2026-08-09Hello!One of my favorite jokes is to imagine the opposite of a song's lyrics, meaning, or even melody. It only amuses me, I know, but I keep doing it. In this case, it's Here Comes The Sun by the Beatles, which was the first song where I found the joke. The "negative harmony cover" of that song has been...

2026-09-08Hello! There's still a few weeks left until autumn begins, but I am so ready. Cozy colors and pretty hoodies. My (limited) wardrobe is already prepared.For now, I'm at my backyard garden realizing that I didn't put enough care into this project as I hoped. In fact, I left it to fend for itself for weeks at...

2026-09-07Hello! I've never talked about movies on this website, have I?Along with the TV shows Jet Lag and Taskmaster, I'm watching movies at home while I recover from an illness. The last movie I remember watching in the theater was one of the Sonic movie sequels (I think it was Sonic 2, but it could have been...

2026-09-06Hello!For all my comments on urban design, I have to admit that the shopping mall, for all its flaws, is still a place I visit from time to time.Looking at the maps and directories, I found this camera store near me and stopped by to see what they had in stock. While there were a few banners and documents...

2026-09-05Hello!This horseshoe crab (and a few others) was resting on the sand. I'm not sure if it's alive, but the book I was reading happened to tell a story about "kind but ignorant guests" that interrupted the animal's mating behavior by chucking it back into the sea. I left the horseshoe crab alone.This book...

2026-09-04Hello! This is a technical article, and even I think I went a bit overboard with this one.I read one Wikipedia article on Ansel Adams's photographic Zone System and I think I know everything. The arrogance! In my defense, it was the clearest article online I could find on the zone system; the rest were so...

2026-09-03Hello!One of the reasons that Day 200: Two Hundred Links was late — 83 hours late, in fact — in its publishing was because I wanted to get it checked through multiple checks of quality control.If I had even more time, I would have sent the draft to a few people for a sanity check. Nevertheless, I sent a...

2026-09-02Hello! I took a much-needed break outdoors and went to the beach.While on the trail to the beach, I came across this view into the prairie beyond the line of trees. I think prairie is the right word; it's not empty of trees or shrubs, but it is flat and coastal land. Unless this used to be a forest and the...

2026-09-01Hello! September will be the month of street photography for me, I hope. I know it usually includes faces and happenstance moments. Just have to set things up down the line to allow for such opportunities.I found this concrete passageway and found the leading lines of the rails to make for a good...

2026-08-31Hello!This long row of buildings was one of the the only structures on this flat, green field. This one, with its front porch crumbling, was not safe to enter.I don't know which building this was; they're all identical, set apart only by their decay.The National Park Service manages it, claiming these...

2026-08-30Hello!When I looked around the internet for street photography, I came across some award-winning images that were monochrome. So I know monochrome can look good, I just don't have the skills to make it shine. I'm hoping that this week of experimenting will help.I'm also going to be following a suggestion...

2026-08-29Hello!There are subway stations that are so above the ground, I took the stairs up to the top of a several-story building. The view was great.I made a similar image in the metro stations of Washington DC. This one is an improvement, I think. It's not as shaky, and the colors turned out better since it's...