on a clear day by summerfield

on a clear day

you can see...triangles! or make that almost clear day. like it was today in the good old T.O. there were a few clouds but generally during lunchtime it was just blue skies all around. with some wind that blew the skirt of my white dress but it was a good thing i wore slip, otherwise too many people would've been rendered blind.

anyway, coming out of the market, i spotted the little scalene triangles on the roof of this low-rise condominium building. those little triangles weren't actually triangles, but from my vantage point they gave the impression that they were scalene trianges. i was also able to shoot the building at an angle as to make a bigger triangle. how was that for a coup, eh? too bad this had to be in black and white, otherwise, you'd have seen the beautiful blue skies this building was set against.

scalene triangles are triangles which sides and angles are not equal, as opposed to an isosceles triangle which has two equal sides and two equal angles, and the equilateral triangles whose three sides and angles are all equal. that i remember from my third year high school geometry.

i always believed that i was never good at mathematics and like sciences, physics, geometry, trigonometry, chemistry, etc. in geometry, i had to maintain a minimum grade requirement of 87% to continue my scholarship for the next year. so i had to tell the teacher rather frankly that i have no idea what she was teaching us and i can't understand the book, even though it's in english. but i can't have an average of less than 87 or i won't be able to continue schooling. so she said for the finals, i just had to memorize the different kinds of angles and triangles. and that's how i know about triangles and still remember them. in exchange, i had to write a book report for her brother so her brother would pass his english subject. then, when i was in law school, a professor was impressed that i could do percentages at the top of my head, and he said i was very good in mathematics. now, don't be asking me about tangent and cosine. i'd need to google those. hahaha!

thank you very much for your views and kind comments. they are sincerely appreciated and i hope you like my triangles for today.

have you seen my happy sunflower shot from yesterday? let me pimp it to you; you can see it here: http://365project.org/summerfield/365-again/2012-07-23
Well spotted and captured! Interesting story about your geometry exams.
July 25th, 2012  
I like that you found the triangles. A mind that can find them would generally be good at math. Maybe it was just how you weretaught
July 25th, 2012  
I however can't write very well.
July 25th, 2012  
@pamfromcalgary - thank you, pam. i remember in one of my exams, she asked us to draw a circle using a protractor. twice it ended up in the air and on to someone's head. never got around to using it properly. got too low in that exam. the teacher and our class adviser were more upset than i was. teachers in those high end sciences have no patience i suppose with students who are average. so they just give up on the rest of the class if can't get it.
July 25th, 2012  
@jannkc - thank you, jann. what i noticed was that if you have a mind set that you can't do something or you're not good at something, then there's no motivation to understand or or learn it. when you have a compelling story to tell, you would be able to write it and write it well. ;-)
July 25th, 2012  
cool stories to go with your scalenes! how did the brother do on the book report ... ;-)
July 25th, 2012  
@sunnygreenwood - hahaha! he passed the subject because of that book report. the funny thing was we had the same teacher in english lit, although he was in a different class. my english teacher said she could swear the book report was uncannily similar in style to my book reports and the spelling was almost perfect. well, i had to write some words with bad spelling. thank you, anne.
July 25th, 2012  
Good eye to spot those
July 25th, 2012  
Great eye for spotting these! This is great!
July 25th, 2012  
Fantastic composition! 8) (You mentioned mathematics and a few other school subject-like, multi-syllabic words and I had to stop reading. To save my brain from a painful death. XD )
July 25th, 2012  
very nice B&W
July 25th, 2012  
Excellent collection of triangles! I like your composition too :) (and your story about maths!)
July 25th, 2012  
Sue
i like how you negotiated another year of schooling on scholarship.haha! love your take on the triangles here..looks good in b&w too.
July 25th, 2012  
@bkbinthecity - thank you, brian.

@slang - thank you, sean harry.

@myautofocuslife - algebra, calculus, statistics, recess...hahaha! you funny woman. thank you, livia. you'll have to bear five more days of triangles from me.
July 25th, 2012  
@steeler - thank you, howard.

@alia_801 - thank you, alia. got to liven up this triangle mess!

@roth - i had a lot of tricks in high school, like selling my notes so i have money to buy my favourite record (how lame!) and they were the wrong notes so the competition for high grades was contained to just a few of us :-) thank you, sue.
July 25th, 2012  
wonderful shot but, oh, i love the story. i was a whiz at math - how could i not be with a physicist for a father? but then i hit geometry and hit a wall, so to speak. areas and shapes, did not give a hoot about them. wanted to keep doing algebra, trigonometry - never wrapped my mind around it at all.
July 25th, 2012  
@catsmeowb - i have a lot of respect for people who can do math. i just do the simple ones, quick adds and divisions, percentages. the others, i leave to people like you. i did well in physics, i had to or i don't go to school. thank you, camille.
July 26th, 2012  
Good eye- they certainly look like triangles from here!
July 26th, 2012  
@olivetreeann - thank you, ann.
July 28th, 2012  
Lovely.
July 28th, 2012  
This is great. Awesome perspective for the triangles. Like the negative space and how you composed the shot.
As for mathematics, add a kid, I was really good. Teachers thought I was some sorta genius. Oh how wrong they were. Now I can barely remember my phone number let alone long division. Lol
August 11th, 2012  
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