The best kind of photo moments -- and it is lovely

ann

On 6/27/2020 10:51 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I'm recovering from shoulder surgery and can't sleep on my right side. Sleeping 
on my back at a semi-reclined position means that I wake up after about 
two-three hours and have to get up, walk around, and sit upright for a bit 
before I can get back to sleep. I've been going through this cycle once or 
twice per night.

Last night I left the desk lamp in my office on when I went to bed at midnight. 
At 3:00 I awakened and this quiet, very low light emanated through the bedroom 
door from the hallway. It was beautiful; I had to make a photograph.

  https://flic.kr/p/2jfPGb7

I set the camera up on a tripod and leveled it in the office so as not to 
awaken my partner. Quietly tiptoed back into the bedroom and place it where I 
thought would work, pointed it in the right direction.

Hmm. What exposure? It was too dark for anything to show up on the LCD at all. 
I made an exposure on A mode and got nearly perfect exposure with the 
e-shutter. And then I realized the second problem: how to focus it. Hmm. hmm.

I went back to the office and found my little pencil beam flashlight, shone it 
on the doorknob, and manually focused the camera. Reframed just a little by 
turning the camera and tripod just a little to the left. Made a second 
exposure. Perfect.

As I step out of the bedroom carrying the camera and tripod, I hear this noise from 
behind me. "Go back to sleep," I said. Noise ceased.

Onwards.

G
—
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
  – Mark Twain



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