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“There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language, for it is in the nature of each one to communicate its mental contents… We cannot imagine a total absence of language in anything.”

— Walter Benjamin (1916)

lol i thought the white bricks were a literal wall of snow. it just made sense because *waves around at the outdoors right now*

looking up at a brick building with off-white trim. ground floor has a faded blue sign with flamboyant white lettering that reads "Yume Wo Katare" with "until 2030" in smaller lettering, top right of sign (its a ramen place)

#photography
waiting for public transit is always a good time to have a camera...
(previous pic and this were taken while waiting for the bus)

looking through the glass on the side of a bus stop at the road and cars. some faded graffiti in white is visible, and 2 sheets of paper plastered to the glass that are old and scratched up behind legibility

#cmountlens #photography

an old rough-stone church face in bright sunshine with a large round leaded glass window above--but offset from--an entrance archway

#cmount #photography

two old metal drums with rusted lids mostly buried in bright white snow behind an old chainlink fence

#cmount #photography

a photo of the space between a green house and the long wall of windows on an old rag-and-bone shop. the small space is filled with snow and thus, light, bouncing and reflecting off the wall of glass. a triangular wedge of clear blue sky appears at the top of the image.

the space between
#cmount #photography

looking up a snow-covered incline in a cemetery. a line of animal tracks runs down the left side

looking down at a snowy expanse in a cemetery. multiple sets of animal tracks can be seen in the center of the image

tracks in the snow
#cmountlens #photography

a dry road cuts through a cemetery covered in a thick snow-pack. looking towards longfellow's grave, actually, up on top of that rise at the visible end of the road

looking to the right from the previous photo at a frozen pond covered in thick snow. a white enamel sign on a black cast iron pole reads "cuphea path" but the path itself is buried. a large stone obelisk can be seen on the far side of the frozen pond.

dirty shoveled snow shaped by the wind and shadow on the leeward side of three identical old slab headstones. the gathered snow almost looks like it's reaching up to touch the headstones. tap-to-wake. many more old headstones can be seen scattered in the snowy background

mt. Auburn cemetery looks good in snow
not as nice a wander, tho
if this was the normal, I'd wear snow shoes
#cmout #photography

late day light in a snow-covered cemetery catches 2 identical tiny headstones in the center of the image. the long shadow of a memorial behind the camera is stamped into the snow in front of the 2 tiny gravestones.

#photography

with a tiny added border that's rly dark and hard to see... oops. ignore that bit

photo taken on a rise in a snow covered cemetery. below in the distance is a sunlit shore and a circular marble columned memorial; in the foreground on the left is a tall shadowy stone memorial

uncropped full-sensor (aps-c) image showing the lens' image circle
#cmount #photography

sunlight strikes a single dangling branch on a shadowy tree beside a frozen pond covered in snow

#cmount #photography

vertical image of long narrow brick building undergoing repairs beneath a sky filled with electric trolley wires and a three-quarters moon. lens tilt makes the brick building look like its supported by the scaffolding on its right side as it leans towards a bright metallic streetlamp and a dark metal pole on the right of frame.

evening collage
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oh! mft is micro 4/3. ya on that small sensor you wouldn't see the full image circle. im using aspc size sensor--image circle just touches top and bottom of frame (depending on aperture)

a large old tree stretches out above a bright snow covered cemetery against a cloudless blue sky

a large old tree covered in ivy in a snowy park. in the background is a boxy brick apartment building. the sky is blue and clear

a couple of friendly old trees from the last week. left is in mt. Auburn cemetery, right is in a playground in north Cambridge
#photography #tree

photo of a squat metal cmount lens on a thin black metal mount adapter

this is a .7" super comat bell&howell on a fuji body, w a simple c-to-fx metal adapter with threads

two identical old headstones with a green patina around the edge behind a small black iron fence in a very snow-covered cemetery

a carved stone path-marker almost completely buried in bright white snow

white enamel sign on a black cast-iron base reads "SPRUCE AVE" but all signs of the path have been erased by feet of snow. behind it on a slight rise are many old headstones, as far as the eye can see.

#cmountlens #photography

these are round because it's the full image circle projected by the lens onto the sensor. on a 16mm camera, the film gate would effectively crop out everything except a rectangle in the very center

but also: all lenses create round images, ofc. we just..like them square?

yes!

a gnarled old grey tree that looks kind of like a giant elephant foot in a bright sunny snow-covered cemetery.

at mt. Auburn cemetery yesterday
#cmount #photography #tree

a footbridge to the vanishing point, covered in packed snow with the long shadow of one of the wooden handrails running directly down the center

looking down a busway on the ground floor of a cement parking arcade. sunlight on an external wall at the end reflects off windows along the left, and in a large puddle in the foreground on the right

perspectives
#cmountlens #photography

a frozen pond covered in snow surrounded by a dark leafless wood beneath a deep blue cloudless sky

#cmount #photography

an agitated bluejay stands on a bush covered in half-a-foot of new snow. its crest is blowing in strong wind and it's beak is wide open as it screams into the storm.

storm jay had things to say

we heard it before we saw it, screaming in the snow and hopping from fence to bush and finally to the feeder, where it ate some seeds, screamed again, and then disappeared back into the blizzard
#cmountlens #photography #bluejay

a mountain of snow on top of red bricks. above it is a thicket of woody winter stems filled with house sparrows. above them is public art on top of tall poles: a black and white cow on one and an impressionistic tree on another

a mountain of snow in a bank parking lot. behind it can be seen many more snow berms

#cmountlens #photography

a male house sparrow grips a nearly vertical woody stem as his feathers are ruffled by the wind. his gaze is intensely fixed on a nearby feeder (out-of-frame, right), filled up just before the snow started.

storm sparrow

#photography #housesparrow #cmount

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

three lil house sparrows sitting on a branch during a lull in a blizzard. the female on the left is looking back over her shoulder, giving serious side-eye to the storm

blizzard birds
waiting for a chance at the feeder
#photography #housesparrow

the small dark knot of a house sparrow under a roof of heavy snow that's collected on top of a leafless bush in the neighbors yard.

heavy snow thicker than the branches supporting it, and the nearby wall of a house, entirely covered in snow

looking between houses to a distant street and a barely visible car in a driveway across that street. long cables droop in multitudes between the many houses and above the street. everything else is snow

during the storm
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multiple snow covered yards are visible. a car or truck of some kind is buried on the right, behind the snow covered handle of a buried snow shovel. a bit of chainlink fence is visible at the bottom, with all of the spaces jammed full of snow.

looking down a long alleyway, filled with snow. garbage and recycling bins line the left side, half buried in snow. the wall visible behind them is plastered with snow. beyond them, a lone windshield wiper sticks up from a heap of snow, hinting at the car below.

long lens
heavy snow
#cmountlens #photography

a cat witnesses the blizzard from an enclosed back porch. the interior is exposed very dark because the exterior was blindingly bright. yellow curtains with dark patterns hang in front of the window on the left while the cat looks out the window on the right.

the view out the window during a lull in the wind. the back yard and all bushes and plants are flattened under an obliterating snow. behind that is a separate garage, covered in snow. behind that are bare trees, dark in the bright whiteout. taken through an old dirty window, itself plastered with snow (the upper windowpane in the previous photo)

the cat and
the storm
#photography