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«Toujours remettre à demain ce que, demain, on pourrait remettre à … disons, l'année prochaine. ». Terry Pratchett
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Copyright Susan Ogden
1.} i am tired.
2.) i am not in the mood to wrap anything....even tho here are a bazillion Bean things to wrap.
3.) The Beans were here for almost 3 hours this morning, even tho they were SUPPOSED to be here an HOUR....so i had to rearrange my whole morning and ran out of steam.
4.) There are still things arriving via UPS and Fed-Ex and i have not a clue what else i ordered that has not yet arrived...
5.) it is yet ANOTHER rainy gray day and that causes me a flare up of S.A.D and i NEED sun.
6.) I used up most of my morning energy taking a shower, feeding the Beans breakfast and supervising them and then when their dad stopped in for lunch i quick made an escape to the Post Office to mail my daughter and her boyfriends gifts.....yes, i know they will not get to Manassas on time.....sigh....
7.) i have a print to do up and frame for someone....not a gift....a prize for being the 100th like on my boutique FB page. Bless Unique Photo for shipping me ink yesterday that arrived today :)
8.) i had to clean out my closet and organize all the stuff for charity to a local church....then photograph it, for tax deducition purposes. Done!
9.) Had to take apart and redo the beautiful centerpiece that was a gift from my cleaning girl....it was shedding blue spruce like whoa! ( I went out in the rain and clipped a bunch of different evergreens and holly and dismantled it and redid it for the dining room table. tick this off the list!)
10.) it is 4:30pm and i have no idea what i am making for dinner...but the way i feel it might be oatmeal!
11.) oh yeah....i have had to reset the internet 3X today and am about to give Comcast a piece of my mind....they are the pits lately, as this is becoming a daily challenge.
On a brighter note...the tree is done. The house is about 75 percent back to normal. I am not cooking for Christmas....FINALLY!!! . My daughter and Luke ARE coming....late Christmas Day. YAY!! Christmas day will be blissfully quiet with my middle daughter cooking dinner. The better part of the day will be spent quietly in my pajamas with a good book with any luck! Double YAY!
On a less joyful note, the annual Christmas Gathering will happen on Saturday. These take so much out of me...my recovery time is getting longer and longer with each one. i am not built for turmoil and noise. i am not built for kids running amuck in my house....breaking things and screaming, or party games. The debate raging in my head at the moment is what time to have this gathering, that the least amount of time possible is spent having to open gifts, entertain, referee, eat, play the silly game that is planned by Crazy Aunt Sandy, clean up, and retreat to my bubble for recovery time. Would it be rude to say 5 to 7 pm?!!? Yeah....i thought so. :-/
I actually told my husband not to get me anything and i will not get him anything. It is so pointless. There is nothing to get him....he has no hobbies....he has no friends to have a hobby with...he used to golf but has not done that in a couple years. All he ever does is work...and when he needs things for work, he mentions it in the 3 weeks leading to Christmas and then suddenly goes out and buys it all. pointless. Sigh.....
Happy Night Before the Night Before Christmas :)
This picture comes from a friend asking me to make a shot with "procrastination" as theme: this is what came out, I hope you can appreciate it.
I decided to try to upload some pictures taken with my mobile phone (Sony Xperia Z1) I already had on Instagram: I was basically having fun looking at what I could do with more technical limitations.
Some of the things I got up to when I ran out of inspiration for the project that actually NEEDS doing.
Lavender heart sachets that I was suppose to deliver to a shop last week. I found every reason possible to not work on them. It's midnight and I just got home from work. Guess what I have to do before I get to go to bed. The price of procrastination.... ugh.
It is a lifestyle. I spent most of my afternoon and well into the night obscessing over a small problem I needed to fix. I took my camera out early this afternoon but had a dog with me so she occupied the seat my camera likes. Tonight when I went out a second time I forgot it. as the last seconds ticked down to midnight I paniced and had to shoot something for the challenge and my 365. So here it is captured seconds before midnight. Thank goodness for fast flashes for I am often under the gun.
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I could clean my bedroom, or I could take selfies sitting in my bathroom sink. Hmmmm
Damien Jurado - Ohio (Filous Remix)
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I drive by this little log cabin in the quakies, close to the Idaho Montana border, every time I drive to Yellowstone. For years and years as I drive by I always think about stopping and capturing this spot, but it seems I can always find a reason to push North up the road. Now that the roof has collapsed, I've finally gotten around to making this simple stop... I think there is a word for that!
Procrastinated today's shot again. AND my camera's battery died so I had to recharge. Maybe that's a good thing. I had time to get some inspiration.
Anyway, I sort of like this photo. It's pretty daring for me. And I look exhausted....this is what happens when you procrastinate your photos every day...haha. :]
I wanted to thank everyone for your overwhelming support during this 365. Anyone who has commented or favorited a photo....it is so appreciated, you have no idea...I love you all.
I'm supposed to be doing yardwork. Instead, I'm taking pictures of the yardwork.
Explore #97 - March 28, 2009
Day 60 - 15 February 2012
It is a fine art form, not many can do. There is discipline involved and perseverance. It does not lie in just anyone's bones to twiddle thumbs, or wood - or hair. Some motivation is required to, to make you want to do it. Pep talks, and a few hours of surfing the web. Ah yes, a true Procrastinator must practice to reach excellence.
Canon EOs 550D
f/5
1/40 sec
ISO 800
'Never put off until tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.'
--Mark Twain, who totally rocks.
