Well, I guess I should do a blog update. I’ve been pretty busy this year so far, but I’ve decided not to do a photo-a-day project for 2010. Instead, I’ve been making an effort to cook on at least one day a week (typically on Sundays). Work gives employees a choice of anniversary gift each year, and this year I chose a great set of stainless steel pots.
Anyway, something I came across this evening caught my eye – it’s a contest hosted by CBS for people to submit their best impersonation of CSI Miami’s Horatio Cane (David Caruso). I have a few ideas I wanted to write down, so I thought – what better place to put them than on my blog, which is starving for attention? 
Cold Open One:
Scene: A deep freezer has been opened. Wisps of cold air are emanating from its cold interior. A body (or body parts, in a nod to Dexter Season 1) can be seen, lit by a cold blue light.
Random Crimelab Lackey: “H, we won’t be able to get an accurate time of death from the body. It’s been frozen for too long. We’ll have to look through our cold cases to see if anything fits.”
Horatio: “Do that, Officer Lackey. And let me know what you find, because this is what I call …”
*Horatio puts on his sunglasses, despite being inside*
Horatio: “A cold open.”
YEEEEOWW!
Okay, that one might not be all that great. But the next one isn’t any better, I promise!
Cold Open Two:
Scene: A gently flowing river. Fall. Leaves on the shoreline. Shallow focus on a cat licking something out of a plastic bag, a police cruiser’s lights flashing in the blurred depths of the frame. A dark silhouette moves toward the camera.
* Horatio approaches the cat, crouches, shoos it out of the way, revealing a limb protruding from the bag *
Horatio: The cat’s in the bag.
*takes off sunglasses, stands up, notices another bag floating in the stream*
Horatio: And the bag’s in the river.
MEEEEEOWWWW!
Okay, that’s all I got. Heh. Here are a few that are a bit more creative than mine.
My successful Picture-A-Day project for 2009 contains 365 photographs taken with my Pentax Optio W60 camera. (Well, I think there are a few exceptions – there’s one Halo screenshot in there, and there might be one iPhone photo).
The goal of this project was to take at least one photo for every day of 2009. In 2008, I only managed to get 182 photo-a-day shots; 2009’s effort has smashed that number with a 100% success factor.
The quality of the photos runs the gamut from blurry or grainy or terribly composed to uniquely-lighted, almost properly composed, or downright artistically pleasant to look at.
There are rainbows, fireworks, pink elephants, meals, olympic torches, grassy fields, flowers, leaves, books, boats, buildings, parking meters, newspapers, retail items, business signs, desserts, cats, dogs, squirrels, birds, planes, trains, and automobiles.
I documented myself fishing, kayaking for the first time, getting married (I suppose it was only hinted at in these photos), having a stag party wherein an *actual stag* showed up (although I ended up using a colourful fishing reel photo instead of a blurry zoomed photo for that day), getting my new computer, honeymooning at Disneyland, and (in a way) celebrating the successful completion of the project.
I am considering taking the photos and making them into a book. While that might end up being a bit too pricey, it would make a nice cap on an already impressive project follow-through.
This concludes our broadcast day. *Click*
A few leftover photos in this post.
We went and saw the Olympic Torch at Mile Zero here in Victoria. It wasn’t exactly what we expected, and the weather was pretty wet, but it was fun. Apparently the torch had been re-routed at the checkpoint prior to mile zero, due to protests, and we happened to luck out in our positioning such that it didn’t skip over our lookout spot. Quelle chance.
A kitty in a strange bind, and a very unusual bike accessory that was pointed out by a coworker.
Photographic proof that I rode the California Screamin’ rollercoaster at Disneyland.
Additionally, on Nov 30th, I participated in the Movember fundraiser for prostate cancer research, and I raised a small sum of money thanks to that hideous and horrifying moustache. I’d like to extend a special thanks to my primary donor, “b!” from SlackerTalk. Thanks, b!
