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Asheville CLicKs See the scenes I've seen. Photo essays by C.L. Kunst Downy or Hairy?I can never seem to keep the two straight. But I've been known to do that to cousins who look too much like too so.... The upside down LBB (Little Brown Bird) is a Carolina Wren and they love to nest for winter in the rafters of our garage and greenhouse.
Big Gear at the Grist Mill, Haywood Community CollegeThe big question is always, what do I want to look at? Today it was this. I took a break to look at the grist mill built by students at the Haywood Community College Campus.
Scraped Not ScrappedA detail image of scraped paint on a "vintage" Mountain Xpress box that sustained scouring and damage during the flooding of Marshall, NC during Hurrincane Helene. The box had been in front of the Zuma Coffe location on Main Street for as long as folks could remember. When Hurricane Helene forced him to relocate to a food truck to continue business he took the newspaper boxes with him. When I came by today to pick it up for repair/replacement this morning The owner, Joel Friedman said 'Just clean it up, make sure it doesn't leak and bring it back; it's a part of town History now."
Will do sir.
Tunnel VisionSIllusions and lighting effects go hand in hand. I got a new toy to try out today from Curio Toy Store in downtown. A Wandini, basically an LED light stick with different light cycles. It's a "magic" juggling toy in the same vein as LED Poi balls. I will have more fun practicing some of these moves once Spring rolls around, but on this frigid and blustery night, I just wanted to try it out with a long exposure on the table in the Light Lab. This set up is pretty basic; camera mounted on the tripod and focused down the good old shiny tube with a hot plate at the back for zazzy reflections. The first one is just ambient reflection down the tube. The look is pretty clean but boring. In the 2nd shot I interrupt the lens with the stick but the focus it off and it looks smeary where I'm hoping for strings. The 3rd shot is with a laser that is really, really, really too bright for this kind of thing but I just had to try. Basically it just made everything sizzle but again no lines. Probably have to try to run it around and get further away from the mount to get that effect. Practice, practice. That's what it's all about.
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