I shot this Klein bottle in a dark room, and illuminated it using a red laser pointer.
The Klein bottle has a little water inside (i.e. outside). View On Black
A mathematician named Klein
Thought the Möbius band was divine.
Said he: «If you glue
The edges of two,
You'll get a weird bottle like mine.»
Explored #139 on Dec 15, 2007
I totally didn't procrastinate processing this thing, and it's just *pure coincidence* that I finally took a stab at it in October...
In hindsight, this really could've used another night of data (particularly the L), but I only had one clear night at the dark site. I was just happy to get out of the light pollution and shoot a dark nebula for once! Captured on August 17th, 2025 from a bortle 3 zone (deerlick astronomy village).
**Places where I host my other images:**
[Flickr](www.flickr.com/people/leftysastrophotography/) | [Pixelfed](pixelfed.art/lefty)
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**[Equipment:](i.imgur.com/BsmkAmF.jpeg)**
* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
* Orion Sirius EQ-G
* ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
* Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
* ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
* Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm
* Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm
* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
* ZWO ASI-290mc for guiding
* Moonlite Autofocuser
**Acquisition:** 7 hours 21 minutes (Camera at -15°C), half unity gain
* L - 56x180"
* R - 30x180"
* G - 30x180"
* B - 31x180"
* Darks- 30
* Flats- 30 per filter
**Capture Software:**
* Captured using [N.I.N.A.](nighttime-imaging.eu/) and PHD2 for guiding and dithering.
**PixInsight Preprocessing:**
* BatchPreProcessing
* StarAlignment
* Blink
* ImageIntegration per channel
* DrizzleIntegration (2x, Var β=1.5)
> For the L channel I did 3 stacks each with 1/3rd of the data, then combined them to an RGB image (was still grayscale) to use deepSNR noise reduction. after this it was properly converted to mono
* Dynamic Crop
* MultiscaleGradientCorrection
> First time trying out the [MARS thing in pixinsight](pixinsight.com/mars/). It seems to work very well
**Luminance Linear:**
* BlurXterminator
* Stars removed with starx
* ArcsinhStretch + HistogramTransformation to stretch nonlinear
**RGB Linear:**
* ChannelCombination to combine monochrome R G and B images in to single color image
* MultiscaleGradient Correction
* SpectrophotometricColorCalibration
* BlurXterminator (correct stars only)
* HSV Repair
* Extracted stars with starXterminator, to be used later for [independent starless processing](www.nightphotons.com/guides/star-addition/)
* ArcsinhStretch + HistogramTransformation to stretch nonlinear
* Slight saturation curve boost
** Stars only processing:**
* ArcsinhStretch + HistogramTransformation to stretch nonlinear
* Slight SCNR to remove greens and magentas
* Curves to boost saturation
**Nonlinear Processing:**
* LRGBCombination to combine stretched RGB and L images
* DeepSNR Noise reduction
* Several rounds of curve adjustments for lightness, contrast, saturation, color balance, with various masks
* LocalHistogramEqualization
* More curves
* Pixelmath to add in the stretched RGB stars only image from earlier
> This basically re-linearizes the two images, adds them together, and then stretches them back to before. [More info on it here](www.nightphotons.com/guides/star-addition))
> mtf(.005,
> mtf(.995,Stars)+
> mtf(.995,Starless))
* BlurX to sharpen the stars a little
* Even more curves
* Slight SCNR
* Resample to 70%
* Tighter crop in on just the nebula
* Annotation
The usual messy book shelves. I am trying to rearrange them - but usually end up looking at the books instead. Great excuse for procrastination = as if I ever needed that.
My "lego" block Nikon F is put aside for the moment as we have had visits from small kids and expect another in a couple of weeks. Would be too tempting for a 6 year old.
I now have 16 days before I have to deliver my thesis. The end of five years at the university is closing waay too fast.
"The Procrastinator's Hereafter. Take a friend's advice: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today--Answer that letter." Sign: "Bottomless Pit Drop In."
Pity the poor procrastinator who doesn't answer his letters! This pathetic fellow obviously failed to keep up with his correspondence while he was alive, and now in the "hereafter" the devil is looking over his shoulder to make sure he responds on time--and for all time!
In order to avoid falling into the fiery "Bottomless Pit" below, the procrastinator is precariously perched on an endless roll of paper as he scribbles out his message. The last few lines he's written on the paper suggest that he's trying to explain away his current predicament: "...in my new home. Although everything is up to sample, I'm not stuck on the place but circumstances over which I have no control impel me to stick...."
Reverse of postcard:
Postmarked: "Hartford, Conn., Aug. 25, 1912."
Addressed to: "Mr. W. J. Ross, 131 River St., N. Adams, Mass."
Handwritten message: "Dear Will: What do you think of this for a card? I don't hear from Flora very often. I'm working and not having much fun either--just existing. Not as tired as when I came here. Hastily, Cora."
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Originally posted on Ipernity: The Procrastinator's Hereafter.
See also Crafty Dogma's copy of this postcard: The procrastinator's hereafter.
I'm curious how much others procrastinate over shots they put up?
I seem to be getting worse as time goes by - previously I'd just post any old thing but now I worry about them tooooo much I think. Maybe I should just chuck em out there and leave it to people to view them ? Anyone got any thoughts on this ?
taken August 06 in County Cork.
and best viewed large imho!
no photoshop on the colours at all :-)
only cropped to get rid of nasty telephone wires at the top and crappy bushes that served no purpose in the photo at the bottom !
oh and this was a full on zoom of the same scene.