I have a full blown cold. I haven’t felt this bad in a long time. With the smoke from the controlled burns in the Jemez and Santa Fe areas drifting into the valley over the past several weeks, I’ve been having a lot of sinus trouble. Now people are  burning their fire places — and as hard as I tried to keep the sniffles from turning into a cold — I have failed.

I didn’t get a whole lot done today other than make a big pot of chicken soup stock to put up in the freezer, work on photos and hang around on the Internet. I got bored after a while, and decided to try doing a “Test your photography IQ” exam. The results were a big fat FAIL on the “Define the following terms” section.  OK, whatever, but I beg to differ with their assessment — I think most of my definitions were perfectly reasonable:

1. F Stop: — The stop between E and G on the Red Line.

2. Depth of Field: — knee deep when it rains.

3. Matrix: — Green numbers that fall from the top of my computer screen.

4. Resolution: — A Beatles song.

5. Flash: — A partial wardrobe malfunction.

6. Exposure: — A complete wardrobe malfunction.

7. Exposure Compensation: — The settlement over a wardrobe malfunction.

8. Rule of Thirds: — 3.33333333333333333333333333.

9. Diaphragm: — A contraceptive device.

10. ISO: — The opposite of ISNOT.

11. Chromatic aberration: — A white guy.

12. APO: — A performance enhancing option.

13. Sunny-16 Rule: — Always check ID, she may only look 21.

14. SLR:  — Such a Lovely Rectangle.

15. Golden Rectangle: — An expensive SLR.

I might have to eat some of that chicken soup stock for dinner.