Spreading confusion over the internet since 1994
I liked how this Hipstamatic snapshot of the sun setting over Fulton Market turned out. I don’t recall using this particular set of lens/film1 previously, but it resembles a woodcut to me, especially if you embiggen by double clicking on the image.
Hipstamatic 367 / iPhone 13 Pro
9mm f/2.8
John S Lens, Uchitel 20 Film.
Footnotes:
or something
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I took Confutatis Maledictis on September 24, 2020 at 03:23AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on September 24, 2020 at 08:50AM
Obviously, didn’t take this photo at 3:23 AM in my local time, but there is some bug in the system that insists upon subtracting 5 hours from this automated time stamp. Usually doesn’t matter, but this photo is not of a moon.
confutatis maledictis
According to Google Translate, this phrase means, “Doomed”, but I don’t think that is completely accurate.
Wikipedia has two translations of this phrase from the Dies irae:
| When the wicked are confounded, Doomed to flames of woe unbounded, Call me with Your saints surrounded. |
Once the cursed have been silenced, sentenced to acrid flames: Call me, with the blessed. |
Truthfully, Mozart’s Requiem came on my iTunes shuffle this morning, and I liked the phrase. Only later did I wonder what confutatis maledictis really means, and researched a bit (including asking my brother who studied Latin in school).
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I took City Sonata Number Twenty Nine on March 01, 2020 at 11:29AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on March 01, 2020 at 05:29PM
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I took Pip checks out the N95 particulate respirator on February 29, 2020 at 08:36AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 29, 2020 at 02:42PM
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I took Nothing In The News Today on February 23, 2020 at 10:58AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 23, 2020 at 05:14PM
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I took Just A Little Song on February 23, 2020 at 10:59AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 23, 2020 at 05:14PM
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I took Waiting For Our Fair Share on February 23, 2020 at 11:12AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 23, 2020 at 05:14PM
I find it harder to take new photographs in the bleak mid-winter months, so instead dig through my massive archives of unprocessed photos. I randomly click around in my Lightroom catalog, find a time that has lots of photos that I never really looked at, and often find some interesting images to work on.
For instance, these are all from 20121
Ever Since The Day Began – Downtown Chicago with a bit of snow.
As Is Usually Required – Fulton Market somewhere. A study of light and brick.
I Almost Remember Now – alley, Elmhurst. I have no idea what that thing is, maybe for coal?
Nothing Was More – Blue Line, CTA tracks, and interstate traffic, Irving Park, Chicago
As Close To Yesterday – West Loop CTA tracks at dusk
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I took Early Evening Snow Flurries on January 17, 2020 at 10:36AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on January 17, 2020 at 04:44PM
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I took Rush Hour in the Snow on January 17, 2020 at 10:36AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on January 17, 2020 at 04:44PM
I took this photo of my stairway late Friday night, decided the photo would look better with more starkly defined lines, and converted it to black and white as i stood on the landing (via Snapseed and then Hipstamatic, I believe, but perhaps only in Hipstamatic). I realize Flickr’s Explore is a computerized algorithm, yet I still am amused when the attention firehose is pointed in my direction (as of this moment, this photo has 54 Faves and 1,873 views; for comparison, this photo has 5 Faves and 161 views). I didn’t even put in a caption at the time, nor add it to any group as it was late and I was a bit inebriated when I took and processed the photo. Was it timing? Was it just happenstance?
Don’t get me wrong, I like the photo, or else I wouldn’t have uploaded it. But what exactly is better about it than the others I’ve uploaded?
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I took Too Many People, Too Many To Recall on May 26, 2016 at 06:47AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on May 27, 2016 at 08:58AM
And for the record, not directly related to Obama’s administration, as far as I know. (Though it was a talking point of Newt Gingrich and other GOP presidential candidates in 2012)
for instance:
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I took Thanks, Obama on February 15, 2016 at 12:04PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 15, 2016 at 06:04PM
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I took Candy Is The Answer on January 26, 2016 at 08:19AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on January 26, 2016 at 02:19PM
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I took David Bowie Is…Waiting on November 09, 2014 at 07:19AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on January 11, 2016 at 10:02AM