Isolation
I used this candlestick in a shot yesterday, and decided to light it up again for today’s theme at We’re Here!:
I live in Northern California within the very large area Pacific Gas & Electric decided to “shut down” this last week. I had just returned from a vacation out of state, and had only a 24-hour notice to scramble around and get ready for life without electricity for as long as a week.
It turned out I live in a pocket where the power stayed on, but the office where I work was down. Thankfully, the company has been doing practice “disaster recovery” drills for a couple of years now, so before the lights went out they switched our computer network over to generator power to preserve data integrity and permit automatic interfaces to continue. Those of us who still had power could log in from home and continue working. We were warned to stay off the roads, and an odd consequence of the disruption was that many internet destinations seemed to be “out of order” for me. I could work, but I could not play – especially on Flickr.
I really had cabin fever by the time it was all over. I was definitely in isolation.
I needed to take this photo where my table is and there are several windows nearby. My photo processing tools increased the darkness and emphasized the desired isolated light effect. Happy Sliders Sunday!
Isolation
I used this candlestick in a shot yesterday, and decided to light it up again for today’s theme at We’re Here!:
I live in Northern California within the very large area Pacific Gas & Electric decided to “shut down” this last week. I had just returned from a vacation out of state, and had only a 24-hour notice to scramble around and get ready for life without electricity for as long as a week.
It turned out I live in a pocket where the power stayed on, but the office where I work was down. Thankfully, the company has been doing practice “disaster recovery” drills for a couple of years now, so before the lights went out they switched our computer network over to generator power to preserve data integrity and permit automatic interfaces to continue. Those of us who still had power could log in from home and continue working. We were warned to stay off the roads, and an odd consequence of the disruption was that many internet destinations seemed to be “out of order” for me. I could work, but I could not play – especially on Flickr.
I really had cabin fever by the time it was all over. I was definitely in isolation.
I needed to take this photo where my table is and there are several windows nearby. My photo processing tools increased the darkness and emphasized the desired isolated light effect. Happy Sliders Sunday!