{"id":41782,"date":"2026-05-30T01:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=41782"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:14:40","slug":"may-i-leave-you-with-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/05\/may-i-leave-you-with-this\/","title":{"rendered":"May I leave you with this?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess I’m not too<\/em> tired of May puns<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s the last day of the month, and so time for the end-of-the-month abstracts, We cheat and go into archival images for this, actually waaayy<\/em> back, into negative scans from the last century. Well, the scans might not necessarily be, but the negatives certainly were. I came across these both when I was trying to find some other original scans, decided they needed to be in the lineup, and now is a good time for them.<\/p>\n

\"underwater
So this was in 1993, unless it was 1992 or 1994. No editing, here, just an underwater shot with one of those disposable waterproof cameras while our group of friends were horsing around at the pool – this is shot facing the surface, the rippling water distorting the view above, while the stray reflection of my foot makes an appearance. Actually, thinking on this, I’m not 100% sure this is my<\/em> foot. No, there weren’t stray feet floating around in the pool, but I’m vaguely suspicious this was actually taken by The Manatee instead, and thus is his<\/em> foot. I’m looking at my foot right now, and it’s not this grey, but I don’t think this was good film either. A mystery for the ages, unless The Manatee comes in and sues me for unauthorized use of his photo. If you’re seeing nothing above, we have our answer.<\/p>\n

I definitely took the next one though, and it’s much older than that.<\/p>\n

\"dock
This was as I was coming into work in Skaneateles, New York, during a heavy fog, and just happened to have the old Wittnauer<\/a> with me – this is almost certainly 1988. The negative is long gone, or at least I believe it is – several choice (for a given definition) negatives that I’d had prints made of disappeared, and I’m thinking I misplaced the protective sleeves someplace that they later got discarded. Still hoping they appear tucked into a binder or book someplace, but it’s been too many years now. Anyway, if you look hard into the mist, you’ll see a dark shape in there, which is actually a tour boat at the end of the dock. The further detail not visible at this resolution is the lettering of the signs, saying “No Trespassing – City of Syracuse,” which I guess was the governing body for the historical stone dock sitting right behind the wooden one. The same stone dock that was used for excursions by the City of Syracuse<\/em>, an historic steamship that used to ply this lake and whose wreckage sits under water just off the end of this dock – I’d actually snorkeled down to the remaining timbers one time, but it was after this image was taken. Get it, though? The entire pic is a reference to the ghost of the ship. Fartsy on so many levels…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess I’m not too tired of May puns… Anyway, it’s the last day of the month, and so time for the end-of-the-month abstracts, We cheat and go into archival images for this, actually waaayy back, into negative scans from the last century. Well, the scans might not necessarily be, but the negatives certainly were. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1529,8707,2194,5181,42,422],"class_list":["post-41782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-city-of-syracuse","tag-fog","tag-reflection","tag-skaneateles-lake","tag-underwater-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41786,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41782\/revisions\/41786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}