CCXVII: A Lack of Color

© Trypto

Lani Kai: I took a picture of that tree too
Lani Kai: but I liked mine better in color
Trypto: it's OK...
Lani Kai: that's pretty much how I feel about it too
Trypto: as in, that's ok, but mine is a million times better
Lani Kai: I know

CCXVI: A Sign of Things to Come

© Lani Kai

Lani Kai: as you might recall, this is the picture that "had to be black and white"
Trypto: and indeed it is
Trypto: it must have heard you
Lani Kai: in color it's quite bland
Trypto: we're going to have several tree posts over the next few days
Trypto: I like my tree pictures

CCXV: The Courthouse

© Trypto

Lani Kai: I think it looks like a sperm whale
Trypto: yes, I thought that too
Trypto: dunno why it's called the "Courthouse"
Trypto: I had two photos of this--one with a humongous shadow in the foreground, and one with a humongous sky
Trypto: so I took the one with the big shadow, and digitally expanded the sky
Lani Kai: hence the file name?
Trypto: bingo

CCXIV: Online

© Lani Kai

Trypto: you're online!
Lani Kai: yesterday was the first time in a while that I wasn't online
Lani Kai: and that's because I had inventory until 11:30pm
Lani Kai: and then I came home and had food and fell asleep
Trypto: oh
Trypto: I'm online!
Lani Kai: that's better

CCXIII: Terrorist

© Lani Kai

Trypto: I wonder if you look weird, when you're leaning in with your giant camera, taking pictures of flowers
Lani Kai: well, if I'm leaning in really close I usually don't have a big lens attached
Trypto: even so, has anyone ever asked what you were doing?
Lani Kai: no
Lani Kai: although I've heard stories of people being labeled as terrorists, stalkers, perverts, paparazzi, and pedophiles
Trypto: terrorist is how a chinese person says tourist
Lani Kai: I think I look more like a tourist than a terrorist
Lani Kai: the only people that seem to think I'm a terrorist are the rent-a-cops at the mall

CCXII: The Calling

©Lani Kai

Trypto: awesome, a rock with a hole in it
Lani Kai: I actually went down there and walked through it once
Trypto: was it a portal to Narnia?
Lani Kai: no, just a parallel universe in which everyone spoke Olde English
Trypto: that's funny
Trypto: I was just drinking a bottle of "Olde English" beer
Trypto: that's the brand name
Lani Kai: perhaps the other side is calling you

CCXI: Business Plan

© Lani Kai

Lani Kai: so ever since i got a fisheye lens
Lani Kai: I've been using it quite often
Wisp: I never knew the business school could be so wild
Wisp: and I've been here for three years
Lani Kai: maybe you could make a new series
Lani Kai: "business school GONE WILD!"
Wisp: ha ha yes
Wisp: and become a millionaire
Wisp: unless the business school's students beat me up

CCX: A Sticky Situation

© Trypto

Lani Kai: and the beach series continues...
Trypto: look who's talking
Lani Kai: heh, I try to intersperse them
Trypto: well, you never see any water in mine
Lani Kai: I suppose

CCIX: Bzzz

© Lani Kai

Trypto: I was stung by a bee once, many moons ago
Lani Kai: so was I
Trypto: but my mom let all the flowers die that had been planted by the previous owners of our house, and so there were no more bees
Lani Kai: jeez, how many bees were the flowers attracting?
Trypto: letting the flowers die had nothing to do with the bees

CCVIII: Standing Straight

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Lani Kai: can't they build these so they stand straight?
Trypto: I'm sure they were straight at one point
Trypto: but I like how they aren't anymore
Trypto: they look like drunken sailors

CCVII: Osteichthyes

© Lani Kai

Trypto: that looks fishy
Lani Kai: it is indeed fishy
Trypto: fishy like a fishy fish
Trypto: fishy mcfishy
Trypto: fishy fishington

CCVI: Doubt

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Lani Kai: did you spend a whole day at the beach or something?
Trypto: a few beaches, actually
Trypto: when I was driving down on the 101, I stopped by some random turn-offs
Trypto: and I set my camera to black and white, because I wondered if it would make a difference
Lani Kai: you mean in terms of mindset?
Trypto: no, in image quality
Lani Kai: I doubt it

CCV: Bless You

© Lani Kai

Trypto: how big is that wave?
Lani Kai: umm
Lani Kai: 15-20 feet?
Trypto: gosh
Trypto: that's pretty big
Lani Kai: yeah
Lani Kai: I'd hate to be anywhere near that...
Trypto: it's like a sneeze of God

CCV: Stick in the Mud

© Trypto

Lani Kai: what happened to that?
Trypto: it's just a piece of wood on the beach
Lani Kai: how big is it?
Lani Kai: I can't really get a sense of scale...
Trypto: the cross-sectional area was about the size of my hand
Lani Kai: I see
Trypto: [all your questions] make it seem a little sinister now
Trypto: you've ruined it for me
Lani Kai: you haven't posted on your other blog in over a week
Trypto: what are you? a blog Nazi?

CCIV: To the Rescue

© Lani Kai

Lani Kai: I've always wanted to take that picture ever since I first saw that building
Lani Kai: but I never had a lens wide enough
Lani Kai: until now
Trypto: heh
Trypto: you need to hire a skywriter to make a big S right in the middle

CCIII: Go Green

© Lani Kai

Trypto: the out of focus lights gives it an interesting twist
Trypto: the bird of paradise becomes some kind of futuristic anti-aircraft gun
Lani Kai: I still remember the scientific name from the plant test in AP bio
Lani Kai: which, I don't think you had to take
Lani Kai: because the school tore down most of the plants on campus the next year
Trypto: they should burn down the rain forest too
Trypto: so I don't have to be tested on those plants either

CCII: Captivating

© Lani Kai

Trypto: hmmm
Trypto: it's a camera...
Trypto: and a keyboard
Lani Kai: fascinating, ain't it?
Trypto: it feels familiar somehow...

CCI: Explicit Content

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Trypto: in the shadow patterns, I see egg beaters
Trypto: and hot air balloons
Lani Kai: I see a very hungry caterpillar
Trypto: uhm...I don't
Lani Kai: not familiar with Eric Carle?
Lani Kai: I also see explicit content...
Trypto: are you saying Eric Carle puts explicit content into his childrens' books?
Trypto: I wonder what kind of ads are going to show up in the sidebar now that we've said "explicit content" [four] times

CC: Duck Soup

© Lani Kai

Trypto: I think this is the first time that I've thought a duck was cute
Lani Kai: what are they usually to you?
Trypto: just objects, like the way I'm looking at my coffee mug right now
Trypto: they might be well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, but not cute
Trypto: it has an infectious smile
Trypto: you should introduce me
Trypto: it would be a completely platonic relationship
Trypto: I know what you're thinking, sicko

CXCIX: Success

© Lani Kai

Trypto: is that guy succeeding, or failing miserably?
Trypto: I can't tell
Lani Kai: actually he's succeeding
Trypto: well, I guess I'd hate to see what not succeeding looks like
Lani Kai: it looks like this