Part-time prevaricator
Top image: 19-image Brenizer panorama, because apparently I like making my computer fan earn its keep.
Below: near, or far?
Top image: 19-image Brenizer panorama. Images were 55mm f/4, giving an effective final shot at 35mm f/2.5.
Sighted on my bike ride. (In fairness it didn’t look quite that dramatic in real life.)
The sky was that weird evening colour that could be perfectly clear or could be a solid wall of cloud. But the moon showed me it wasn’t cloud.
The 1st Street bridge, specifically.
20-image panorama, each 24mm f/2.8 1/250 sec., assembled in Hugin.
Also, there’s a slightly different crop on Instagram.
Just off the #1. It was still too bright at 10 PM for astrophotography, but I did like the look of the sky.
I found this little guy walking very slowly—like, look-up-torpor-in-the-dictionary slowly—on the cold concrete floor in my basement. I helped him outside where he could sit in the sun and warm up. About ten minutes later, when I checked, he’d flown off.
I hopped on my bike for about an hour today, and I bring you these photos from my ride. Above: a 9‑image panorama from the southwest end of town. Below: Lilacs and sky. (What’s your favourite focus? I prefer the flowers myself.)
I took a stab a re-editing a photo of the aurora I took in 2016. It’s a lot more dramatic now. What do you think?
They have such a lovely smell and such a brief season.
Update: In a bit of weird synchronicity, I posted this the day before “Wear the Lilac Day”, a day created by fans of the late Sir Terry Pratchett—one of my favourite authors—to commemorate his writing and to support research into Alzheimer Disease. Since Dad had dementia, this one strikes me a bit as “is the universe telling me something?”
A bunch of rejections cropped up in my email in the last week or so. I know it’s part of the job (the game? the process?), but it’s not all that much fun.
As I was gearing up to re-submit the pieces in question, though, I got a cheery little message from a friend and fellow author, which made me feel better about the whole thing.
Meant to say I quite enjoyed your story “The Smoke” and I hope you find a good placement for it. Didn’t have much else to add, I like the narrator and the ending. […] Great job!
So, thanks for that, Chadwick.
Currently “The Smoke” is in the middle of editing, but I assure you I’ll be sending it back to him when it’s ready for the next round. If you’d like to read it too—it’s a viking/Iceland–inspired ghost story… in space!—do let me know.