Hot Summer, Photography

Awareness of the outside world. Space.com: See 1st photos of the moon’s south pole by India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander, Pultarova, 23 Aug 2023.

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It’s Hot Out There
Central Alabama
Heat advisory
August 2023

What I Learned

How do you photograph heat? You can’t. You have to work indirectly.

Effects. Boiling water. Panting dog. Person wiping sweat from brow. Wilting plants.

Measurement. Mercury bar on a thermometer. Numbers on a digital thermometer. Colors on a weather map.

Associations. Desert sand. Beach. Palm tree.

Do I always know the subject? No. Some days I know what I’m looking for and I get it. Some days I spray and pray. Some days I am convinced the best way to look at the subject will be X, but the answer turns out to be Y. Often Y is a shot on which I took on a flyer. In this case, I have multiple images of a solo plant in a vertical orientation. Seemed the logical choice. Hence the meta pic. Once downloaded, the clear winner was many plants in a horizontal orientation, of which I have one exposure. Is still an exposure in digital photography?

Do I know what I’m doing? Meh. I was on f/5.6 due to light restrictions. No idea why a sunny day should have limited light. Possibly my nice, but moderate lens does not hold up to zooming. I had a similar issue photographing Coach Kate’s Derby. Given that I didn’t have much choice, I had the vague feeling that limited depth of field would not be bad in this case. [Tennessee Travels, Photography]

Success? Yes. Went somewhere. Found a suitable photo subject at home when I didn’t feel up to going anywhere. Did something. Check.

Technical Details

Stats. f/5.6.0, 1/125 sec., 48.0 mm, ISO 400. Manual.

Post production. Resize, border, and watermark.

Last Week [Coosa River at Gorman Park]

Onwards!
Katherine

Water Management, Dog Version

Awareness of the outside world. CSU: Birch sugar is the same thing as xylitol and it’s toxic to dogs. 2021.

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The dogs have established several routines concerning their water.

Plentiful

Jasmine doesn’t get around much. Therefore, she has one water dish near where she spends the day. Another near her night sleeping spot. And a third on the patio. Perhaps also a fourth dish closer to the front door if she is out for a sniff of air but doesn’t feel the need to go the entire 15 feet to the dog pen.

None of these are more than half full because …

Clean

Rose can drink without making a mess. Jas leaves behind both dirt and dog drool. Le ick. Waiter, fresh water, please!

Jas can have water that looks okay but if you change it, she’ll have a slurp.

Clean water? Fresh water? Cooler? Aerated from the faucet?

Who knows. She’s of an age that we want to encourage her to drink. So, we dump the water and bring new.

Personal

During the day, Rose prefers to drink at the night water spot. No idea why. She will bypass a fresh dish in the living room to trot the length of the hall to have a drink.

Jas has never been audibly grumpy about sharing, but there may be canine subtext that we don’t perceive.

Plus, Rose getting a bit of exercise up and down the hall is not the worst outcome

Outro

Yes, we are dog minions. Your point?

Dog posts [Archives]

Onwards!
Katherine

I Call This, ‘Nature Will Prevail, Eventually’

Another one from the vaults. Although I feel much better, I have the resilience of a wet Twinkie.

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Seen during walks.

Cahaba Heights Park [Places and Parks II]

Defunct Zaxby’s [Places and Parks I]

Railroad Park [Not Running The Not Tunnel, Walk Report, Virtual Lincoln Tunnel Challenge 5K]

Onwards!
Katherine

In It For The Bling, Dog Show Ribbons

Awareness of the outside world. None at the moment. After two weeks of over-reactive stressing, I spent last weekend in the lovely land of digestive upset. So, a cheerful one from the reserve pile until brain back online. If the chronology seems out of order, Monday’s post was scheduled on Friday. Guts were good then.

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Any one have a guess what the second green ribbons are for?

Still taken with the idea of towels as prizes. [April 2016]

The Borzoi folks know how to do it.

Blurry, but so much pretty.

The supervisors.

Previous Horse showed with a red ribbon in his tail. I would so have used this.

Taken during a photo exercise in April 2023. [At The Dog Show, Photography]

Onwards!
Katherine

I Remembered!

Awareness of the Outside World. Asian American Journalists Association: ʻAhahui Haku Moʻolelo (Hawaiian Journalists Association) and AAJA-Hawaiʻi encourage sensitivity and precision in reporting on the devastating Lāhainā wildfire, by Yi-Shen Loo, . Hat tip to G. Not my G. I mean G-who-is-a-linguist.

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A while back, the feed store started closing in Wednesday afternoons.

1 year ago? 2 years? 5? Whenever.

I can’t tell you the number of times that I pulled into the lot, saw the closed gate, and thought ‘Shit, it’s Wednesday!’

Last week we needed hay.

I managed to remember that it was Wednesday!

Before noon!

It’s a small thing, but one I am pleased about.

Onwards!
Katherine