We used to live in Santa Cruz. UCSC has the banana slug as its school mascot (“No known predators”). This sign is from yesterday’s wanderings about Lewis & Clark campus in the snow. It’s all melted today. Weird weather… weird signage…
Anyroad, a few business items… First off, one of my mates who is a proper, professional photographer, Mr. Joop Rubens has started a photoblog to go with his flashy pro site, and I urge you to check it out. He’s been into photography for donkey’s years and got into digital about 5 years ago and has enviable portrait skillz.
Next off, I’m considering consolidating my RSS feeds so that if you’ve signed up for photoblog emails, you’ll get my blog updates too. If that sounds like a bad idea, contact me in the next day or two and I may well reconsider. I try to put photos in all my blog posts too… If you’re signed up for both already, you can still unsubscribe from one or t’other.
Thirdly, I’ve still not printed the photos I promised you and for that, I suck. I’m on it, it’s always on my mind and maybe this is the week I’ll make good on my promise.
Fourthly, I got ebaying over the weekend and should have a 50mm 2.0 prime lens to play with in the very near future which is a whole new area to me and I’m looking forward to experimenting. I’ve another vintage viewfinder on its way too, a Kodak Duaflex II, hopefully full of dust, scratches and blemishes all ready to have a Pringles tin strapped to it.
I won’t write any more here cos it puts the whole balance of the design out when there’s tons of text. I’m offski 🙂
Best watch where you put the rock salt down.
I brought a bananaslug sweatshirt back from UC Santa Cruz for Christina in 2000
http://www.ucsc.edu/about/campus_mascot.asp
Wise words, mdcurry8. Duly noted : )
Somewhere in my photostream from back when I wasn’t as diligent with me tagging, there’re a few pix of a real live banana slugs on UCSC’s campus, Rabinal. And of course, that particular design shot to fame after Pulp Fiction… http://www.slugweb.com/famous.html
LOL!
Camino para babosos xD!
Eugh!
I saw banana slugs in Canada. And my friends sent me a postcard from Santa Cruz with one on…
Saludos Yuumei! Verdad que no hay en guanatos…
I think i saw a tiger slug the other day but I didn’t have my big book of slug identification on me, DH…
PS: Found it!
y si cruzan y toda la cosa??? aqui en holanda me he sorprindo pero así cabrón con las mega babosas que he visto en los jardines… el otro día hasta me espanté cuando vi uno de esos mounstruos (digo mounstruo por el tamanio, no por que estén feos)
lol a slug crossing?
8zil, todavía no las he visto cruzar. No creo que saben leer el rótulo, pero me imagino que sí respetan el limite de velocidad… 😉
Yep, birel, tis indeed 🙂
Eeewww!!