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Nov. 8th, 2003 02:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mirajeMy nerves are frayed.
My car up and died right at an intersection tonight while Mom and I were on our way to Hastings to buy DVDs. We had to push it off the road into a parking lot. I was about to be extremely disgruntled about this damn thing breaking down AGAIN until we realized that we were just out of gas. I think my fuel gauge got stuck right above empty, because it had been sitting at that spot for awhile. I've also been able to go a lot lower on the gauge without running out of fuel, so I don't know what the problem was. This car hates me.
Since tomorrow night is the full moon and the sky was completely clear of clouds tonight, I decided to run out to Ledges State Park and get some long exposure shots. I'm usually not a jumpy person, but being alone on a nature trail at 1 am with only a dim flashlight to light the way is enough to rattle anyone. I kept having visions of panthers and cougars jumping out from behind trees and eating me. I've been living in town far too long. Once I got to the little rocky outcrop where I planned to the take the picture I felt a little less paranoid, but at that point I had a whole 'nother problem to deal with....the cold. It's probably about 15 degrees outside right now, and I was sitting on solid sandstone. I was out away from the trees, too, so the wind started to pick up. I froze my ass off, and had started really wishing that I had picked up this photography hobby about six months earlier so that I could sit there and not wonder about the temperature at which frostbite sets in. I had bought an extra roll of 100 speed film in case I used up the roll in the camera, but I really only got four pics taken before I started imagining noises and green eyes in the woods around me. I bracketed the exposures to 1 minute, 2 minutes, 4 minutes, and 6 minutes. I know that for a full moon on 100 film it's somewhere between 6 and 10 minutes, but I had 400 ISO in the camera, so I knew it wasn't going to take that long. I still don't have a lot of confidence in 400 film for night shots, but I went on the advice of the guy at the camera store and used it. Just watch, there will probably be grain the size of golf balls on those pics. I just hope that at least one of them turns out. If not, I did all that shit for nothing. Oh, and on the way home I came about two feet from hitting a deer with the car. Lovely way to end the evening...
My car up and died right at an intersection tonight while Mom and I were on our way to Hastings to buy DVDs. We had to push it off the road into a parking lot. I was about to be extremely disgruntled about this damn thing breaking down AGAIN until we realized that we were just out of gas. I think my fuel gauge got stuck right above empty, because it had been sitting at that spot for awhile. I've also been able to go a lot lower on the gauge without running out of fuel, so I don't know what the problem was. This car hates me.
Since tomorrow night is the full moon and the sky was completely clear of clouds tonight, I decided to run out to Ledges State Park and get some long exposure shots. I'm usually not a jumpy person, but being alone on a nature trail at 1 am with only a dim flashlight to light the way is enough to rattle anyone. I kept having visions of panthers and cougars jumping out from behind trees and eating me. I've been living in town far too long. Once I got to the little rocky outcrop where I planned to the take the picture I felt a little less paranoid, but at that point I had a whole 'nother problem to deal with....the cold. It's probably about 15 degrees outside right now, and I was sitting on solid sandstone. I was out away from the trees, too, so the wind started to pick up. I froze my ass off, and had started really wishing that I had picked up this photography hobby about six months earlier so that I could sit there and not wonder about the temperature at which frostbite sets in. I had bought an extra roll of 100 speed film in case I used up the roll in the camera, but I really only got four pics taken before I started imagining noises and green eyes in the woods around me. I bracketed the exposures to 1 minute, 2 minutes, 4 minutes, and 6 minutes. I know that for a full moon on 100 film it's somewhere between 6 and 10 minutes, but I had 400 ISO in the camera, so I knew it wasn't going to take that long. I still don't have a lot of confidence in 400 film for night shots, but I went on the advice of the guy at the camera store and used it. Just watch, there will probably be grain the size of golf balls on those pics. I just hope that at least one of them turns out. If not, I did all that shit for nothing. Oh, and on the way home I came about two feet from hitting a deer with the car. Lovely way to end the evening...