Subtle Coolness

I was at church Wednesday night, and I went out into the parking lot, and I saw this parked there:

Even though I have never seen The Love Bug, Herbie Rides Again, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Herbie Goes Bananas or Herbie Fully Loaded (though I narrowly escaped watching Herbie Fully Loaded once), I think it is cool to see something like this for reals.

Here is another photograph in my (now) ongoing series called “pipes”:

The photograph was taken on 23 April 2008, outside Welch Painter Hall on the University of Texas campus. I used my Nokia 6126.

Somewhere deep down inside I want to be a photographer. I’m not sure where the desire came from. Perhaps it was because my dad used to have an awesome old 35mm camera that didn’t automatically focus or advance that he would bring out for every birthday in our house? Maybe it was all the time I spent scanning images from my father’s collection of old slides? Could it be because I read some blogs that talk about photography fairly regularly?

Whatever it is, I probably suck at photography right now. Here is a photo I took:

These are some pipes outside one of the School of Architecture buildings at the University of Texas. I took this with a Nokia 6126. Wait, what? That’s right, I took this picture with my cell phone camera. I guess it looks alright, for a cell phone camera.

My oldest sister gave me a puzzle (she had already assembled) for Christmas ages ago. Then one of my brothers gave me a frame to fit for Christmas not quite ages ago. Today my friend kindly drove me to get a piece of plastic so I could put it all together. The puzzle is finally framed!