Saint Nicholas Day recognizes the third-century saint who became an inspiration for the modern-day Santa Claus. St. Nicholas Day is celebrated worldwide on the anniversary of his death, December 6th.

While memory card’s data storage capabilities can theoretically last five years or even longer, there is empirical evidence that cars may only be reliable from a few weeks to around two years of usage. I’ll bet that most of us don’t keep track of our memory card’s age and expect them to last forever. They don’t.

After I made this image, I showed it to my friend Steve who had borrowed my camera to make a few shots of it for his club’s newsletter. While looking at it, he said, “I just don’t see like that.” So I thought it might be fun to give you some idea of how I came to make this particular image.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. — Charles Baudelaire