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Sunday, October 20, 2024

Too Close To CallYesterday's British Columbia provincial election was impossibly close. We won't know the official outcome for at least a week. The stalemate has me wondering if something about our increasingly polarized society is contributing to 50/50 outcomes. QueuedI've started listening to Oliver Burkeman's follow-up to Four Thousand Weeks, Meditations for Mortals, Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts. I'm consuming the prescribed 1 chapter a day, for 28 days. It's off to a strong start. Atmospheric Rivers and CreeksI remember a time, not too long ago, when an Atmospheric River was called "heavy...

Should It Stay Or Should It Go?

I have a fair number of cameras and lenses.  Not an intervention-worthy number but it's a fair number nonetheless.  I find it hard to sell cameras and lenses due to a combination of FOMO, nostalgia and novelty.  I always return to all or most of the gear in my collection eventually but I'm not sure that's a good enough reason to keep it all.  Too much gear leads to indecision for me when I want to go out and photograph.  Eliminating some gear won't solve this but it does help, I know from experience when I unloaded a bunch of...

Yet To Figure It Out

I like Scribbles, the authoring experience, the look and feel. It's a low-friction way to blog. I have yet to figure out exactly how I want to use it.  I have 3+ years invested in my photo blog at dougmclachlan.com and while it takes a bit more effort to post there (I'm using a Git repo and Blot.im) I like that platform a lot. Best not to overthink it I suppose. They are just personal blogs after all! Here are a few of photos from yesterday.  More on the photo blog.