Mental photography

by wrinkler on December 30, 2009

It started snowing about 4 yesterday. Big, gloppy flakes that stuck.

One of my favorite things about snow is how it looks at night under the streetlights. So I thought I’d take a picture to show you what I love.

I wasn’t totally committed to the idea.

For instance, I didn’t want to go outside to take the picture. I wanted to take it from the inside of the glass storm door.

I took about six pictures at various settings. For most of them, the exposure time was so long, I had to turn the camera off to get the shutter to close. This is a good sign that things aren’t going well.

snow2You can kind of see how nice it is at night when it snows, anyway.

I don’t know what that twisty line of light is in the upper right. But I have a theory.

The exposure time was SO long, I actually caught some of my mental activity on camera. You know how you can set a camera up in a dark haunted house on a really long exposure and take pictures of ghosts? Same principle.

It looks like the way I think. A shot in the dark that gets kind of twisted up and then peters out altogether.

{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

Nurse Tattoo 12.30.09 at 12:52 pm

I wish that my brain activity could have been captured by your camera. It would have been a pink line, most likely in the shape of a catheter, or hello kitty. xoxo

A Seestah 12.30.09 at 2:48 pm

I think it’s a good thing that both ends are above the middle. That way, no matter which way you think the stream of mental activity is moving, it peters up not down.

wrinkler 12.30.09 at 7:36 pm

Seestah,
Excellent point! I’ll sleep better tonight.

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