Revising My Website
I’ve been revising my web site, less a redesign, more a recalibration. A short note on what changed and why: dougmclachlan.com/2025/12/24/revising-the-site
Photography, personal tools & tech, random interests
Sunday July 6, 2025
A great walk this morning with a great friend. Pics on the photo blog.
Out & About in June
I just posted some favorite photos from June on my photo blog. All cropped in the XPan 65:24 aspect ratio, which is one of my favorites. You can check them out here.
Friday July 4: Creative Breaks
A break this afternoon to complete a color study chart for my watercolours and a few evening pics from the deck.
Happy Canada Day
More than ever I appreciate how fortunate I am to call this place home.
Monday June 23, 2025
Feel's like a waste not to use this great blogging platform, I need to be lest precious about what I post. Same problem I have with notebooks!Resurrecting My Canon A-1 I've recently pulled out my Canon A1 SLR that I've had since I was a teenager. I put a roll of Tri-X through it, just finished shooting the roll today on a mid-day walk. I also lubricated the reflex mirror’s gears to get rid of an annoying “shutter squeak” that apparently is quite common with Canon SLR's as of this era. I bought a kit with lubricant, a custom applicator...
Scribbles & External Images
Juat a test to see how posting here with an external image works https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54609876152_f1bbce19ce_3k.jpg
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...
Battery Low
My watch knows how I'm feeling right now. A walk in the forest helped!
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.
Sunday Serendipity
Being in the right place at the right time still requires putting yourself there. I was feeling particularly slothlike yesterday but forced myself to go for a photo walk. I was rewarded with a beautiful afternoon and the gift of a spectacular rainbow. Even before spotting the rainbow my mood had improved significantly! More pics from the afternoon on my photo blog.
Examine The Wall You've Hit
When you hit a wall in life it's often a good idea to stop and examine the wall before you try and get around, over or through it. It's a life lesson I've had to re-learn many times! A few snaps this evening with the Ricoh GR3x.
Twilight Companions
I took this photo a couple of weeks back and published in in this post as a color photo. I like the black and white version too! The photo was made with the Fujifilm XT-2 and the 70-300 lens. Neither the XT-2 nor the 70-300 lens get much love from me these days. I don't tend to gravitate towards long focal lengths but I was shooting some people playing in low tides that evening and having a lens with some reach is handy in that situation!
The Black Keys' Ohio Players - Expectations Exceeded
Ohio Players, the new album by the Black Keys dropped on Friday. I've been looking forward to the release and it's exceeded my expectations! I don't remember the last time I enjoyed a new album so much! I also enjoyed the review on Pitchfork and the recent interview on Spin's Sonic Impact podcast
