Conservativa

It’s Monday. Back to work for the Virginia Legislature. Keep an eye on what your legislators are doing - see the excellent site Richmond Sunlight. It gets a lot of its info from the Legislative Information System. These sites may seem a bit “inside baseball,” and for political junkies only, but what the legislature does winds up affecting our lives directly, so it is essential for this information to be available.

On the other hand, it’s good to keep things in perspective, get one’s nose out of the blogosphere, and look around. This is a crop of a photo of the Virginia capitol building. See the tiny lighter area about 1/3 down from the top of the photo? Here it is, sized up and much sharpened:

It’s a bird. Amazing - the whole photo here takes in almost all of the front of the capitol building, but still captures this tiny detail. Shooting at a fairly low ISO helps. ISO 200, f/7.1, 1/2000, 20mm.