Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

The convention has a fine photo policy. That policy is not "take pictures of strangers and, if they point out that you should have asked for permission, offer to delete the photo."

I'm posting this because at least two people took that approach to photography. Two that I noticed, because they used flash to take pictures of me. It seems statistically unlikely that those were the only two. (I don't even want to assume that they remembered for the rest of the weekend, though I will hope.)

In this case, deleting wouldn't have helped anything: camera flashes pointed at me hurt. If someone asks, I can say "don't do that" or "only if you can do it without flash." Once they've hurt my eyes, deleting the image won't stop my eyes hurting.

(I am planning to do some con report type stuff, and will link here if it seems of general interest. I have also posted this entry to the LJ Wiscon community.)

I've uploaded eight photos to Flickr: six of them are of some large orange sunflowers that were growing down on 207th Street last month, with bees visiting. The only color manipulation on any of those is that I used Paint.net's "autolevel" feature on one of them.


This is the most orange of the lot. (The plants also produced a few smaller yellow sunflowers.)

The other two are of a jimsonweed plant that was growing at the edge of a soccer field in Inwood Hill Park, next to the cement edging of a path: the spot is a tiny, intermittent watercourse, which was probably an advantage this dry summer.

I bought a new camera a few weeks ago, and have been playing with it a little. Thus far it's mostly at the stage of getting a feel for how the camera works, and giving myself permission to take lots of photos I'm going to throw away. I took it into the park when it still looked like autumn, mostly for pictures of color, but also got a couple of shots of a tugboat on the river. I did very minimal editing.( tree, milkweed, tugboat, and cat )