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Wherein, having promised pictures for quite some time, I finally get around to posting them. Most of these were taken in mid-to-late April, early May. I hope the suspense has not generated any real expectations of talent.
I saw this building several weeks in a row, passing behind the Porter Exchange, before I remembered to bring my camera and photograph it.
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ericmvan from the afternoon we saw the glass sea creatures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. This is the only one that came out a blur, but it's also the only one with a Duchenne smile. The coelacanth looked more or less like itself each time.
Flowering branches, as I walked around the Res. I loved the color of the sky.
This is not the Arlington Reservoir. This is the little stream on the other side of the dike, where I take a shortcut around to the bike path.
Occasionally it contains ducks.
There was earth-moving machinery where the baseball diamond had been. That could almost be a line from Edward Gorey.
I'm very fond of this picture, actually.
Most of the black and white photographs came out surprisingly well. In normal life, however, the lilac tree does not have a forcefield around it.
I also like this one oflesser_celery. It's like proof that he exists.
As does Harvard.
Two summers ago at Two Lights, I took pictures of stone that looked like petrified wood. Now the reverse is true.
Res ipsa loquitur.
I suspect the intermittent halo effect is a flaw in my camera, but it's not a bad effect.
Walking around the Res again. These are not lovers in a ballad, a twine of roses and briar, but I will say they are.
And this is the unkillable squash-beast, otherwise known as the vaguely goose-like, vaguely dragon-necked gourd we bought for Halloween last year. Then it was bright green; now it's a kind of freckled khaki, but it seems to have mummified over the winter and I fully expect it still to be glaring from the chives come next Halloween.
I couldn't articulate what disturbed me about these flowerpots when I took the picture. I now realize they remind me of canopic jars.
And bridging awkwardly from Anubis to Bast—this is the beautiful little black cat who lives with my brother and his fiancée. Her name is Mischief.
Don't mess with her.
That's it until the next four rolls come back!
I saw this building several weeks in a row, passing behind the Porter Exchange, before I remembered to bring my camera and photograph it.
I have three pictures of
ericmvan from the afternoon we saw the glass sea creatures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. This is the only one that came out a blur, but it's also the only one with a Duchenne smile. The coelacanth looked more or less like itself each time.Flowering branches, as I walked around the Res. I loved the color of the sky.
This is not the Arlington Reservoir. This is the little stream on the other side of the dike, where I take a shortcut around to the bike path.
Occasionally it contains ducks.
There was earth-moving machinery where the baseball diamond had been. That could almost be a line from Edward Gorey.
I'm very fond of this picture, actually.
Most of the black and white photographs came out surprisingly well. In normal life, however, the lilac tree does not have a forcefield around it.
I also like this one of
lesser_celery. It's like proof that he exists.As does Harvard.
Two summers ago at Two Lights, I took pictures of stone that looked like petrified wood. Now the reverse is true.
Res ipsa loquitur.
I suspect the intermittent halo effect is a flaw in my camera, but it's not a bad effect.
Walking around the Res again. These are not lovers in a ballad, a twine of roses and briar, but I will say they are.
And this is the unkillable squash-beast, otherwise known as the vaguely goose-like, vaguely dragon-necked gourd we bought for Halloween last year. Then it was bright green; now it's a kind of freckled khaki, but it seems to have mummified over the winter and I fully expect it still to be glaring from the chives come next Halloween.
I couldn't articulate what disturbed me about these flowerpots when I took the picture. I now realize they remind me of canopic jars.
And bridging awkwardly from Anubis to Bast—this is the beautiful little black cat who lives with my brother and his fiancée. Her name is Mischief.
Don't mess with her.
That's it until the next four rolls come back!
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I think it keeps down the rabbit population in the area.
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The halo effect is interesting--perhaps many things have actually got forcefields round them, and your camera's simply our only way of perceiving them. ;-)
Cute little cat your brother and his fiancée have got.
The squash-beast is also interesting, although I'm not sure it looks like a very good pet. It makes me think of Gorey, although perhaps it's that your caption on the photograph of earth-moving machinery in the park set me up to think of Gorey.
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It's the weirdest species of spirit photography I've seen . . .
It makes me think of Gorey, although perhaps it's that your caption on the photograph of earth-moving machinery in the park set me up to think of Gorey.
No; it's the sort of thing that would have grown in one of his character's gardens, although you'd never have found out what it was, and in the morning everyone would anyway have disappeared.
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Which is why it's so brilliant. Ordinary spirit photography is quite interesting, but it's been done.
and in the morning everyone would anyway have disappeared.
And it might have been the squash's fault, but it could be equally likely the doing of the antimacassar.
That said, do try to post soon--if you don't, I'll be wondering if I should start dowsing the map for your location and preparing to make an emergency trip with rowan stakes, holy water, cold iron, and whatever else might be necessary for dealing with a demonic squash thing.
Because, however much I may enjoy Gorey, in my dealings with this sort of thing I prefer to take my cues from
Vixen the SlayerBureau 13.halo effect
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Neither. Should I be?
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If it were present consistently, it would probably be a light leak, but it seems just to show up with flash and shooting close to the sun.
A lens hood (flower-shape, not round, is better, if available for your lens) might help, particularly in outdoor situations. The down side to a filter is that it can cast a shadow if you shoot with flash (on some cameras and lenses anyway) if you don't have the sort of attachment flash that stands way up.
A neutral or UV filter (it's not worth fussing with a polarizer) takes out glare in general, enhancing contrast without affecting color, and many photographers always have one on each lens because it also protects the lens. Better to crack or scratch a filter than the glass! If you try a filter, note that in some conditions it has the effect of taking you down about one f-stop.
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I love the one that looks -- well, as if the flowers were clouds, caught between buildings. They look in motion, like foam or -- something.
Also, heh. Awesome bumper sticker.
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You're welcome! I'm very glad.
Awesome bumper sticker.
It's right up there with "Republicans for Voldemort 2008."
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If I thought I were good enough, I'd love to.
Hmm.