Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
No flowers in this picture set for a change (there are some in the batch I took today, find ’em on Flickr). Taking photos of leaves when it’s windy is pretty frustrating, I had so many blurry shots because the wind whipped up at the wrong moment. Indoor photography tends not to have this problem, so I might need to think about looking at some challenges to branch out a bit into other subjects.
I’ll take some photographs of other things at some point. Maybe I should do some photography challenges? Right now it’s Triffids, because they’re rioting in the garden. Seriously. They’re just hiding the pitchforks and flaming torches when I get the camera out. There’s a whole bunch of new photos in my Flickr gallery, and a selection below.
I dusted off the SX600 to put it to photography use in the garden today (technically yesterday, but I haven’t been to bed yet) instead of using my phone. So much more versatile for taking photographs and better quality images. The SX40 has also been cleaned and battery charged for whenever I get around to it. Will have to find somewhere to go to use it.
I also went through the most ‘recent’ (ha! 2013-2017) folders to sort them out at last. I’ve uploaded a bunch of those to Flickr so that’s finally up to date. They include flowers, butterflies, some other wildlife and baby seals. How can you not love baby seals?
If there are interesting things growing in the garden, I’ll dabble in some photography on my work breaks. I’ve been doing this on Twitter recently, but I figure I’ll switch it to here and post a link there. This set of photographs was taken with my phone, a Samsung Galaxy S7. I’m generally impressed given it’s a phone camera, but really should dig out my better Canon cameras. Probably the SX600 HS (the PowerShot SX40 HS is a bit overkill for quick garden snaps). Triffids is just the name my group of friends uses for plant life in general, on the basis you can’t trust them. We’ve all seen Day of the Triffids, we’re not falling for their planty schemes.
Usually I post up to four photos, as that’s the Twitter limit for one post. Today it’s eight pictures, because I happen to really like taking apple blossom pictures so did a set for them.
I’ve had a lot of thinky thoughts after seeing Avengers: Infinity War twice and discussing it at length with @abjectcheddar, finally gotten around to compiling and clarifying those thoughts.
Obviously, I enjoyed it. Very much. It was well-paced, fun, funny, tragic, and it’s frankly astounding that they pulled off juggling so many characters in two and a half hours without making it feel like anyone was sidelined. It also managed to do what a really good, long fantasy book does for me when it switches between different character story lines. I’ll get into the chapter, the characters and situation, and then be resentful when the next chapter comes along and switches to a different set of characters and plot points. After a few pages, I get sucked in, and get resentful a switching back to the set of the previous chapter that I was resentful about leaving. Infinity War did this for me, and with the mixup of characters there was at no point a chapter that didn’t suck me in or make me think I’d be skipping it when I watch again on Blu-Ray.
Anyhow, the rest of my thoughts contain spoilers. So if you haven’t seen the film yet and have miraculously avoided spoilers (I salute you), then you may want to come back late when you’ve stuffed it into your eyeballs.
Been a while since I’ve had a personal blog that’s not Tumblr. I don’t like Tumblr for blogging because personal posts tend to get lost amongst the reblogs of cat pics, social justice posts and Captain America’s beard… probably. I haven’t been on there for about 6 months, but I doubt that the residents of Tumblr have missed that.
So, a blog. Mainly because tweet threads on Twitter gets mildly confusing, and if I’m going to pre-write a tweet thread to ensure it makes sense, I might as well just save the extra effort and make things into a blog post and just link to that. Not that tweet threads won’t still happen, because sometimes you just get caught up in the moment with this things.
What will I use it for? Whatever takes my fancy, really. Musings, rants, craft projects, films and TV shows have an impact on me, what games I’m playing. Probably photography, possibly food when I try a new successful recipe. Definitely gender stuff, because that’s stuff I have thinky thoughts on.
Will it be a regular thing? Who knows. I spent several years posting to Livejournal on a daily basis, sometimes several times a day. So it might be frequent, it might be once in a while. The hardest post is always the first, once that’s done it gets easier to post more.
I’ll get an About Me page updated in the near future, but if there’s anything you want to see me include or about, feel free to comment, tweet, DM or email me.