Squeaking in under the wire with this one, getting out two specially-produced abstract images to see August on its way (since I found absolutely nothing during my normal perambulations.) Will this make them better, or worse than normal? Who’s judging? Who’s reading?

Anyway, what I produced after a little playing around a short while ago:

A handful of people might recognize this, since it contains just enough context, and a few more may be able to make a decent guess based on the progression of the numbers visible on the dial, especially the red dot by the ‘100.’ The dot denotes the highest setting that flash synchronization could be achieved, a trait of older cameras. This is the top panel of a Minox subminiature camera, often called a spy camera though it’s a lot more likely that actual spies used cameras that didn’t look like cameras, so this is more of a spy wannabe camera. I’m slowly collecting some of these, simply because I like them.

And another, more recognizable but likely more fartistic too.

The sharp-eyed or those familiar with macro work will spot the traits here, knowing this was fairly high magnification and so the smaller white shell is really small. These were all from Cayuga Lake in central New York, several years back – such shells would shift around the lake bottom depending on vagaries of winds and currents, and while I was there a small cove was littered with a thick carpet of these, but clear of them when I returned a few years later. Species? Not even gonna try.

So we’ll send August on its way and soon see what September has to offer, shall we? I mean, I don’t think we have much choice…