24-4-20

 Game 1. Boston with an early lead. They won, 5-1. Leafs are up to their usual playoff strategy of looking terrible and probably going out in the first round. Fool me once, shame on them. Fool me 8 seasons in a row, maybe it's time to move on.

24-4-19

I almost made it through the entire season without a single cherry blossom picture. But the season is running long this year. Old habits...
 

24-4-18

 Another picture of the moon.

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24-4-16

 Mico.

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24-4-12

Camouflage. 
 

24-4-11

Spring is near.

24-4-10

 I've been here before. Different focal length, different lens. And the house has continued to rot. Yet, it's still there. The lot is worth over a million dollars. The lot next door is vacant. There's a housing crisis in Vancouver. This doesn't help.

24-4-9

 Chrysler.

24-4-8

 It was solar eclipse day. I saw one once. I thought about going to this one. It would have meant a drive to Newfoundland. The fringes were viewable from many places, but totality is what you want. Instead I stayed in Vancouver. And it rained. All day. Like it was December, it rained. Apparently it was clear in Newfoundland, but it would have been so bad if I drove that far and faced the same skies we got in Vancouver. 

So I'll make a joke about taking a photo of the partial eclipse, which you couldn't see, because of the clouds and rain. Which is a way of saying, "I didn't take a photograph today."

The next solar eclipse will be in 2026 and viewable in Iceland, Greenland, Spain, and parts of Portugal. That's a long way to drive... 

The one after that crosses northern Africa. 

No picture today. But the world was full of pictures today. So there's that. 

24-4-7

 Everything a buck-twenty-five or less. Dollar Store carcasses. 

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Beautiful Salon.
 

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24-3-31

 

Pussy Riot. 

Polygon Gallery.

Pussy Riot.

My soul craves art. 

Pussy Riot.

Pussy Riot.

24-3-30

 New bike. City bike. The mural confirmed my correct choice of pink touch up paint for the newly brazed on stops. Love this bike. Didn't like that I had to braze on stops to make it work. Also had to completely disassemble it to grease the interfaces, chase the BB, and swap out the seatpost that came with it for one where the bolts didn't touch the bottom of the seat when you weren't sitting on it. New seat too. 

The bike industry is in trouble. Multiple sources agree. All-City is now a defunct brand in a sea of newly defunct brands. I liked it enough to buy one before they disappeared for good. Maybe it's my last bike. 

24-3-29

 New bike. New bikes need to be fixed. Derailleur housing should never be run full length from the shifter to the derailleur so I added a stop. Made a huge difference to how crisply the shifting was.

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24-3-18

 I know I've taken this photo before. I took it today 3 times. I can't be bothered to find the other one. 17 years of photos on here now. I don't have the energy to look for the other photo. It would be an interesting inventory control exploration. Pretty sure the transmissions on the top shelf haven't moved in a while. 

24-3-17

One of the most livable cities in the world. If you can afford security cameras. Because people will steal your shit if you aren't watching every second.

 I've tried to understand my fascination with cowboys. I suspect it has something to do with a "law of the land" approach where the simplest of credos dominates. "Don't fuck with other people's shit." 

I just drew a cowboy. It wasn't until some time later that I remembered I had installed security cameras around the house. 

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24-3-13

 It dawns on me that after all these years of doing this, one day Google™ may decide Blogger is a dead medium and just delete it. It's free. Who blogs anymore? Huh. 

In the mean time, lens flare and a kid working on their car stereo for the win. 

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24-3-11

 Oscar

24-3-10

 I have a new camera itch. I feel like there's a perfect two or three combo camera setup out there that would be perfect. I don't like the Fuji X100 cameras. I've had 3 versions of that camera. Maybe a Ricoh GRIII. It would be good for "street." 

The bigger question is my main camera. My real camera. I've shot Nikon forever. The new Z cameras are interesting but Nikon is playing a game where if they make a focal length they won't license the mount to others. I like Nikon glass, but my favourite lens on my Nikon D750 now is the Sigma ART 35mm f/1.4. I bought mine on a random road trip to Calgary and it's been a favourite for 7 or 8 years now. It's the best lens I've ever owned. 

This photo was taken with a Canon G5X Mark ii. It's the best pocket camera I've ever owned. I took it for walk today. Is there a full sized camera that is as discreet as the Canon? Sony makes a couple of really small mirrorless full frame cameras with a lot of lens options. Sony? For cameras? Why not? My only fear is Sony may say, "screw it. cameras are dead to us" in five years. Nikon has no choice but to continue on as a camera company. It's all they do. 

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