Insomniac Librarians Why sleep when there's field literature?

Sometimes you catch a break :)

My battery died just after this shot. Someone else on the tour had stepped right into my shot to take his own picture. I was able to crop him on out.

It was hard to fixerate all of the colours and such, so I actually prefer the sepia version of this photo. The chaos of the group appeals to me more each time I take a second look.

My heartfelt apologies to Rosie. I had intentionally kept her out of the shot when she was on the right side of the porch. I was surprised to see her in this!

As much as some folks complained about the piecemeal nature and complicated sight lines of the different rooms in the North Adams Public Library, I am enamoured of the unconventional layout. (Probably since I don't have to work there :) ) It really feels like home, because it functioned as such for a person of some means before it was a Library.

This was my favourite shot from yesterday. I admit it's a low bar.

*drool* I want one of these bad boys in me house. These are in the basement of the North Adams Public Library.

I really get to agonise over the line up of things when I make an effort out of doors. I can sit on the forest floor and wait for hours for the lighting conditions to be precisely what I want. This strike while the iron is hot approach is daunting and interesting at once.

Again, this is not nearly as flattering as it would have been a split second before, not to mention my extreme deficiency in experience with human subjects.

There were flowers everywhere in the Library yesterday. I can't hope to capture the atmosphere that leant to the already resonant space. I curse the loss of one in particular. I had shot the rear window through yet another bouquet. The alignment was perfect!

I hope I'll be forgiven for my ineptitude with the personal images. In general I take stills and sometimes macros of nice solid still objects. I take poor pictures of landscapes, flowers, architecture. I'm not used to subjects that move rapidly, so my candids are abysmal.

This is one of the skylights at the Wendell Free Library. There were no lights turned on, and there was plenty of light on an overcast day - so much so that I had to perpetually mess with the brightness, contrast, and exposure on me pictures. These reminded me terribly of the lustral basins at Knossos.

The beautiful new Wendell Free Library. You'll have to rotate this, and I'm not sure why.

My Children's Librarian is on vacation this week (how DARE she have a private life, I tell her, yet she went anyway), so I had to take over Summer Reading this week. Blandford is a very small town, maybe 1200 residents, so it's not like we're cavorting in lotsa money or huge programs. We have maybe twelve or fifteen regulars to Summer Reading, which is a HUGE crew for us (space space space).

There are times when I closely resemble Marvin the Paranoid Android, and this is one of them.

I am *so* depressed.