This is an antique shop in a little west of the Bloomington town center. I have never really seen this store open - it has been closed everytime I passed by. I have wondered about this building every time I have passed by. Its a bit of a spooky building and I was wondering if I might be able to hold our weekly Programming Languages group meetings in there, the building would lend a nice ambience to our usual topics - dependand types, syntactic abstraction, denotational semantics and such.

This is also one of my first 30 sec exposure shots. It was taken with my 350D at 10mm (Canon 10-22mm) , f/8.0, ISO 400 and exposure time 30secs. I didnt have a tripod on me that I would like to use (I really need to get another tripod, one that can support the weight of my camera and which is a ball-head instead of the maddening mutli-directional adjustment thing), so I had to set the camera on the ground with the lens facing slightly upwards. Also it was so dark when I was taking the shot that the autofocus completely failed and I could not tell if the structure was in focus or not using the manual focus. The view-finder on a Rebel XT leaves a lot to be desired.

For a long time now, I have been taking pictures without knowing the details behind many things. Of late I have been looking at some photography books to better understand the technicalities and boy, has it been fun!

Same settings as the previous shot, but with -1/3 stop exposure bias.