Framed and to be Hung

24/11/2012

Almost a year has passed since I pushed in the last piece of the 3,000 piece Old World Map puzzle into place. And a few months have gone by since I first asked my father to have a frame built for the puzzle. Well, yesterday, the task was finally accomplished. The first milestone was having the frame assembled. The second was to return the frame, which was 20cm short in length and have it extended. The third milestone was to get the finished frame back and realise that the puzzle just doesn't fit. An hour and a half it took, to find the correct orientation of the ply board, the puzzle and the fibre glass, after which I finally had the frame on. Then I got down to nailing it shut, which was easier said that done. Over 25 nails required. Finally, with the sweat of victory sweetening my armpits, I raised the framed puzzle and leaned it against the crockery shelf. It was a sight to admire. Unfortunately, it's too heavy to be hung by conventional means, so I have to wait for a bracket to be made.

And as always, pictures below.

Glow in the Dark Bedsheets

Hello, World

I took some time out to get a better photograph of my glow-in-the-dark bedsheets. The sheets are pretty awesome. Nothing beats lying down over dimly glowing butterflies and flowers before closing my physical eyes and opening those of my mind.

Anyway, the photography wasn't easy. I tried a smaller aperture to keep everything in focus, seeing that I was shooting at a distance ranging from a single foot to 7 feet, and lower ISO to reduce noise, but I gave on that after a 2 minute 30 second exposure resulted in a blank. My second attempt with the largest aperture (f/3.5 at 18mm) and 1600 ISO fetched better results in 30 seconds, but then my 6 year old 1GB Kingston CF Card finally gave way. Not working. The card reader shows blank. The camera says that the card is not usable. So I fetched my father's old digital camera (one of the first Canon Digital Ixus cameras) and removed the 32MB Samsung card. My D70s listed 9 available exposures. I setup the camera again, tried a few shots on aperture priority to check the depth of field (nothing good there) and the frame. And then off went the lights, the routers and access points and the screen of my laptop. 30 seconds in the darkness later I had a brand new shot, waiting for you below.

Later.

P.S: The little white light on the top right corner is from my HDD. Apparently a handkerchief wasn't enough to get rid of it all in a 30 second exposure.