Perspectives

ABC Wednesday is a word meme with participants from around the world. This fabulous meme was created and hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt who hails from Great Britain. We are now in our sixth round-some of the participants have been with this from the very first round; others have joined in along the way. Each week we are taken across the globe to see the varied and exciting contributions people have taken the time to discover and capture. We start with the letter, "A" and each week we post something in regards to the next letter of the alphabet. This week's letter is, "P".

PINWHEELS

Rather large ones, at that! This was an installation I did on the UNM (Univ. of New Mexico) campus many, many moons ago. The pinwheels are about four feet tall and the stands that they are on are galvanized pipes and the 'wheels' are made of a plastic called 'cintra' that was spray painted and cut to size. I've bee known upon occasion to place these pinwheels in my backyard for fun. They're not good as a permanent display since wind and weather disintegrates them.

POLAROID PRAYING MANTIS

This fun little guy was a cell phone capture as he was hanging outside the door to our local library. And of course, I had to play around with the image even more so and added the Polaroid feature (courtesy free on line photo software called: Picnik. www.picnik.com).

PLYMOUTH

Not where the Pilgrims landed, but in the automobile!

PERSPECTIVE

My husband did a 'study in perspective' with his GoPro HD Motorsports HERO Camera. It's a pretty cool little video camera and he tried it out at what is known as The Rail Yard in Albuquerque. It is a very wide angled lens camera which also does remarkable HD video and time lapse photos. It is housed in an indestructible weather/water proof case and takes amazing images. To see what it can do, be sure to watch all of the video! We are very happy with the camera. You can stick it onto just about anything and his buddy stuck it on to his pair of skis when they were up in Durango a month ago. His video is called, "My Ski's View". We've seen all kinds of applications of this camera and there are a slew of videos done with it on You Tube.