jgrussell – my world

A little bit of graffiti on the wall of a closed auto shop…

Graffiti

“We are Virginia Tech,” the plaque reads. “We will prevail.”

Thirty-two stones stand in a semi-circle on the drill field on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. They are called Hokie stones, and each one stands for a life senselessly cut short in a shooting rampage on the campus on April 16, 2007.

1. The memorial in front of Burruss Hall

Memorial at Burruss Hall

2. Nicole Regina White anchors one side

Anchoring one side

3. Brian Roy Bluhm anchors the other side

Anchoring the other side

4. Birthdays are still remembered…

The birthday

5. And the campus will never be the same…

Never the same

My niece Rose graduated from high school today… And just yesterday she was a baby…

Rose's graduation

The daylilies have started blooming!

Daylily

Rainy days and blue jays always make me smile… Poor little guy was soaked.

Rainy day blue jay

The price of inattention… (from the office window just before the ambulance arrived)…

The price of inattention

HAD to get out and do something different tonight. Love the birds, but I want to learn other things. So I headed over to Sacred Heart Cathedral as the sun was setting and tried some different images.

First, a nine-shot HDR:

Sacred Heart Cathedral HDR

Then a single shot of the Cathedral with some darker post-processing:

Sacred Heart Cathedral

I like ’em both, and am not sure how I’d choose between ’em! So I made it even harder on myself by processing another different HDR image:

Sacred Heart Cathedral HDR

The blue jay sat and watched me this morning from the branches of a tree not far from the bird feeders. He won’t sit still any closer… at least not yet.

Blue jay