Monday, October 3, 2016

Nesting in the emptiness of the blade

The photographs were taken in Helsinki on September 4th.

I have taken over 9000 photographs with my second LX100, and so far there hasn't appeared any dust inside the camera. I have avoided unnecessary on-off cycles of the camera, keeping it on all the time when I'm taking photographs. The battery lasts almost two hours, so I usually need just one spare battery when I go for a walk.

(Posting title is from the poem Oration: Half-Moon in Vermont by Norman Dubie.)

Sunday, October 2, 2016

We hadn’t named it, the ministry of fear

The photographs were taken in Helsinki on September 4th.

This morning there was frost on the ground in open places. Nights are getting to be cold.

Yesterday I wrote that Aperture seems to be working on macOS Sierra, but it isn't quite so. I realized that importing photographs doesn't work right, only a small portion of the photographs are being imported. I had reformatted the memory card, but luckily a media recovery program managed to retrieve almost all of the photographs from the card, so my photographs of autumn colors were not lost. Apparently one needs to be quite careful when using Aperture. Maybe I should check whether Photos has grown into a suitable program, or try Lightroom.

(Posting title is from the poem Singing School by Seamus Heaney.)

Saturday, October 1, 2016

And the street becomes a shell

The photographs were taken in Helsinki on September 4th.

This morning I walked for 1 1/2 hours taking photographs of autumn colors. Yesterday I updated the iMac to macOS Sierra. It seems that Aperture continues to work in Sierra, even though there are some slight nuisances. I have got used to Aperture, and switching to another program would be quite a hurdle.

(Posting title is from the poem Girl on a Bicycle by Troy Garrison.)