Brown Hall, Princeton University

Sean ,a member of the New Jersey SmugMug User Group, organized a photo walk of Princeton University.   We met up on the green at Palmer Square and waited 15 minutes before proceeding.   It was a cold day, and the brisk hour-and-a-half walk around campus did not help take the edge off.   I took more photos with my iPhone than I did with my Nikon, but this one was the most pleasing of the DSLR set.

By 1888, it had been almost a decade since the construction of Edwards Hall, the "poor man's dormitory," and by the fall of that year, half the first-year class had lodgings in town. Accordingly, the College decided to construct a new dormitory. In early 1889, the Trustees awarded the contract to the New York architect A. Page Brown. Brown was instructed to design a five-story dormitory with three entries located diagonally to the southeast of Edwards. The working title of the new building was Brown Hall, a name chosen not to honour the architect but to honour the donor, Mrs David B. Brown. via Princeton.edu

I used Photomatix Pro to create an HDR from a single RAW image and did some minor cropping in Adobe Lightroom.

March 26, 2011 - Awkward

My wife and my son went to a play at the high school this afternoon.  Neither my daughter nor I wanted to sit for three hours.  It's not that we're not play people, we just weren't up for a play.  While they — my wife and son — were out we decided to go see a movie.  We settled on Rango — she does not want to see Mars Needs Moms for some reason.  We spent $23 on two small sodas — since when is 20 oz. of soda a small? — a small popcorn, and a pack of Sour Patch Kids. Yikes!

The movie was great slapstick humour with some mental humour as well.  Some of the jokes might have gone over the heads of some of the parents.  One joke in particular ( I don't remember which ) produced a LOL moment from myself and just one other person off to my far right. We laughed so loudly that I noticed and stopped. Awkward.