Daily Photo - Nov. 16-30
For 2020, I am photographing every day, and posting the best of each day in half-month increments.
2020 November 16, Monday
I figured it was time again for some star trails. Now that I know my camera better, I feel I was able to get an improved shot over the one I took back in May.
Olympus E-PL9: f4.1, bulb exposure, ISO 800, -0.3 EV
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 17, Tuesday
Birds are usually quite picky with their plumage... This one seems content with a more frumpy look.
Olympus E-PL9: f6.3, 1/1600 sec, ISO 2000
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 18, Wednesday
This set of foodstuff jars were in my house when I bought it. I sometimes wonder what history they've collected in the years they've sat quietly in the corner of the kitchen.
Olympus E-PL9: f5.4, 1/50 sec, ISO 6400
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 19, Thursday
Is it a table, or the Space Needle? Depending on whether you view the item or its shadow, you might come to a different conclusion!
Olympus E-PL9: f5.6, 1/400 sec, ISO 200
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 20, Friday
This picture may not have much photographic merit, but I figured I should record it as an event in my life. What you see is my page on a website called Itch, where I posted my first videogame. My sister has been encouraging me to try programming, and this is my preliminary result. My niece loves playing it, so that's a big win for me. For the background of the page I used the star trail photo I took in May. I think its sparse and faint lines make for a good background.
Olympus E-PL9: f5, 1/20 sec, ISO 6400
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 21, Saturday
The Covid-19 pandemic has many people looking out the same window every day. That doesn't mean, however, that the view never changes. Note here a large tree trunk, freshly fetched up from who-knows-where.
Olympus E-PL9: f6.3, 1/1000 sec, ISO 320
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 22, Sunday
The device you see on the table is my brother's "hard drive toaster". We call it that because it looks like a bread toaster. In reality, it is a hard drive dock, which allows one to read hard drives like the old floppy disks of my youth. Thanks to my brother lending me his toaster, I was able to recover the data I feared lost when my old computer died.
Olympus E-PL9: f4.7, 1/40 sec, ISO 6400
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 23, Monday
This is the piece of potash I keep as a memento of my sister's wedding; it was part of a table centrepiece. Did you know that the name potash comes from "pot ash"? Before it was mined, people manufactured the salt from the ashes of plant fibres. It's also the origin of the word, potassium.
Olympus E-PL9: f6.1, 1/50 sec, ISO 6400
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 24, Tuesday
While I was in Montréal I loved riding the Métro so much, I bought an Opus Card. I kept it in this special wallet, which I bought from the transit operator, STM. It features a system map, a handy reference to have in one's pocket!
Olympus E-PL9: f5.8, 1/20 sec, ISO 6400
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 25, Wednesday
I do think this is not the same drift-log that I'd seen earlier in the month... Perhaps I should become a beachcomber!
Olympus E-PL9: f6.3, 1/400 sec, ISO 200
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 26, Thursday
Fog is definitely my favourite weather. It adds such an air of intrigue!
Olympus E-PL9: f6.3, 1/640 sec, ISO 1250
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 27, Friday
These are popularly known as burdocks, but in my family we call the Spiekii-plants. The name originally comes from 'spiky' but refers to a character, Kies Spiekii. He (as played by a burr) was the pilot of a toy spaceship I had. Fast forward thirty years, and now that same character - albeit without his spaceship and in a more human form - features in a novel I wrote last year.
Olympus E-PL9: f5.1, 1/250 sec, ISO 200
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 28, Saturday
Not to drill the point, but these are bits. I find it interesting how much they resemble organ pipes.
Olympus E-PL9: f5.6, 1/160 sec, ISO 6400
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 29, Sunday
After a few calm days, the water was slightly choppy. I decided it would be good to snap a bit of the waves breaking against that washed-up tree.
Olympus E-PL9: f7.1, 1/500 sec, ISO 200
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 November 30, Monday
A sure sign of the season shifting is a coat of morning frost! On the whole, though, November was incredibly warm compared to the historical average.
