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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Shots from the weekend. Both 500mm, hand-held, all manual. One from a kayak, the other with a macro helicoid. I'm so tired.

Close-up photo of a bald eagle in an evergreen tree, grooming itself. Its big eyes and partly-open beak make it look sort of like an angry Muppet.

Close-up photo of some wild raspberries, with vivid green out-of-focus leaves all around them.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"Now, hold up just a minute there, Bud... It turns out, there IS a rule that says dogs can't play basketball."

Photograph of a sign on a fence, which reads: "Dogs are NOT permitted on sport fields at any time." "Not" is underlined and in bold, they really mean it.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Photo. Wrestler Rudy Lockhart makes a pained expression while the heel Big T holds him up by his hair during a match.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Some more pictures from the Kite Festival... Am I supposed to put some kind of hashtags on these? I don't know what the deal with that stuff is.

A photograph of a rainbow-coloured kite flying in front of a Union Jack flag.

A photo of a kite shaped like a pirate ship in orange and black, with the skull & crossbones on its sails.

A photograph of a green, leafy tree, its branches full of crashed kites of many shapes and colours. Another kite flies just above it, tempting fate.

A photo of a kite shaped like a tri-plane, with markings like the infamous Red Barron from World War I, swoops low over the Halifax Citadel.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I haven't gone through all the pictures yet, but here are a few shots from the kite festival today at the Halifax Citadel. All 500mm f/8, I think.

Photograph of a crowd of people flying kites of many different sizes, shapes, and colours.

A large kite made to resemble a trilobite or horseshoe crab flies in front of a distant construction crane.

A child runs past an enormous, brightly coloured parachute-like kite as it rises from the ground.

A kite shaped like a spooky giant skeleton, black with green eyes, flutters low over the ground in front of a man for whom it is probably not any kind of omen. He's fine.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Repost your profile pic, if you wish. Mine is this painting @liamleroux42.bsky.social did for me, the album cover for the soundtrack of a lost movie I made up, cropped in to focus on the mammoth. (There are a few CD copies floating around, but they sadly predate this wonderful art.)

A brightly coloured painted album cover for "Cirque De L'Espace: Original Sountrack Recording", featuring imagery of space, circuses, a (possibly tiny) mammoth and a (possibly giant) fly.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

It seems like people a long way south of me are seeing more of the Northern Lights than I have, but it was a nice night to hang out on the beach hoping for a shot of them, anyway.

Photograph. A distorted shot of the night sky, with many faint stars, and the moon reflecting off of water.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Mostly for the Dust Brothers remix.

The cover of the X-Files: Fight The Future soundtrack album.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Backwoods performs an inverted bulldog on Dreamkiller Troy Merrick at Sanctuary Arts Centre.

Photo. Wrestler Backwoods performs an inverted bulldog on Troy Merrick, AKA Dreamkiller.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Justin Newhook, the Newfoundland Nightmare, versus Jonathan Cross at the Sanctuary Arts Centre.

Photo. Wrestler Justin Newhook holds his opponent Jonathan Cross upside down before slamming him to the mat.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Justin Newhook (top) vs Johnathan Cross (bottom) at the Sanctuary Arts Centre.

Photograph. During a wrestling match, Justin Newhook straddles Jonathan Cross and grabs him by the face while the referee looks on.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Dayton Cameron (blue pants) vs Max Power (eating a superkick).

Photo. Wrestler Dayton Cameron performs a superkick on Max Power.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Dream Killer, AKA Troy Merrick, enters for his match against Backwoods.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

And they immediately turn on each other.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Opening match: A three-way between Duce (in black), Big T (blue) and Halifax's own Rudy Lockhart (red). Duce and Big T briefly cooperate to crush Rudy between them.

Photo. Wrestlers Duce and Big T crush Rudy Lockhart between them in the ring.

Photo. Wrestlers Duce and Big T separate, revealing Rudy Lockhart who they have just crushed.

Photo. Wrestler Rudy Lockhart falls to his knees after being crushed between Duce and Big T.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Well, @liamleroux42.bsky.social, you were right. Had the 85mm f/2 on all night wide open. Honestly I could have brought the 50mm f/1.5 and gotten use out of it - next time I guess. (They actually told me I could use flash, but I don't have one.) Lots of RAWs to try to save from under exposure...

Photo. Wrestler Big T grabs opponent Rudy Lockhart by his hair at the start of a match.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

720nm infrared, blue/red channel swapped in post. (And, okay, the vignette and a little distortion added in post too - trying to make a virtue of that lens flare, I didn't bring a hood or a polarizer.)

A circular image of some buildings in a wooded landscape, across a lake in which they are reflected. Partly obscured by a lens flare.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

One of the fog pictures from yesterday.

Photo. Over the top of a tall building, an even taller building and the top of a tower crane emerge as silhouettes in the heavy fog.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

I was out trying to get some fog pictures this morning (mixed results) and noticed this juxtaposition. ~700mm (500mm mirror lens on a 1.4x teleconverter), hand-held. (Contrast significantly enhanced after the fact.) I call it "OneupsmanSHIP".

Photo. A grey Canadian naval ship sits in dry dock, with a tall cruciform radio mast, in front of the somewhat taller cross-topped steeple of a red brick church.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

To lighten the mood a little, here's another shot from the full-spectrum camera, in the Halifax Public Gardens:

Photograph of a a stream in a park, crossed by a small bridge in the distance. There is a miniature house under the bridge, reflected in the stream, and the plants on either side appear various shades of red, pink, and purple.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Most of my pictures from Sunday night require some cleanup - my Jupiter-3 is fast, but not fast to focus - but these came out quite clear.

Photograph of a crowd of protestors with signs calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and freedom for Palestinians.

Photograph of a young woman protestor with a sign reading, "My grandparents did not fight the Nazis in WW2 so Canada could fund genocide".

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

I'm too tired to go through all my pictures from the Gaza demonstration tonight, but I cleaned this one up a little at least. It seemed serendipitous.

Photograph of people marching in the street. One is flying a Palestinian flag, and there is a mural of two clasped hands in the background.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

With the right white balance, some of the full spectrum pictures look pretty good.

Photograph of a park by a pond. All the foliage appears to be shades of red or pink.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

I opened up my old point-and-shoot camera and took out the IR filter. It will look better when I get some different filters to replace it with, but at any rate it still works.

A photograph of some foliage. The leaves are all shades of red or magenta.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Surprisingly fine sailing weather for the time of year.

A photograph of a small sailboat on a pond, with more in the background. #dalle #gpt4

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

When I can't deal with things now, I'm going back and editing some of my photos. I mostly goosed the contrast here until it looked like I remember. Not bad. Sort of peaceful.

A photograph of autumn colours along a stretch of the Great Canadian Trail.

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Solipsody @solipsodist.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

The stress got bad enough I had to start deep frying. Oh, yeah, I'm back maybe. A little.

A photograph of a plate of fish and chips with tabouli salad.

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