Tag: Apple iPhone 5
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Just a random turtle
I had just pulled out of my driveway the other morning when I saw what I thought was a small bag of trash lying in the street ahead. But then I wasn’t sure what it was. And then as I passed it I could see: it was a large turtle! I got out of the car to…
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Captured: Stained glass, Logansport City Hall
I was in Logansport recently for a quarterly board meeting of the Historic Michigan Road Association. We met at City Hall, where we honored Michigan Road historian Juanita Hunter. Juanita, who is in her 90s now, spent her early retirement years traveling the road with her husband, taking photographs and documenting the road’s stories. Her…
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The camera you have with you
More and more, photos I share with you here come from my iPhone 5. It’s always in my pocket. My iPhone’s lens can’t match the sharpness and detail of my better film cameras or even of my go-to digital camera, the highly competent Canon PowerShot S95. The iPhone offers no optical zoom; anything you shoot at…
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Restored Standard service station on Route 66
We were in the first hours of our Route 66 trip’s first day when we reached Odell, a small northern-Illinois town, and its wonderful Standard service station. You know how it is early on a road trip. The excitement is fresh, your eyes are wide open, and you want to stop and look at everything.…
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Old Route 66 pavement
The point of our Route 66 trip was to take in America at ground level – to experience the countryside’s changing terrain as we moved west, to enjoy the small towns that dot the route, and to take in any tourist traps that interested us. But me being me, I also wanted to see some old-road…
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Visiting my favorite abandoned bridge
It never fails that about the first of March I start itching to get out onto the old roads. The old roads are there all year, of course, but I prefer to drive them when it’s warm! One of my sons is learning to drive. I usually have him chauffeur me around while I run…
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I like my iPhone 5 okay I guess, but I miss my Palm Pre
I got an iPhone 5 on the day it came out. Now, I don’t normally jump on bandwagons. I’m quite anti-bandwagon, actually. So why, then, did I get the iPhone? Because I’d had it with my once-beloved Palm Pre. Shortly after I got my Pre, Hewlett Packard bought Palm – and then promptly shut down…