Winter Slowdown
With the extreme cold we've been having it's been very difficult to get out and walk (and photograph). About 2 weeks ago a co-worker gave me a nice gift: a pair of gloves that fold-over to become mittens.
Something like this: http://www.campmor.com/cgi-bin/redir?prod=39158271
They were great. I could walk and photograph without having to take off my gloves and freeze my hands.
One week after receiving them I lost one. It fell out of the open pocket of my work bag. The reason the pocket was (and still is) open is that I broke the zipper on it and now it won't close. I lost it (the glove) somewhere either on the train or in the station after getting off the train. Sadly no one has turned it in to the lost and found.
I feel like a real idiot for rendering this gift useless (of course I lost the right-hand glove which is my shooting hand). It wasn't solicited and it was a very nice gesture.
So anyway, that put a crimp into my photography walks during lunch. That and the sub-20 deg temps we've had. Today was decent enough but my lunch hour was spent consuming too many hot wings while welcoming a new employee to the department.
Next week the highs are supposed to be around 7 deg. F which should make for /lovely/ hour-long walk. Really, I might stay out for an hour and a half then...
I'm going to have to start dumpster-diving into my archives for cetan.org images. It's too bad I don't have a decent film scanner at work I could work on scanning in lots of my old slides while waiting for the weather to improve.