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31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024

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This is like a denial of service attack against the stuff I had planned to cover later in the semester.

I really wish the administration would stop interfering with my elections course syllabus.

@MHowell the trick is arbitrage with the opposite hemisphere.

Reminder: Daylight saving time starts at 2am.

With markets down, this could be a particularly good time to invest that hour, but as always, consult a qualified time advisor.

My "normal" camera kit (a Phase One system) fits in a rolling Pelican-type case and weighs 35lbs (plus tripod). I try to travel with it if I think there's any chance I'll be able to do serious photography on a trip, but it's not always possible. My backup is a 2 or 3 lens Leica kit with a smallish travel tripod, all of which can be made to fit in my backpack along with a change of clothes, laptop, etc. That's what I had with me here. Better than nothing is way better than nothing.

This was an opportunistic capture from a hotel balcony, made with a small camera and 90mm lens. I made several exposures, waiting for good light, which came out briefly for this one.

The wrong gear is definitely better than nothing, but still not as good as the right gear. This is a perfectly acceptable image, but I can't look at it without wishing I had used a view camera, a higher resolution sensor, and a slightly longer lens. But if I had insisted on that, I'd have no image at all.

Marina, San Diego, CA, 2012.

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@quinn @cstross I've had titles slapped on stuff that invert the point the article is making.

@cstross I know (from chagrined experience) that authors have no control of the titles/headlines for newspaper and magazine articles, but I had no idea this was also the practice for books. That's even more nuts.

By the way, this photo really pushes the limits of what you can do with 35mm format lenses, but I leaned in to the limitations and it worked out OK. I ended up switching to the (medium format) Phase One system a few months later, which is much more flexible when you need view camera movements.

The Inquirer building also housed (until a few years before they moved) their printing plant, making it one of the last major dailies where it was at least theoretically possible for an editor to run downstairs and yell "stop the presses!" if a major story came in. But I'll bet that didn't actually happen very often.

This was captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shifting lens. There's a bit of barrel distortion from the lens, but I decided this image looked better less corrected.

The Inquirer building, completed in 1924, to me evokes a cigar-chomping editor who calls everyone "kid" and who says things like "bring me back a scoop".

The building had been vacant for a few years when this photo was made, the paper having moved to cheaper and leaner facilities. It has since been repurposed as police headquarters.

Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA, 2017.

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This is an IR photo, made in afternoon light with a 1000nm filter and the Phase One Achromatic back. 1000nm is a fairly long IR wavelength, rendering a soft, surreal look. (IR photos are usually captured around 750-800nm). I used the Rodenstock 50mm HR-Digaron, which leaves the moon small in the frame but still recognizable.

This is (of course) a nod to Ansel Adams' "Moonrise, Hernandez, NM". But Adams' 1941 photo was made just after sunset, in the visible spectrum. See https://www.moma.org/collection/works/53904

Urban Moonrise, 2020.

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@paul_ipv6 Ka-ching!

Yeah, no.

@kims The other loud and clear message is that the US can no longer be trusted to engage in good faith negotiation or diplomacy. We apparently now reserve the right to attack anyone, at any time.

@ncweaver.skerry-tech.com First we got the bomb and that was good,
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.

Then Russia got the bomb, but that's O.K.,
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way.

Who's next?