Shooting at blue hour with a 35mm prime
Twenty minutes after sunset the sky does most of the work. I've stopped bracketing and started trusting the histogram instead — one exposure, slightly right, and a tripod I actually carry.
field notes
Photography, long walks, and the occasional side project.
A ridge loop worth the early start
14 km, 900 m of climbing, and a descent through larch forest that turns gold in late September. Start before 7 — the car park fills fast and the afternoon light is flat anyway.
Rewriting my photo-sorting script (again)
EXIF dates lie when the camera clock drifts. The fix was boring: compare against the phone's GPS track and shift by the median offset. Boring fixes are the best kind.