Saturday

Descriptive Text

Life and the tool we use to measure it, time, become surreal when it's broken down into basic components and viewed under a microscope. Yesterday I had hoped for stormy weather today but it ended up being a mostly sunny Florida day, save for a few afternoon/evening clouds. Back to the time thing. As I thought about the shot frequency I wanted to use, I had to break down the day into hours, minutes, seconds. Basic, yes, but have you ever really broken your day down to the basic components? If so then you may have also realized how short life truly is. Now, I'm not going to lecture you on appreciating every waking moment because I could rightly be called a hypocrite. It's just an amazing thing to see the day melt away and to think what we could've done with our time and wonder if we should have.

 

I'm very much looking forward to cooler weather. I had planned a few photos today but the sun/heat is one of my biggest de-motivators. Many Floridians are quick to point out that winter/snow make many states partly inhabitable, but since summer is so long and intense in Florida, it's often difficult to get much done during the chunk of the day. This is my long-winded way of saying that once the weather mellows I'm going to get stupid outside with the camera.

 

Photo Info

Nikon D70 tethered to laptop (peecee running Vista) running Nikon Camera Control Pro. f/8 in Aperture Priority, ISO 200, 1 shot every 10 seconds. Imorted image sequence into Quicktime, 3.5GB file saved in .mov format, also exported as 30mb .m4v. .m4v file imported into iMovie, music added and exported to a web-friendly size. Music is track 24 from the Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts I-IV. Video clipped by Flickr video length limit. I'll upload the full video somewhere else.

 

Music

NPR Fresh Air podcast

 

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