50% at 50%

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Near enough, anyway. We are at the halfway point of the year, and the moon's illumination is at 51% tonight. An interesting confluence, I thought.

Duck In Development

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Late, and a backup. The story of my life at the moment!

Playback Time

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I spent some time this evening reviewing the recording from the gig I did sound for the other night.
In hindsight, there wasn't enough bass guitar in the mix.
In my defence, I am "musically challenged", so while I'm very comfortable driving the technology side of things, I barely know a G sharp from a treble clef.
Most of my sound experience has been in recording spoken word and sound for video rather than live music PA.
More practice is required!

My camera has also started throwing errors again. How perverse of it. It must have heard the warranty expiring.

Thirty-Second Descent

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This one's my frankly rather indifferent submission for this week's 52Frames "Fluid" challenge. I am claiming the EC this time though, as I used an ND filter, which let me push the exposure time out to half a minute to blur the water.
I feel like I've run out of creative energy recently, probably due to the relentless stream of nonsense going on at work.
I'm hoping that this will go away soon, one way or another!

2025-06-28

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Late and a backup today.
I was out all afternoon and evening doing my soundman bit (The 2nd photo, after the jump, is a wonky snapshot from my phone).
The punters seemed to enjoy the show, so I'm calling that a win.

You Must Stop

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At least for a while.

I finally had a bit of success towards getting my little MR2 back on the road today with some help from my dad. After about two and a half years on jack stands, it's back on its wheels, and parked with the power of its own handbrake!

This shot's a revisit of one I took last year. I think it's a significant improvement - last year's shot is here

Portal

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A backup photo today.