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Jun 04 2008

A Shot In The Dark

Posted by: ryno in Photography, art, insomnia, perception, tags: , , , , , ,

A couple of posts back, I mentioned the desire to shoot some foggy night pics. Unfortunately the fog is not quite so heavy tonight, but I decided to have a go anyway: finding distractions is a bit important to me at the moment.

I managed to find a .PDF of the manual for my camera, so I could RTFM. The mode I wanted was “turn the little dial to the picture of the crescent moon on a black background”. Damn, that technical stuff is so counter-intuitive! </facetiousness marker for the literal-minded>

Squint along with me as I stumble the streets. As always, clicky-makes-biggy.

Dockland? Haunted mansions? Ansell Adams overdoing the silver nitrate?


I wish I could have caught one of these lights about 3AM last night: it was just a cone of light and even the trees weren’t visible.


The halo effect on the lights is remniscent of stars in a David Malin photo-poster I have.


Cue private-eye movie theme…


It’s not the moon.


… and as the second moon rose…


There were dark, furtive creatures afoot in the night, slaves to the call of their natural desires. While looking for a spot to brace the camera on a lamp-post, I saw this fellow in silhouette…

A rendezvous had been planned…


“Bugsy sent me.”


The Sekrit Antenna-shake is exchanged.

“Quick, under here! I think we’re being watched.”

Bed now, methinks. G’night, Both My Readers™.

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5 Responses to “A Shot In The Dark”
  1. Caitlin O'Connor says: June 4th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    Awesome pics!

    Well worthy of Flacco’s “Tuesday. Two a.m.”

  2. Jennie says: June 4th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    Hi Ryno. LTNS but i do drop in now and then and read your latest blogs. Saw this clip on youtube and it made me thing of you, not sure why. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4
    Hope life is treating you fairly well all things considered.
    Jennie

  3. ryno says: June 4th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    G’day Jennie. A long time indeed!

    Thanks for the Choob thing. He’s a very interesting and different guitarist.

    I may get the email-writing skates on one of these days.

  4. Chris says: June 7th, 2008 at 5:53 am

    Ooooo… fun. :)

  5. Jennie says: June 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    Hi Ryno,
    Amendment to previous comment: thing = think.
    Re: the guitarist, I think it was his forearms that reminded me of you when you played. Things fairly good here, no complaints. Email if desired, no pressure.
    Say Hi to the Kev for me if you are in touch.
    Jen

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