Quote of the day

Borrowing an idea from Anna. :-)

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.  ~Alan Valentine

I saw this quote while looking for quotes about discovery.  And it struck me as being so true. No matter how good the intentions of the discoverers, there are good and bad ways to use everything.

A Beautiful Day on Campus

Today I spent a couple of hours tooling around campus with my camera.   My main goal was to go take pictures of the french fries, or "Alachua" as it is professionally known, for a photography site called Digital Photography School (digital-photography-school.com/blog).  It is a website that has really helped me learn how to open my mind to viewing the world through the lens.  Each week there is a different assignment to do.  This week was "angles" hence the thought to take some shots of the french fries.  

Even though my initial idea was to use the french fries as my example of angles, I actually came away with a much better shot of the architecture of the Marston Science Library.  I looked up, and saw some fascinating elements created from the windows of some offices, the brick pillars/walls,  and the windows of the roof.  After I got home and loaded the images to my computer, I thought it was very happy with how it turned it out.  So here it is....

The last image I posted got chopped off on the right side.  I hope it doesn't happen to this one too.  If so, just click on the image and it will take you to flickr to see the full image, and you can see it in large format in full detail.  You can also see some additional photos from that day including, an alligator, the french fries, and century tower.

All in all it was a peaceful day on campus.