Fall Has Arrived

This week, things came to a halt when I suffered a hard drive crash on my laptop. While I lost some (sentimentally) valuable documents, I had the good sense to back up nearly all of my 2019 and 2020 images. Unfortunately, I forgot to include some of my 2021 assignments, as few as they were, so I live in fear that somebody will need an image taken in February, incorrectly assuming that my organized persona is based on reality. I'm a slob. Ask any of my friends.

The closeup of the water droplets was taken on my early morning walk. I'm always surprised when I encounter evidence of water in our drought-parched state. The shot proved itself a real challenge due to the short shooting distance and the nature of shooting with a manual focus lens. Try as I did, I couldn't hold still long enough to insure that my plane of focus was exactly where I wanted it. Image after image proved less than critically sharp, so in desperation, I put the camera on 6 frames per second Continuous Exposure Mode, and fired a six-shot burst. In post processing, I magnified each image and chose the one I deemed sharpest. Not the greatest image I've ever made, but sharp enough for an $80.00 Chinese lens.

I'm always on the lookout for some odd reflection, and while this one, a rear view mirror of a scooter, shows a street sign restricting left turns on one of San Francisco's narrow streets. I thought it might be interesting to reverse the image so the reflection would be properly rendered. I find the image amusing, but not enough to hold my attention for long.

Welcome to  Autumn.