Shit, July’s gotta flee the ball, leaving behind one ratty water sandal that the prince isn’t even going to risk touching and instead simply put some ‘Biohazard’ tape around and go peruse Tinder instead. Yes indeedydo, it’s the end of the month, and what kind of abstract image did our evil stepphotographer prepare for us?
Why, it’s… that.
So, here’s the thing about fate and causality: if you know something is supposed to happen, is it better to simply let it happen and not screw with the trouser legs of time and multiverses and all that jazz, or attempt to prevent it from happening and defeat causality and potentially kill yourself and all mankind because Fate is a butterfly that might be eaten by the garden
N 42°57’7.65″ W 77°35’29.76″ Google Earth location
I think everyone in the northern hemisphere is feeling the heat these days, so we needed a cold one, thus this jumps ahead in the lineup. And I’m a day early for the scheduled abstract, but we’ll cope.
This is Honeoye Falls on Honeoye Creek in the town of (wait for it) Honeoye Falls, NY, back when I had relatives
Checking out the back forty of Walkabout Estates by the headlamp tonight, I bent down to pick up a couple of things, stood up, and found myself face-to-face with an eastern deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) perched atop the fence. I’ve seen this several times before – they seem to like traversing the fence – but this one stayed put, even as I leaned close, and flinched
Well, some are at least…
I’m sorting images right now, and a lot of them were shot vertically but not rotated until now, more than a handful of which I was fairly sure were going to be discarded anyway so I didn’t bother – why I decided to save this admittedly minuscule effort is a question for another post. And no, I don’t have my thumbnail/gallery program
N 36° 1’48.03″ W 78°53’50.60″ Google Earth location
While the location shown provides a high likelihood of seeing this species, it really only applies to precisely the location shown. Because this is the Butterfly House of the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, yet malachites (the butterfly,
Switched out the ‘clear’ diffuser for the white one on the new softbox, and the difference is noticeable – what we’re looking at here is the round light reflecting from the frog’s eye. Still not perfectly even, but probably the best I can hope for with this design (yes, I’ve actually considered a backwards-facing flash head into a parabola,
It has been a week without posts, which I don’t even do when I’m traveling, always having a couple of even token posts appear to keep from announcing that the house is empty. Yet I’ve been here in Walkabout Studios and the environs the entire time, just wrapped up in projects, to say nothing of it being ridiculously hot out there and not only is it uncomfortable to be
N 33°30’40.28″ W 79° 3’54.10″ Google Earth location
This wonderful close approach of a tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor) comes courtesy of Huntington Beach State Park, between Murrell’s Inlet and Pawley’s Island, South Carolina –
I mentioned in the previous post how long some of these take to put together, and decided to break it off into a separate post. So here’s the deal.
The first part is fairly easy now, which is the photos – I can generally have a dozen of them cropped, resized, and ready to go within ten minutes or so. Unless I decided to do an animated gif (pronounced, “GIM-ee-sum-LUV-en,”)