{"id":15650,"date":"2014-12-19T06:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=15650"},"modified":"2014-12-19T06:20:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T11:20:18","slug":"dont-mind-the-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2014\/12\/dont-mind-the-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t mind the gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, it’s been too long since the last post, I’ll admit it. There are various reasons, but you know what? It’s a blog<\/em> – it’s not a job, or any kind of obligation except for how I view it myself (and obviously, I haven’t felt too obligated.) If there are no photos that I think pass muster, and no topics I feel I can tackle decently, then why put something up just for the sake of some self-imposed schedule? There are a lot of writers who find themselves obligated to produce something, and very often, the results don’t compare to their previous work. I’ve never liked that kind of thing.<\/p>\n

That said, there is another post in the works, which may appear quite quickly, or may not – there is a potential long interruption looming. There are also several drafts that I’ve been kicking around for ages that I may finish up as well. More will appear, sooner or later. I’m still here, just not posting as much right now.<\/p>\n

Some days ago, Why Evolution Is True<\/em> featured a video and other content by Matthew Inman, otherwise known as The Oatmeal<\/em>. While I’ve had no problem linking to The Oatmeal<\/em> in the past<\/a>, I’m linking to WEIT<\/em> this time because there’s a bunch of additional content therein. The main bit is a video, poignant in the manner only elaborate sarcasm can accomplish, and if you’ve read much of this blog, you know I’m behind this 100%. But then there’s a following exchange that is featured, which is also quite entertaining. So check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It also, I might add, ties in nicely with the other post in the works, which means I have a bit of a theme going. That’s clarss, that is. Lit’riture.<\/p>\n

During my absence from posting, I’ve been working on various projects, a few of them photographic, many of them not turning out the way they were intended. This is no big deal;<\/strong> that’s how you learn, right? But some of them might eventually make it here, and there remains a few arthropod pics I could toss up, but really, I’ve been trying not to get into a rut with those, which is another reason for the scarcity of posts. Mostly, it’s been the scarcity of subjects, which is typical winter conditions, and partially due to the sinuses not being kind to me this fall.<\/p>\n

[As I type this, there is bread in the oven and a timer ticking on my desk, which I find to be a serious hindrance to concentration – most background noise is, and I rarely even have music on, much less a TV, but ticking seems especially obnoxious.]<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’ll leave you with one of my casual photo projects, a holiday tree ornament with the fireplace crackling in the background. It’s easy to consider something like this a simple shot to capture – until you try it. It’s mostly ambient light, which means a long exposure – that translates to tripod and a completely motionless ornament, which is hard to do with something dangling from a string, light enough to be stirred by air currents, suspended from a bouncy branch of a tree standing on a wood floor. I eventually stabilized it by rehanging the ornament to sit atop another branch. It took a little playing around to get the angle that worked best for such a narrow field of view;<\/strong> the tripod was crammed into a corner, barely allowing me room to see through the viewfinder. I had to cut down the fire in the background (it’s gas, so that<\/em> was easier, at least) because the flames were high enough to get cut off by the top of the fireplace, giving them a curious flat-topped appearance. To give a little more sparkle and definition, the ornament and the branches have some additional illumination from an LED flashlight held off to the left – it took a few exposures to determine how long to do this for;<\/strong> the entire exposure was too much. And with all that, I missed having the little red bow facing front and center.<\/p>\n

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