Fun With Exposure
This picture looks more like a painting than a photo to me due to the high saturation from the overexposed image.

So I went a little overboard tonight — I managed to take something like 83 pictures in the course of about an hour. I was on a roll. Of those 83, I managed to upload to Flickr about 25. It’s a fairly good spread of items, and I had a lot of fun messing with camera settings this time.

This is probably one of my most favorite of the entire session. I haven’t quite pinned down why just yet, but I really like it. I will have to play more with the camera now that I figured out how to take some really decent looking pictures in lower light levels. This will come in handier as the evenings get longer (and as it gets darker earlier and earlier).

I also spent some time going around in the various groups I’ve joined on Flickr, spreading the fun. I didn’t really think I’d get into it, but it’s somewhat addictive. And it’s always changing. So that’s been kinda cool. I have noticed a significant increase in my photostream activity over the last few days…so even if I don’t get a lot of comments on pictures right now, there’s definitely been some traffic — which is cool.

In homeowner news, it turns out that we will indeed need to dig a new water line from the house to well. The investigative work provided little good news (aside from the fact that the existing line is plastic and not galvanized steel). So it looks like Thursday or Friday will be the day of fixing. It will be a welcome change to have proper water pressure again.

I came home from work a little early today and installed one of the three new replacement basement windows — this one was in the cistern. All told, it took about two hours to complete (which is kinda ridiculous considering its simplicity), but to be fair I had to wait for Kirstin to wake up before I could use the table saw to cut boards to length. So it really wouldn’t have taken that long, but it was better than dealing with CrabbyBaby(tm).

The new window looks and functions incredibly better than the old one. In fact, no comparison. I don’t know in actuality how much it’ll be used, but it keeps out critters and unfavorable weather, and that’s what’s important. So I need to pick up a few more 1×4’s (two, to be exact) so I can replace the other two windows and that project will be complete. I’m really pleased with how well the windows fit — they’re awfully snug, and will be perfect once caulked and sealed up. A quick coat of paint on the exposed wood (used for shims) and all will be well.

And that was basically my evening in general. Pretty unique and oddly productive.

So until next time…

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

–MZ