Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen

The Views From Dog Beach Late This Afternoon

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:20:48 -0800

Photos taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 PureView. Tues 05.21.13 - My Grandpa has been in the hospital for the last 5 days and the way my Mom and I have been dealing with it is to go to Dog Beach after visiting the hospital. The best thing we saw was a small pod of dolphins surfing the waves and the adults were teaching a young dolphin to surf in the wave. It was lovely. Unfortunately, due to sun glint on the waves from my angle (see Belle photo above), I was not able to get a photo with the dolphins in the waves. It was a lovely late afternoon, dolphin photos or no....Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Testing the Changes to Comments

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:21:05 -0800

Test... Test... Test.... Trying to give folks more options: Comments: Is the comments from the last ten years. Disqus Comments: Is the new comments using Disqus, Google or Facebook to login bits....Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Crescent Moon and Jupiter Conjunction

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:09:10 -0800

Sun 05.12.13 - The conjunction of the new-ish crescent Moon with Jupiter as seen from the Seal Beach Pier. Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia Lumia 920....Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Foaming at the Mouth

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:22:27 -0800

I would like to propose a novel idea: If you wash dishes by putting concentrated dish soap directly on the sponge and then wash the dish, please please please rinse the dish soap off well with clean water afterwards. Even if you are washing your dishes in very weak dish soap water, please still rinse. Please. My fave Vietnamese restaurant did not do this today or yesterday with one of the soup bowls. And now three hours after lunch of soup that was suspiciously foamy and smelled faintly of soap even through the sambal & basil, my stomach is churning and I am continuing to spit soap foam out of my mouth every couple of minutes. The only entertaining part...Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Javascript, I am just not that in to you

Mon, 06 May 2013 08:16:40 -0800

I like Javascript enough to work with it, write in it, and meet up for coffee/tea to hear how its life is going. But I don't want to move in with it and have its babies. I realize that in contemporary web development I am completely out of sync as everyone who is anyone claims that they want to move in with and have Javascript's babies, be they JS babies of the web variety, bouncing server side nodes, or cute little mobile frameworks. But maybe, many of the everyone who is anyone are feigning their deep, abiding love of Javascript, and maybe like me they would rather catch up with JS over a drink and occasionally write in it, all...Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Hit the Road on a Sunday Evening

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:48:51 -0800

Listen: This American Life's 494: Hit the Road View and Listen: Photos and more audio from Andrew Forsthoefel's walking trip across America on Transom.org. View: Travel around various places with the Moon, by Leonid Tishkov. Chew: Paul Miller takes a road trip of a very different type: He eschews the internet in all its forms for a year. Chew and debate: Vanessa Veselka asks why there are no female road narratives in literature and popular culture. Commenters disagree with her and give examples of their own road trips or good fictional road narratives....Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Great (White) Egret Taking Off

Thu, 02 May 2013 21:57:29 -0800

Photo taken at Bolsa Chica Wetlands by Ms. Jen with her Nikon D800. Thurs 05.02.13 - While all the other photographers out and about late this afternoon at Bolsa Chica Wetlands had DSLRs with Big Big Big prime lenses mounted (400mm+), I cheekily went to photowalk around the wetlands with my Nikon D800 with the Nikon 50mm 1.4G lens. The high resolution of the D800 plus the sharpness of the 50mm allows me to crop the photo and still get a good clear picture of the egret and the sunlight through it's wings. I am sure if I stopped traveling and started buying 400mm+ prime lenses, that I would have a clear photo of the mites on the egret's...Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Unfolding Fern

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:29:25 -0800

Photos taken by Ms. Jen with her Nikon D800 and an 85mm f1.8D lens. Wed 05.01.13 - Happy May Day!...Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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A Close-Up of Mercury

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:02:11 -0800

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 PureView. Sat 04.27.13 - There were a lot of very well taken care of vintage and antique cars at the annual Seal Beach Car Show, but this 1961 Mercury Monterey was very lovely. The front of the hood dials with the Mercury logo were casting sunlight intrigued me. How could two fairly small metal and plastic dials stay in good shape for 52 years?...Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Evening Light at the Pier

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:46:06 -0800

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 PureView. Another photo from Wed the 24th during the golden hour as the light was so nice that evening with the dark clouds over the land and the last of the sunlight sliding under the clouds to light up the evening....Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Standing on the Pier, Watching the Surf go by

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:13:48 -0800

Video taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 Pureview on Wed. April 24, 2013, at 7:02pm. There was a south-southwest swell coming in at an angle to the Seal Beach Pier and every time a wave broke on the sea wall beneath us the section of pier my Mom and I were on shook like an rolling earthquake. It was quite fun....Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Happy 10th Blog Birthday!

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:10:05 -0800

While I first reserved the blackphoebe.com domain name in 2001, I used it for mostly personal one-offs for two years until I decided to start my own blog for ideas and my photography. I installed blogging software and set up the then design by the end of my 25+10th birthday in the late evening on the 24th of April, I didn't actually publish the first post until the morning of April 25, 2003 when I finalized a few details. An amusing entry from the summer of 2003: Thursday - Mom Surfing at Bolsa Chica In the upcoming year on this blog, I intend to return to daily blogging, be it photos or text, and to write more about life and...Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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To Bishop and Back Again for Cousin Shelly's Shower

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:16:16 -0800

Bishop, California, family, wedding shower, birthday

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For Boston

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:04:53 -0800

Mon 04.15.13 - Today was Patriot's Day and the day to go stand out in the spring chill and cheer the runners on, but today it went wrong. To the people and visitors of Boston - to healing and hope....Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Responsive Web Design Summit 2013 - One Week Away - Come Join Us!

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:59:06 -0800

The lovely folk at Environments for Humans are hosting the 2nd Annual Responsive Web Design (online) Summit April 16-18, 2013. The great thing about the E4H online summits is that one can attend and participate in the summit from anywhere were you have a data connection - home, office, coffee shop, car, mountain, desert, the ISS, wherever. Yes, there is a the traditional presenter presents with slides, but the best part - speaking from experience as a presenter and as an attendee - there is a real time chat that the attendees can use to ask questions, comment on the presentation, and otherwise interact with the group, which then gives the presenter an opportunity to interact back. I love this...Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Easter Tulips

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:02:49 -0800

Photos taken today by Ms. Jen with her Nikon D800 & a 85mm f1.8 lens....Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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A Spring Walk through Seal Beach

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:45:21 -0800

Photos taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 PureView while walking the dogs today....Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Happy First Day of Spring!

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:14:41 -0800

Photo by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 PureView. Wed 03.20.13 - Happy Vernal Equinox or Happy First Day of Spring! While many of you may still be stuck in snow and those of us here in SoCal have been in spring conditions since January where our winter rains have delivered half of what we usually get, still we can all be happy for the equal light and equal night day that is today!...Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Comet Panstarrs and the New Moon

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:40:42 -0800

Photo taken on Tues 03.12.13 in Huntington Beach by Ms. Jen with her Nikon D800 and a 85mm f1.8 lens. Tues 03.12.13 - For the last few days, marine inversion mists permitting, I have gone to a west facing beach or cliff to look for Comet PANSTARRS in the 30-45 minutes after the sunset. This evening was the first evening that I was able to get a photo of the Comet, above just to the left of the moon. I was so excited to see the comet clearly on the view screen of my Nikon, as the comet was not visible to the naked eye but only visible through binoculars. Saturday evening, my Dad and I went to the...Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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Family Outing to the Norton Simon

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:50:23 -0800

Photo of Allison and Campbell in front of the Norton Simon Museum by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 PureView....Continue reading... | Comments (0)

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