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December 7, 2004
The Metapost and Some Photography (a Holidailies beginning)
It's time again for my beloved Jette's Holidailies challenge, meaning I've got a month of trying to find something interesting to write about from day to day. Last year's Holidailies went really well. Claudia and I went on a road trip with a laptop, and I posted updates from the road. Yeah, that was cool... it's easy to post daily when you've got something to write about.
This year, I've got no interesting plans, really. Claudia's off in Romania, doing research and playing in the snow or something. I work a lot and never get much done. It gets dark at 5:15 every single evening. I made it a policy years ago not to write about work -- it could (theoretically) get me into trouble, and anyway, it isn't really all that interesting. So until Christmas eve, there'll be no work talk, not much play talk, and no Claudia talk, which leaves me with, what, photography and introspection?
It's not a challenge for nothing, right?
I've got some fairly exciting news to share (well, exciting to me, anyway), but I'm afraid of running out of things to talk about before the week is up, so I'll put that off until next time. This time, I'll show off a recent photo, instead.
One of the big limitations to the dark coming so early has been finding time to take pictures outside of work hours. A logical solution to this problem, of course, would be for me to start getting to work early some days, so that I could leave early and have more daylight at my disposal. I disapprove of that solution. Instead, I've been looking for ways to practice photography at night. I took this photo last night, at one of the houses on 37th, which have their lights up in typical beautiful gaudy display. It's a long exposure of a spinning light-wrapped fixture. It looks like a coiled spool of titanium to me, but I love the luminescence of it.
Posted by Rachel at December 7, 2004 9:09 PM
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It's beautiful!
Posted by: Meg at December 7, 2004 10:11 PM
Yay, you're back! This is exactly why I love organizing Holidailies every year.
Posted by: jette at December 7, 2004 11:05 PM
Howdy! Long time, no see. I love your photography and a pic a day will do me fine! Holidalies is fun, huh? Let's hope I keep my solemn oath. I'd keep sharing here, but then I wouldn't be able to post it on my site, and I, too, amd oging to run out of things to say.
Posted by: timbrat at December 7, 2004 11:40 PM
Beautiful photo -- I'm glad you're doing Holidailies, now just to get caught up with you!
Posted by: Dreama at December 18, 2004 10:19 PM