M!A:
Location: Midnight City
Eight of my favorites reflections, mostly shot in 2011. I feel the series was complete around the end of summer, but I keep on shooting those upside down reflections. I just love it.
They’re all untouched, except the 5th one (but it’s still a very light cropping). I shoot it as I frame it, cropped a lot, they wouldn’t make sense. It’s about seeing the reality the other way round on purpose. It’s not about shooting blind before cropping a lot.
Anyway, it’s fun trying because it’s challenging to frame something upside down while you focus “upside up” - you have to try to see what I mean.
For those who wonder, there’s not much editing in it either, with strong contrast lenses, a bit of saturation, the occasional weirdness of the Leica M8 sensor and you’re good to go.
I post those eight because they work well together. I avoided posting wide and b&w ones for the sake of consistency. May be I’ll post a b&w one soon.
I don’t have a lot of time right now, but I have lots of stuff to post and write about. I was foolish enough to buy a M Monochrom and boy it’s quite a body. Not for everyone, for sure, but quite spectacular, imho. I’ll post a quick hands on and a few pics this week. For those who don’t work this week-end, enjoy. For those who work, like me: courage! :-)
(via tiktiktikboom)
Dersites are not as prone to alcoholism as Prospitians.
On Derse, clean water is not the problem, but abundant, unfrozen water is. That, and shipping any goods such as grapes or fresh corn from Prospit was highly impractical, so what better form to ship it in than one that would only get better in transit? There was no legal drinking age on Derse, and alcohol was just a thing that was available. There honestly was no glamour to it, it was pretty much just a drink. It was not romanticized, but just a fixture on the table. Narcotics, however, were a more widely available vice, and the hallucinations they incurred were believed to assist in the practice of Shadow magics.
Prospitians, on the other hand, had a reason to drink in excess: the benefits inebriation offered to Imaginative abilities. A drinking age was imposed on Prospit, though it was largely ignored, save for in the capitol. But while Prospitians were more likely to overindulge in alcohol, they were less likely to abuse narcotics (available in the few lichens and scrubby plants that grew in Dersite soil).
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Nn, a storm.
It is fine.
No.