Reversive(c).

I am blogging to cure the fever. Well, I'm actually just stuck waiting for my sister to come home with the flu pills she took with her to work. I need them. I'm getting a tad ill, O.o... This all seems funny to me, as I predicted something of this sort would occur.

You see, I have had a most exuberant weekend because a few things, namely: Shooting for Rifflandia and assisting on an engagement shoot, meeting some extraordinary personalities and doing so many things that my sleeping pattern is now disrupted. As for Rifflandia, I will do a detailed post on the subject as I enjoyed it tonnes, BUT, I do not yet have a copy of Adobe's, "Lightroom 3." So I don't want to upload some pictures before they have been sorted, scrutinized and edited. Oh, back to my "Seeingness," I saw a downturn in all of this, as this is the nature of the universe. You can never be so high without a little low. We'll see how this flu develops.

Coming to you from this fever of mine is something of reversive (c), inversive and subversive nature. Let me elaborate.

Reversive: Osawa f/4.5 80-200mm lens. (at 80mm wide open) I held this lens towards the lens attached to my Canon 50D - in a reversive manner, of course.

Inversive: Inverse to the Osawa was my Canon 50mm f/1.4 (at 50mm ((DUH)) wide open).

Subversive: (I'll get to that later).

So maybe it's the fever - or sleep deprivation, or an amalgamation of various other factors including the before said contributors - but I found this really interesting. Although not super-sharp, and under sub-par light, this is a picture I took:

I like what the Osawa lens has done to this, vignetting wise, and MACRO wise. I could get in even closer with my Vivitar 28-90mm f2.8-3.5, but I don't feel like posting something that cool just yet. I want to get some better lighting and a little more structure to the shot. As this picture was shot, I was holding the lenses together with one hand, the other on the shutter, and moving the camera body towards and away from the subject - talk about manual focusing. For lighting, my iPod was on the flashlight app balancing with one end jabbed between the two last rows of keys on the keyboard, and a polaroid picture acting as a flimsy "pillar" holding up the iPod and angling it towards the fn key.

This was a fun shot.

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Weather Proofing.

Not much to say here, but that my shoes are not weather proof to rain; however, my camera seems to be. It never rained much today at the Site C rally - about a dam which the BC government wants to build on Peace River (to power 500 homes in california) - but then again, does it ever rain much in Victoria? Unfortunately not. I've found a couple of instances where the rain has been just hard enough to pitter-patter on the window - and I could only hear it if everyone in the house was completely quiet.

Where are the rolling thunderstorms?! Apparently this never happens here. I miss lazing under a corrugated roof listening to the torrential bursts of atomic cumulonimbus clouds above... and falling asleep. Feel the movement of air particles from lightning strikes 25 kilometres away - measured by seconds in delay.

As for static discharge?

I need a little electricity.

Not a picture of David Suzuki. He didn't pitch. O.o

Long time Since.

It has been a long time since, for many things. Other than these things, which I don't really need to go into, it's been a long time since my last blog post. It has only really been a month and 5 days or so, but it feels like that amount of time was really much longer, despite days going faster than normal lately. Much has happened in life since Logan's Pub. Much good, much bad - can we ever have everything?

It's raining outside and I'm in a bit of a thoughtful mood. Wow, I can be cryptic sometimes. In fact, that's what the majority of my comments are. Crypticism... Is that a word? No. My iPod tells me it is Cryptical.

You make of it what you make of it. Quick updates: I have started buying my gear that I need to head into photography as a career. I ferried over to vancouver to pick up a sweet second hand deal on a 50D. Looks like I'm a Canon freak now. Hey, they offered me the better package at the time I needed it - well, a Mr Tai did, from Vancouver.

I'm currently shooting as much as I can, when I can. There are still many steps ahead of me before I step into photography as a full time career, but I will take them as I can, when I can. Soon I may start a new blog dedicated entirely to photography.

I found this bird in a parking lot. I had just turned my camera on with a memory card for the first time. Next time I go looking for birds, it will be in parking lots. Birds here seem to have the coolest attitude.