What I Saw When I Walked Down My Street: A Photo Essay

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1. suzanne says:
   August 12, 2009 at 2:30 pm

   Photoshop is fun.
2. georgmi says:
   August 12, 2009 at 2:32 pm

   …and to think that you saw it on Mulberry Street.
3. Stephanie B says:
   August 12, 2009 at 2:35 pm

   You should take photos of the meteor showers tonight. Since you don’t have to worry about city lights obstructing your views!
4. John Scalzi says:
   August 12, 2009 at 2:36 pm

   georgmi:

   Well, Horatio Harris Creek Road, in any event.
5. Kate Baker says:
   August 12, 2009 at 2:40 pm

   #3 – What my day looked like on Saturday before the reading you, PW and JCG gave.

   #2 – What it looked like…after.

   On a serious note: Awesome shots and manipulations.
6. Chris says:
   August 12, 2009 at 2:48 pm

   Wow, your street looks like Altered States.
7. Jeff says:
   August 12, 2009 at 2:53 pm

   Dude. I’ve been learning photography and developing a keen interest for a while now. These are good – not that you don’t already know that.

   2, 3, 4 and 5 especially stand out, I guess I like clouds.

   I’m interested in how much composition went into these when you took them – did you intend to line the bushes up with the clouds in 2 when you took it, or was it a happy accident?

   BTW, what kind of camera do you use? DSLR or P&S? Being the techno-junkie you seem to be, I’m guessing DSLR.
8. Lizzie Longenecker says:
   August 12, 2009 at 2:54 pm

   Oh, quit bragging!
9. Rebecca Knight says:
   August 12, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   I hate you, Scalzi :P.

   But seriously, thanks for sharing. Gorgeous!

   I still hate you, though.
10. "Other" Jeff says:
    August 12, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    The clouds are cool, but I especially like the morning glory vines. I have them crawling all over one of my trellises, mixed in with moonflower vines.
11. Mike F. says:
    August 12, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    I think I see the face of the Devil in the second shot. I’m sure The Weekly World News would pay a good amount for that shot.

    Good shots, though.
12. Mike says:
    August 12, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    I think I just found out how you can win a the hugo for being a “visual artist”…..

    now if you could just find an alien, or a fairy or a wookie or what have you to take a pic of….how interesting would that be?!?!
13. andrew says:
    August 12, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Pic number two looks like the beginning of whatever happened on Cormac McCarthy’s road, but the others are much more idyllic and relaxing.
14. Christopher says:
    August 12, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    I like the world Scalzi lives in. And I’m glad his publisher offers his books in both worlds.
15. Stephen Buchheit says:
    August 12, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    Add some horse crap to those roads and yeah, I drive through there on the way home.
16. Marko says:
    August 12, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    They have a farmstand out in rural Ohio somewhere, only stocked with Scalzi books instead of ears of corn?
17. JEANNE says:
    August 12, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    Marko, that would make central Ohio way more interesting than it actually is.
18. Christopher says:
    August 12, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    I can’t believe Scalzi gets DSL there. My town is a busy city by comparison but no DSL for us.
19. Sarcastro says:
    August 12, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    Curves. Can I has some?

    Sometimes I despair down here in the armpit of the south, but then I point the roadster into the mountains and it’s all good again.
20. MasterThief says:
    August 12, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    Gentlemen… BEHOLD!!!!!!

    I give you… corn!
21. MikeB says:
    August 12, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    Ah, the rustic life. So wonderful until someone drives a tractor into a pole and takes out your power, phone and cable for a week. All you need to complete the photo-set would be a Stop sign with bullet holes in it and a burning mail box.
22. Cassie says:
    August 12, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    Doesn’t it freak you out when the sky changes color that fast in one afternoon?
23. Laura says:
    August 12, 2009 at 5:41 pm

    Hmm. Pics aren’t loading for me. Refreshed a couple of times…
24. John Scalzi says:
    August 12, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    They’re housed on Twitter so if you have a corporate block on that site, that would explain it.
25. Deborah says:
    August 12, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    John’s got filters and he’s not afraid to use ‘em!

    Either that or Coyote is on drugs again. Around the Miami Valley, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
26. mythago says:
    August 12, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    Darn it, I miss eating good corn. You wouldn’t believe the crap that passes for corn in California.
27. Patrick M. says:
    August 12, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    And by Twitter, you mean Flickr?
28. John Scalzi says:
    August 12, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    Hush, Patrick.

    Also, yes.
29. eris esoteric says:
    August 12, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    Insert gratuitous public service announcement, in German even.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYmipFDxMl8
30. Jenna Consolo says:
    August 12, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    Well, I want to live on your street for sure!

    Came by from Luisa’s blog, and so glad I did! Lovely!
31. vian says:
    August 12, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    Is it usual to grow morning glory in with your corn, or is one of your neighbours a generous eccentric, who gives out lovely free views?
32. Peter says:
    August 12, 2009 at 9:23 pm

    These great photos are the antithesis to my own photo essay taken on the way to work in Los Angeles entitled “Bulky Item Pick-Up”.
33. Annalee Flower Horne says:
    August 12, 2009 at 10:41 pm

    Having lived both in DC and in Dayton’s Greater Rural Zone, I will cede that you win this round. But at least my nearest high-production-value natural history museum isn’t a bad Dinotopia cosplay.

    Just sayin’.
34. Nickp says:
    August 13, 2009 at 8:38 am

    Nice monarch butterfly. I haven’t seen one of those in years. We get more swallowtails than you can shake a stick at, but no monarchs. I even planted two species of milkweeds to attract them, but no dice.
35. Nickp says:
    August 13, 2009 at 8:40 am

    vian:

    I suspect that morning glory = weed.
36. Missy K. says:
    August 13, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Gods, it looks like that where I used to live, which is about 200 miles northeast of you, in Tuscarawas County. Now I live in the stringently manicured suburbia that is South Florida, and pictures like these make me homesick for come-as-you-are lawns and cornfields.

    Be there on vacation in two weeks, though!
37. Elizabeth Coleman says:
    August 14, 2009 at 12:48 am

    You and your clouds. You’re like the Akira Kurosawa of Ohio.
38. vian says:
    August 14, 2009 at 1:45 am

    Hella pretty weeds, then, Nickp. Ohioans are really, really lucky. Here, they’d like as not be pulled up so they didn’t compete for what was left of the water.

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