Going into the city, taken from the train, across the empty station platform. No one about.
Snaps & Chats
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Backlight 2
Snapping the sun through narrow opening in the leaves of the backlit plant forms a small aperture creating an interesting flared star pattern in the lens.
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Backlight 1
On days when the sun shines, I watch the sun rise from the dining room table. We really should clean the door one day, but the light is much more interesting through the grit and grime that accumulates there.
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A Camera I Almost Forgot
Some time ago, I was cleaning out my office desk and stumbled across a camera I knew I had but had mostly forgotten about, and thought it would be a perfect addition to the fleet of cameras I’ll be using for SnapShots. It’s a remarkably good little camera, especially given it’s nearly twenty years old.
While the on-paper specs aren’t brilliant by today’s standards, the camera is still capable of deliving nice JPEG pictures. A 9MP CCD sensor is plenty, especially given the small sensor size, and the image-stabilized 10X optical zoom lens (36-360mm equivalence) is pretty sharp. For those interested, all the specs can be found at Canon’s online camera museum.
One aspect of the camera that I really like is that it’s primary power source is common AA batteries. Its internal clock battery is a relatively easy-to-find watch battery. This may not seem all that important, but most cameras now use specially designed batteries, and for older cameras, they can be hard to find and expensive.
North Dakota prairie as seen from Amtrak Empire Builder, Sept 5, 2009. -
Winter Coat
It snowed here. A couple of inches yesterday, and another inch or so over night. The overnight snow was the wet, clingy, mushy kind that usually just leaves a mess. But it also clung to the trees and bushes, kind of like a winter coat.
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