A little over 5km from my house. The above photo is a panorama of 18 photos, each 24mm, f/2.8; the resulting photo (if the online calculator is correct) is effectively 15mm, f/1.8.
Also: I like fence posts.
The meadow
panorama
Writing Retreat 2021, day 6
On Friday, I:
- Continued outlining “Praise The Torch”
- Did some update work on my grant application
- Read more Zero History—I think I’m just about halfway through now
- Went for a bike ride—not a long one, but I climbed a lot of hills and got a few photos
- Watched a few more Firefly episodes
I decided that, even though the sky was clear, I’d stay in and not keep myself awake past 2 am again. I was in bed reading by 11 and asleep before midnight, and I think that was the right decision.
And now I’m going to start packing up the cabin. My time here draws short. As always, I’m feeling conflicting emotions: I’ll be happy to be home, but I’d love another week doing this kind of thing too.
Vacations: They’re Never Long Enough.
Under the bridge
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.
Bike ride, April 10, 2021
The weather’s supposed to turn wintry again for a few days, so I took advantage of today’s nice weather for a good long bike ride—27.8km, which took about 1¾ hour or so of cycling (I stopped to take photos and to chat with a friend, so I was gone from the house for 2½ hours).
I took my camera along, too, and snapped some photos.
Goose 
Contrail 
The river
The contrail photo above is actually a panorama of about six photos. Compare and contrast below with a single-frame version of the same image.
Sunrise this morning
Leaving the farm first thing this morning, we saw this.
Nerdy details: Panorama of 6 photos, each 50mm, 1/80 second, f/1.8, ISO 800, stitched together using Hugin.
The river is high
But I guess 155mm of rain in a single day—honestly, in about 6 hours—and then another, what, 30mm in about half an hour a couple days later will do that.
Taken on a 20km bike ride on Canada Day.
I’m glad that’s not my truck 
A bug sunning itself on the bridge 
The storm knocked down some trees
The white lines in the image above show roughly where the water should be.
More Brenizers
Before it got too hot today (34°C again, with a humidex of 38), I hopped on my bike. I took it easy—it was already about 25°C at 9:30 in the morning—and I took some photos of BU.
I also took a few more Brenizer-style panoramas, as practice. One didn’t turn out, but three seemed all right. (There’s some weirdness to the pole behind the deer statue, but I’m posting it anyways.)
As always: if you want prints of any of the photos, here or elsewhere on my site, let me know.
A ’55 Chevy
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.
Brenizer bike
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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