even sure what the building is.  I still find it kind of picturesque, probably just because of how clean everything in Japan is kept.  I think I stayed at the hotel from where… Continue reading