I didn’t expect to see any pollination going on today… after all, this neighborhood is very new, and I’ve not seen anything in the way of bees around. Imagine my surprise when I saw this little guy happily munching on this onion flower. Did you have any idea that wasps are competent pollinators? Who knew? …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Not quite.
I intended to capture something of ayat 57 of Surat Ghafir, and in some ways I did, but I have some misgivings about this picture: The very idea of this picture, maybe not this picture, but the idea behind it, the way I decided to try and capture it, is contrived, overdone, unoriginal. Do we …
Tea Time (3)
It would be time for tea, but I’m fasting. Alhamdulillah!
Suhoor Time!
Heading downstairs for the first Suhoor of this blessed month. Ramadan Mubarak!
the doors
the doors episode vii: Strange Days I shot a tiny bit of video during the project… I shared one of these already, but maybe you’d like to see the others. I’d like to find a way to hold the phone steady and keep the button mashed down, while using both my hands to do something …
the doors
the doors episode vi: The End. With just less than a week until Ramadan, Allah enabled me to finish with the doors. As in episode v, I started by lightly sanding, then wiping down the doors, before adding a third and final coat of varnish. From a distance, they look good. Alhamdulillah. But don’t look …
Tea Time (2)
Tea Time (2). Testing the new “Intensity Control(tm)” slider in Cinamatic. This is the Bennet filter at 8 (of 9). Filters appear to start out at level 7, so you can push them up a bit if you want (and as I’ve done here). The intensity slider is part of a new update (v. 1.1) …
