October is my all time favourite month. Well, it was, anyway: The sweets are excellent, there’s an almost obligatory dress-up day, and everything is a little bit spooky (which totally appeases my inner 14-year-old-goth). Not to mention the weather goes from being hot and sticky and bad and wrong to just the right side of too cold, and all the leaves turn colours. Scarves! You get to start wearing scarves, gloves, hats and big chunky coats/cloaks, and you can wander about wearing these things, and taking pictures of the really early twilight, and the sparkly lights as the city turns itself on for another evening.
This is at the cost of good quality natural daylight, though. I need that daylight to take pictures of the things I’ve made, since I don’t have any fancy studio lighting, nor the software to process my digital images so that it looks like I did. With that in mind, theoretical readers, I present you with the following Things Which I Have Made (and will soon be selling on Etsy).
In other news: last night, Miss K and I went for a drive (ostensibly, to find Ikea, but also to take pictures of pretty lights. I did some more experimenting with bokeh, and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/little-who/4051272756/ is what I came up with. Those cards, and prints of some of my recent pictures will soon be available in my etsy shop.
Also: hello to my influx of readers from The Fluent Self : )
This is why I keep ranting about daylight saving time being the wrong way round… If we put “the time when the sun is highest” (previously known as noon) at about 4pm then we’d get daylight distributed much more usefully (at least for office workers like myself).
Even in the middle of winter, it would stay light ’til about 9 or 10pm, allowing you to do stuff outside, and y’know, see the sun occasionally, and, granted, it’d be dark when you got up and drove to work, but at the moment, it’s dark when I leave work and by the middle of winter it’ll be dark when I go to work as well, with the end result being that I only see the sun at weekends.
I guess people who work outside would be slightly worse off – it would be dark all morning for them – but they’d still get the advantage of it being light when they got home from work and wanted to go for a walk or play with their kids or whatever.
Overall, I think this would be an enormous improvement. Maybe I need a more flexible job so I could do it myself… But then, I’d also need the willpower to get out of bed at 4 in the morning and go to work…
I’m loving the hats and gloves and scarves and boots and coats and twilight and LEAVES! aspects of autumn too. Next time we do more twilight photography? Maybe meeting somewhere more useful than ‘not IKEA’?
Jed asked what we ended up doing together.
Me: “We failed to find IKEA”
Jed: “how did you fail to find IKEA”
Me:”didn’t go far enough North”
Jed:”ah”
NB: I did NOT tell my flatmate this as he would then have proceeded to give me a 10 mintue in lecture in how easy it is and where I went wrong. the difference between supportive listening and unhelpful self-imprtance.