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Going to kick off this account (and screen name?) with a "side" hobby of mine that's effectively been my main thing for the past while: photography.

And as far as photos to start with go, here's one I took during the May 10, 2025 geomagnetic storm. I figure an aurora photo on which I really pushed the contrast and saturation in post is fitting, given that the "main" project I'm planning on working toward is looking like it's going to be soft sci-fi (…or science fantasy, even?) in space!

#photography #space #aurora #northernlights #auroraborealis #spaceweather #spacewx #astrophotography

A moment of quiet in what was (for me) a hectic day.

🗺️: Schaan, 🇱🇮.

#Liechtenstein #photography #photo #architecture

Downtown Vancouver as seen through an "inefficient" hot mirror and a blue filter.

#Vancouver #photography #fullspectrum #infrared #full_spectrum_photography #infrared_photography #photo #digital_photography

The red/blue channel swap trick with colour IR photos really produces pretty results — as long as there aren't any natural objects in the scene apart from the sky, water, and vegetation.

🗺️:
Whatcom County, WA, USA (Lummi; Nooksack)
Seattle, WA, USA (Duwamish)
Vancouver, BC, Canada (unceded Squamish; Musqueam; Tsleil-Waututh)
Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Shawnee; Lenape; Seneca)

#photography #photo #infrared #architecture #aerial

Some photos from Tuesday's aurora. I expected the cloud cover to be either worse or better than what there ended up being, but I suppose, with enough editing, these ones turned out alright?

(Including an infrared photo!)

#aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #infrared #photography #photo

Chicago (August 2023).

#Chicago #city #skyscrapers #architecture #buildings #photography #photo

Normal City,

#photography #photo #infrared #infraredphotography #Vancouver

Symmetry.

In order:
• Bellver Castle, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
• University of Zurich Law Library, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
• World Trade Center, New York City, New York, USA

#Palma #Mallorca #Spain #Zurich #Switzerland #NYC #architecture #photography #photo

Same ferry, same time of day, different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

🗺️ Mukilteo, Washington, USA.

#photography #photo #infrared #ocean #boat #ferry #Washington

NB: I wasn't sure how best to, in the location description, convey that this is also on the lands of the Snohomish people. Where I live, "unceded (nation) land" usually applies; in this case, though, there is a treaty.

Those blue parts look the exact same black as the black parts to the naked eye, by the way.

#photography #photo #infrared #infraredphotography

A photo taken right after a friend and I exited a pizzeria to the almost deafening roar of tens if not hundreds of motorcycles.

🗺️ Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

#infrared #infraredphotography #photography #motorcycle #Barcelona #photo

If you look closely, you can see exactly how far the camera travelled in the 500μs it took to capture this exposure.

#photography #rollingshutter #rail #train #tgv

From this angle, you can see at least four of the SkyTrain's five rails. Not seen here: this is multiple storeys under street level, and looks as if it is underground most of the time, but this is at the true ground level.

#photography #train #rail #city #SkyTrain

As someone who used to run a single-user instance with a 65,536 character limit, seeing that the limit is 1,024 here gives me some kind of emotions!!