Misadventures at 720nm

Thanks go out to Mariah for posting these.

Jackie, thank you for the photographs! I stole them without permission.

I’m going to get yelled at for the first photograph. My mum has this almost-magical ability to flinch, scowl and project distaste when she comes into the field of a view of a camera. Doesn’t matter none if you’re using a fisheye or 50 metres down the down the road peeping through a long telephoto. She will know.

But it stuck me very poignantly tonight:

I had this whole big rant written up about father’s day, my place in it, and my wife’s place in my place in it. It was long, bitter and ultimately pointless. Ranting feels good for a few hours, but it is pretty pointless when the person it is aimed at wouldn’t know compromise or reason if it snuck up and bit her on the arse. So instead, below, there are two photographs of my wonderful, awesome children. I <3 you guys.

I am totally fecked tired. I started work on updating old side content at 11am yesterday. It involves moving to the next page (/page/2/, /page/3/ and so on) checking all the links work, all the images are formatted correctly and generating thumbnails for the new theme. With a few breaks tossed in I made it as far as page 33 before exhaustion overcame me. On top of that I vacuum cleaned the house, refilled the dishwasher, cleaned the counters, fed the cats (three times), went for a walk, went into Galway with my sister to see my mum, and did a ton of laundry. The unquestionable high-point of my day was listening to a birthday greeting from my little girl, courtesy of my wife.

Some birthday. :)

In the meanwhile I’ve had the camera set up outside taking 30 and 60-minute exposure star trails. It is an act of pure laziness on my part because I can walk inside, go back to work on the computer, come back at the specified time, swap out memory cards and come back inside to keep working in here.