Events

In honor of last night's historic law in the Empire State: 25 July 1984, Kodachrome 64, exposure unrecorded, 50mm, here (I think).

Last night the New York Senate passed a same-sex marriage law making the state the sixth to legalize it and effectively doubling the population of SSM-legal jurisdictions. Connecticut, D.C., Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont now allow same-sex marriage; civil unions or domestic partnerships are recognized in California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin (to greater or lesser extent). One part of the country lurches into the 21st...

St. Michael's Monestery, Kiev, Ukraine: 9 May 2009, Canon 20D, ISO-200, 1/1000 at f/8, 200mm, here.

Fallows justly slams Rep. Eric Cantor (R-OH): A petulant demonstration to the rest of the world that we can't meet the baseline obligation we expect of any two-bit duchy -- that it will face its financial problems and honor its sovereign debt -- would be a big, damaging step in the wrong direction. Good for John Boehner in recognizing that more than his own ambitions are at stake here. If the default actually comes, and markets panic, and interest rates for everything shoot up, keep the courageous Rep....

Avoiding the traffic jam somewhere in southern Wisconsin: 13 October 2003, Kodak DC4800 at ISO=100, 1/700 at f/8, 13mm.

You can see the past photos of the day in my SmugMug gallery.

The U.S. Capitol at sunset: 12 January 2002, Kodak DC4800, ISO-100, -0.5 EV, 1/700 at f/4.5, 18mm, here.

Last night Chicago got hit by severe storms that included hurricane-force winds: Violent storms raked large sections of the Chicago area Tuesday evening, knocking power out to nearly a quarter million Chicago area residents and transforming some thoroughfares into darkened obstacle courses, hard to navigate with streetlights out and debris, ranging from large trees to power poles and garbage cans, impeding if not entirely blocking travel. Police in some of the hardest hit areas were forced to light...

On the James River, just downstream of Richmond, Va.: 1 February 2003, Kodak DC4800 at ISO-140, -1 EV, 1/90 at f/3.4, 11mm, near here. This came from from my old Kodak DC4800, which I mentioned yesterday. Like yesterday's, it looks great on the blog at 500x750, but it doesn't have much more resolution than that, and Adobe Lightroom helped it along a little.

Summer begins today at 12:16 CDT, which is good because I'm tired of this 32°C spring weather. My objection to the past three months of Chicago weather probably sounds familiar: we've either had too little or too much heat, and during warm afternoons, when someone might want to sit outside and have a beer, we've had instead crashing rain. Today's forecast sounds just like that, too. On the other hand, it beats this...