Event 3: Photography meetup

Late this afternoon I joined a couple of dozen people – including my friends Sam and Ted – for a photo meetup just west of downtown. The idea was to get some dusk-to-dark pictures of the downtown skyline, on a night when a lot of the office buildings might have their lights on in honor of the Stock Show.

It was chilly. The buildings weren’t particularly lit up. I had a good time in general. But I was woefully under-prepared to get the best from my camera in that situation. And I learned that my cheapo tripod is better than nothing. Just. Yes, I was out of my comfort zone, and not just because it was cold. Which is a good thing.

I added three pictures from yesterday to my Cityscapes album on Zenfolio.

Denver January evening I’m glad I went, and learned from the experience. And that crummy digital pictures can be deleted!

Event 1: Stock Show Parade

WesternairesFinally. I went to the annual National Western Stock Show kickoff parade through downtown Denver. The weather was beautiful and unseasonably warm. I had no other obligations. It was my kind of parade: lots of animals, and not enormously long.

And I had my brand new camera, about which I’m squeaking with joy. I took an unreasonable number of photos at the parade, and have posted a fraction of them in an album on zenfolio.

After I got home yesterday I learned that the night before when I carefully went through all the camera setup steps – I’d entered the wrong date. So all the pictures from yesterday show in my zenfolio album as having been taken today. Oops. On the other hand they show as having been uploaded the day before they were taken. Which is kind of gratifying for a world class procrastinator.

After the parade I walked down the 16th Street Mall, and on an impulse went into the Visit Denver info center at 16th and California. I was looking for a printed map of Denver’s city (and mountain) parks, but not expecting much. Happy surprise, they’d just received a shipment of new updated maps from Parks & Rec. Now I just need to pick out 35 of those parks for my assignment.