bruni wrote:
Glen - "polymorphically pure of gender? what does that mean? is polymorphically a word? "Lens gendering" was pretty crazy but I fear we may have drifted into the twilight zone.
Hi Ben; here's an explanation of my cryptic little play on words (Note: I worry when my attempts at humour require explanation; it seems to suggest that I'm living in my own little twilight zone ... again. ).
1. Yes, "polymorphically" is a legitimate adverb.
2. In biology "polymorphism" means "the occurrence of more than one form in the same population of a species" [from Wikipedia].
3. Thus "polymorphically pure" is a self-contradictory phrase and, along with the wet noodle comment, was meant as an application of irony to say that this is not a place where José will be rebuked for manually focusing an AF-capable lens.
4. So you see, I clearly am living in my own little twilight zone. Oh well, at least it's familiar to me.
On more photographic note: Parksville beach, just north of Nanaimo, hosts an annual sand sculpting competition that attracts competitors from all over the world. The sculptures are created in mid-July and remain on display until late August, and my wife and I visited during the first weekend, when the sculptures were being created. This year is Canada's 150th birthday, and all of the sculptures reflected that theme in varying ways.
Captured by the 55 f/1.2 SC, the first photo below clearly expresses the birthday party theme.
When Leighton told us how much he missed having internet access for a while, I thought of a line from Big Yellow Taxi by a famous Canadian, Joni Mitchell: "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone." As it happened, there was a sand sculpture celebrating that song's environmental theme, and especially the lyrical line, "They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum." The second photo below -- also courtesy of the 55 f/1.2 SC -- shows a sculptor building that very tree museum.
In the third photo -- brought to you by the 105 f/2.5 P -- a sculpture captures the likeness of Neil Young, another Canadian celebrity, contemporary of Joni Mitchell, and environmental activist who has loudly protested the impact of the Alberta tar sands on First Nations land.
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