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-"What will be, if I ate the moon from the sky?"-the young dragon asked.-"It looks so delightful!"
Dragon that ate the moon, AlviaAlcedo on deviantArt
I'm sure there's ancient mythology explaining eclipses as dragons eating the moon...
( Lunar eclipse photos )
There was another faint point near the moon tonight - only the brightest stars and objects are visible from my flat thanks to a street lamp outside. Fortunately Home Planet has an artificial horizon!
Again decoding the symbols, ♃ is Jupiter off to the side and ♇ is Pluto (which is far too faint to be visible), so it must be ♄ which is the symbol for Saturn.
Dragon that ate the moon, AlviaAlcedo on deviantArt
I'm sure there's ancient mythology explaining eclipses as dragons eating the moon...
( Lunar eclipse photos )
There was another faint point near the moon tonight - only the brightest stars and objects are visible from my flat thanks to a street lamp outside. Fortunately Home Planet has an artificial horizon!
Again decoding the symbols, ♃ is Jupiter off to the side and ♇ is Pluto (which is far too faint to be visible), so it must be ♄ which is the symbol for Saturn.
Distracted by sunsets
Sep. 29th, 2018 08:40 pmI really ought to pop out and get something for supper... but why do that when I can spend the past hour out on my balcony, watching a beautiful sunset instead...
( Photos! )
( Photos! )
I swear I'm not intentionally making this a weekly thing... but here I am, another Sunday evening, and another random film.
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boggyb: *turns on scanner*
Scanner: whirr whirr whirr THUNK BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ
Okay, there'll be short interlude while I open the scanner and give it another dose of PTFE lubricant...
Scanner: whirr whirr groan grumble whirr
Close enough. One of these days I'll pick up some degreaser and do the job properly by removing the existing gunk. Anyway, today's random film is another roll of Fujicolor 200 with the label Green 1601. I'm going with the Fuji Super HR 200 Gen 2 preset this time (insert standard rant about film negative colour correction).
Most of the photos on this roll were from a walk on a sunny spring afternoon in 2017 near Lee-on-Solent, heading from Thatcher's Copse towards the Chilling Cliffs. In photography terms this was one of my more successful outings - most photos that I took came out quite well, so prepare for incoming picspam!
( Picspam! )
boggyb: *turns on scanner*Scanner: whirr whirr whirr THUNK BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ
Okay, there'll be short interlude while I open the scanner and give it another dose of PTFE lubricant...
Scanner: whirr whirr groan grumble whirr
Close enough. One of these days I'll pick up some degreaser and do the job properly by removing the existing gunk. Anyway, today's random film is another roll of Fujicolor 200 with the label Green 1601. I'm going with the Fuji Super HR 200 Gen 2 preset this time (insert standard rant about film negative colour correction).
Most of the photos on this roll were from a walk on a sunny spring afternoon in 2017 near Lee-on-Solent, heading from Thatcher's Copse towards the Chilling Cliffs. In photography terms this was one of my more successful outings - most photos that I took came out quite well, so prepare for incoming picspam!
( Picspam! )
Team Awesome
Aug. 13th, 2017 11:11 pmDuring the gloriously sunny weather a couple of months ago house group chose to meet down on the beach, where we actually did very little housegroupy-stuff but instead enjoyed ice cream, toasted marshmallows (and wine gums), and wonderful sunsets...
Team House Group - Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men (Mat 4:19)
Cross-posted to deviantArt
Sky anvil
Cross-posted to deviantArt
This particular cloud put me in mind of Aslan...
Cross-posted to deviantArt
Team House Group - Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men (Mat 4:19)
Cross-posted to deviantArt
Sky anvil
Cross-posted to deviantArt
This particular cloud put me in mind of Aslan...
Cross-posted to deviantArt
Random film time! I have things to do and so I'm procrastinating by feeding another negative to the scanner.
Today's mystery film is... Red 1022, a roll of Boots-branded Fujicolor 200 from 2007. How do I know it's from 2007? Well, because it's the follow-up film to this set with the rest of the Battle Abbey photos. Come to think of it I ought to be able to date this very accurately as I also took a digital camera with me... lemme dig through the archives. Yep, 16th August 2007 according to the EXIF data. That was only a few days before I moved out of the student house I shared at Sussex and left Brighton for pastures new.
( Lots of photos! )
Today's mystery film is... Red 1022, a roll of Boots-branded Fujicolor 200 from 2007. How do I know it's from 2007? Well, because it's the follow-up film to this set with the rest of the Battle Abbey photos. Come to think of it I ought to be able to date this very accurately as I also took a digital camera with me... lemme dig through the archives. Yep, 16th August 2007 according to the EXIF data. That was only a few days before I moved out of the student house I shared at Sussex and left Brighton for pastures new.
( Lots of photos! )
Random film time! Today's mystery film is... Blue 1626! Another one from late in my university days. One evening pleaseremove was round, and we (along with most of the house) spontaneously decided to drive to Beachy Head to watch the sunset. I posted a couple of digital photos back in 2007, but I also took the Nikon F-301 with me.
The film is another rebranded Fujicolor 200 (I probably bought a bag of the stuff from Boots) so I'm trying the same settings as last time.
As a random aside, the back of the film has been gunked with something or other, which Boots presumably didn't notice when developing it as the marks are visible in their prints. Since it was the base side rather than the emulsion I attacked it (very gently!) with a few drops of isopropyl-alcohol-containing lens cleaner which quite happily dissolved the gunk. Infra-red cleaning took care of the rest. Result!
( Photos! )
pleaseremove was round, and we (along with most of the house) spontaneously decided to drive to Beachy Head to watch the sunset. I posted a couple of digital photos back in 2007, but I also took the Nikon F-301 with me.The film is another rebranded Fujicolor 200 (I probably bought a bag of the stuff from Boots) so I'm trying the same settings as last time.
As a random aside, the back of the film has been gunked with something or other, which Boots presumably didn't notice when developing it as the marks are visible in their prints. Since it was the base side rather than the emulsion I attacked it (very gently!) with a few drops of isopropyl-alcohol-containing lens cleaner which quite happily dissolved the gunk. Infra-red cleaning took care of the rest. Result!
( Photos! )
The ever-changing sky
Nov. 13th, 2013 11:41 pmGoodnight Mr. Tom
Last sunday I went for a walk along the coast, from a little west of Solent Breezes (which is not in Southampton despite what the location metadata on this post says - blame Google Maps) all the way to Lee-on-Solent. Along the way I took just a few photos of the ever-changing sky...
