Success to the maid that will do so

[sovay]

I wish this picture had come out less impressionistically, but that would have required a camera that could, simultaneously and at the same time, zoom and stay in focus. spatch standing on the shore was struck by both me and the ferry leaving wakes.

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[gwynnega]

The photo is pretty great.

[sovay]

The photo is pretty great.

Thank you!

I am enjoying having all these oceanic pictures to post.

[selkie]

I don't know of any selkies between Wellfleet and Gloucester, but remember me to any mermaids.

[sovay]

I don't know of any selkies between Wellfleet and Gloucester, but remember me to any mermaids.

I remembered you to the sea.

[selkie]

Thank you. I think it helped. Been invoking all manner of deities lately who've been kind to me before.

[asakiyume]

That's you, in human form above the water and most likely something else below?

[sovay]

That's you, in human form above the water and most likely something else below?

That's me!

[cyphomandra]

That’s very artistic!! (also, faster! It’s gaining on you!)

[sovay]

That’s very artistic!! (also, faster! It’s gaining on you!)

I'll tell spatch! (I made it to shore without incident except that I had to be careful not to step on a lot of tiny, tiny hermit crabs.)

[pameladean]

TINY TINY HERMIT CRABS! Sorry, that was just so great. Hermit crabs are the best.

P.

[sovay]

TINY TINY HERMIT CRABS! Sorry, that was just so great. Hermit crabs are the best.

We tried to take pictures of some of the smallest crawling across my hands, but the camera insisted on focusing on my hip in the background, not the foregrounded tiny crabs. They were adorable.

[ethelmay]

I have been trying to take pictures of spiders and it is SO HARD. There was one wrapping up a dwarf hobbit fly on my porch the other day and I couldn't get it to look like anything but a blurred sack.

[thisbluespirit]

Very cool! (And I'm glad you got to go back to the sea again, too.)

[sovay]

Very cool! (And I'm glad you got to go back to the sea again, too.)

Thank you. (It's important.)

[brigdh]

Lovely photo! I quite like the Impressionist effect.

but that would have required a camera that could, simultaneously and at the same time, zoom and stay in focus.
Isn't this all camera phones, really? It's certainly been the case for all the ones I own – and trying to capture anything in darkness is even worse.

[sovay]

Lovely photo! I quite like the Impressionist effect.

Thank you!

Isn't this all camera phones, really? It's certainly been the case for all the ones I own – and trying to capture anything in darkness is even worse.

Alas, this was a real digital camera, just a rather ancient one. It's the one I use for most of my pictures of the city—my author's photo was taken with it. It behaves reasonably so long as you don't ask it to do anything complex, like zoom. Or, for that matter, take a picture in low light.