Part-time prevaricator
I spotted some lovely flowers in a back lane on today’s bike ride. Since I had my camera, I stopped and snapped some photos. Enjoy!
I snapped about a dozen photos of a ’55 Chevy that was sitting on the street at a ball game this evening, and stitched them together, Brenizer-method style.
On my bike ride this afternoon, I think I figured out a thematically-satisfying scene near the end of the short story I’m working on. It involves the doctrine of true names, a lawyer, a wizard, their son, and a rather dire threat.
I’m looking forward to writing it. I’ve got a couple sections to write before I get there, but now I’ve got a target to aim for.
Header image: Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash.
Another weekend, another 27 km on the bike, another smattering of photos.
Got a preference on this one? Near, or far?
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Another weekend, another 25-km ride with my camera. I found lilacs, country roads, and an angel in a graveyard for you.
Want prints? Let me know, we can work something out.
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I shot the lilacs with a polarizing lens, which can add drama to the sky. Which one do you like better? I’m partial to the darker sky, which makes the flowers really stand out.
I went on campus yesterday for the first time in a month, and took a few minutes to check just how empty the Knowles Douglas/Student Union complex was. No lights were on; it was all lit, softly, by the sun.
Above is the corridor that connects the Student Union building to the KD space, where the bookstore and the coffee shop are. Below is a view of the closed coffee shop.
And, as a bonus, today I saw a robin in the yard. I snapped a few photos at a high zoom through the screen and window. I think the lines of the screen contribute to the slightly surreal look of the photo.
I’ve been reading lately about the Brenizer method (something I’ve apparently been doing already, without knowing that’s what it’s called). Essentially, you take a bunch of photos of a still subject, then stitch them together into one image. The resulting panorama will have the depth-of-field (ie, background blur) of a single photo taken with a much, much wider lens.
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I don’t recall ever being on ACC’s North Hill campus since, well, since ACC took it over. On my ride today, I decided to stop in and see the sights.
The main building, pictured above, was part of the Brandon Mental Health Centre before the grounds were purchased by the College.
Behind that building I found a lovely little park-like space.
Also back there was a chimney tower so tall it took three photos to capture it all, stitched together using hugin.
I also found a secondary building where a couple small trees appear to have taken root in the brickwork.
I was quite enamoured of the shadows in the one photo, and I can’t decide if I prefer it in colour, or in black and white. What’s your preference?
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Down at the Riverbank Discovery Centre: a blackbird on a perch.
A couple photos, one from the southwest end of the city, one from the pedestrian bridge over the Assiniboine, both sharing a certain beige tone.
