Nothing tests your long exposure technique quite like shooting stars through a 500mm mirror lens. I should have been using a remote and mirror lock. 1 sec at 3200iso, f/6.3 (for the curious). Click the photo to see it larger. <div class=”center”> <a href=”https://images.matt.pictures/pleiades_and_venus_up_close/698/0001.jpg”><img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/pleiades_and_venus_up_close/698/0001.jpg’ /></a> </div>
Posted by matt on 2012-04-08T21:50:20Z GMT
So last sunday, there was brunch and basketball watching at BBell’s house, and the dudes got inspired to go play a little pickup game in the alley, shirts vs. skins. I think skins won by 7 points. Then they realized due to the location of the basket relative to a certain ledge that they could all dunk. So that happened. Today I’m working, and then I’ma ride my bike later. Fun and adventure and really wild things. I see this post and the last post and I marveled at the fact that all those pictures happened in the same world. It’s no surprise, reflecting on this, that people get lost going from one place to another. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/pickup_game/699/0001.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/pickup_game/699/0002.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/pickup_game/699/0003.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/pickup_game/699/0004.jpg’> </div>
Posted by matt on 2012-04-08T20:50:20Z GMT
This was the first time I’ve been to San Francisco (since my first visit to the city back in high school) that I’ve felt like I got anything approaching an understanding with the city. The scale of it always threw me off in the past, for some reason. There was a mental parallax, if you will, between what I was expecting and what I was seeing. I think I’ve got a better alignment now. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/sf_scenes_(in_the_city)/700/0013.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/sf_scenes_(in_the_city)/700/0016.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/sf_scenes_(in_the_city)/700/0017.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/sf_scenes_(in_the_city)/700/0021.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/sf_scenes_(in_the_city)/700/0022.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2012-04-05T15:51:20Z GMT
Because I don’t want to go on ad nauseum about the meetup, I’m just gonna lump together things in two more posts. The people and the scenes- if I’d been doing this chronologically as I went, it wouldn’t be so bad, but now after the end it’s time to post and move on. So, they took us bowling wednesday, and it was pretty fun, despite the fact that I got the lowest score both times (bowling is not my sport). There was some fairly memorable sushi thursday, as well- 18 of us packed in to a restaurant smaller than my home office, with seating for 16. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_rest_of_the_week_(in_people)/701/0009.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_rest_of_the_week_(in_people)/701/0010.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_rest_of_the_week_(in_people)/701/0011.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_rest_of_the_week_(in_people)/701/0012.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_rest_of_the_week_(in_people)/701/0014.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_rest_of_the_week_(in_people)/701/0023.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_rest_of_the_week_(in_people)/701/0024.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2012-04-05T15:39:20Z GMT
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