"I am the eye in the sky Looking at you I can read your mind I am the maker of rules Dealing with fools I can cheat you blind And I don't need to see anymore To know that I can read your mind" --from the song Eye in the Sky by The Alan Parsons Project While it may look like some science fiction alien mechanical robot eye or perhaps the Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, it is, in fact, an articulating LED desk lamp. Well, at least that is what I think it is. Perhaps it really is some form of artificial intelligence - an eye in the sky - that sees all and hears all. I wonder if it is a friend or foe?
This is what a tired son with a cold and a tired Dad (both with very little sleep) do when left to their own devices. Two wild and crazy guys - with apologies to Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd. Shot with my Droid cell phone. Day 133 of 365 Copyright 2016 Scott Norris Photography www.scottnorrisphotography.com
This photo was taken through the windshield of my Dodge, somewhere in Big Bend National Park in Texas while driving at about 85 mph. It was in late September of 1997 or 1998 and I propped my Nikon FM2 up on the dash, centered the car on the yellow line and started shooting. This whole day, I think I saw maybe one or two other cars (not counting the border patrol checkpoints). Then the film was developed and promptly forgotten. Forgotten until today. To create this image, I scanned the original print into Photoshop and did a lot of cleanup and noise reduction. Then a bit of color correction to give the warm vintage look and finally I ran it through Topaz Impression. So the base photograph was not shot recently, but this image was created today. Day 132 of 365 Copyright 2016 Scott Norris Photography www.scottnorrisphotography.com
