I hope I can keep this new habit going. I’ve been waking around the area surrounding my building. As the season changes, it won’t always be dark at lunch (6:30pm aka 1830). I snapped a few of the base x-mas tree before they pull it back down. Not the prettiest tree, but it’s .. big.
It is always hard to explain to people who aren’t artistic, or enjoy photographs; that phones are fine for family snapshots, pictures of people at a party, or snapshots of your stock 200,000 mile, $3,000 Kia with $10,000 wheels, and bald tires. When you don’t want the software to fudge your photos in your phone, you use cameras and lenses that are designed to produce those kinds of images with out the software faking it (pixel peep an iPhone or Pixel phone image, and you can see where the software fudged around people to get that blurry back ground – called depth of field or shallow depth of field).
Oh, and speaking of that cheap ass beater with unreasonably priced upgrades. Here’s my 2005 Ford Crown Victoria LX. Bought for $3,800, spent the next year loading it with $15,000 worth of what I wanted (Manual transmission (clutch pedal, shifter, re-tuned the computer), Android 13 touch screen head-unit (stereo), sub-woofers, custom hidden amplifier rack, duel exhaust, wheels, and different rear-end gears. It is my daily, it isn’t driven nicely, and it is fun as my everyday car.
Walking around my building at night is kind of nice because I’m sure someone would be bent if they saw me with a camera (no, I’m not taking pictures of things I shouldn’t). It also makes some of the mundane things look moody, and cinematic.
I really don’t have any words to put here. Maybe with this medication change I’ll get some of my creative writing back, but for now, I let the camera speak for me.
Off we go. Last post of 2025 probably. We’ll see.
~me
