In the Breezeway

I'm getting downright lazy about carrying my camera these days. I took the photos in this post with my phone while walking the dog yesterday morning. The phone does a good job for such a compact device, but there's definitely a trade-off in resolution. I'd like to go back and shoot this shop again with the big camera.

We had a pretty nice day yesterday. I sat out in the garden with the dog in the morning and read. The New Yorker had an interesting article about the National Trust in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which owns historic properties such as Georgian and Victorian country houses and estates. As you can imagine, given the era in which the older properties were built, many are historically tainted by slavery, having been built by slaveholders or people who profited from trade in human beings. The National Trust has been wrestling with how to recognize that, and of course their efforts have been a cultural lightning rod.

This is why I love The New Yorker -- they carry articles about issues I haven't seen elsewhere and present them comprehensively in a single narrative. Remind me of that the next time I bitch about the price.

"Why are you making me stand in the corner?"

I cleaned the house, including the dreaded bathroom, and then in the afternoon Dave and I walked Olga to the cemetery, where I experimented more with the 360-degree camera. (I keep calling it a 3-D camera, but that's something else entirely.)

Here are a couple of videos I made while at the cemetery, the first beneath the breezeway of the chapel (Dave is hiding behind a pillar because he didn't want to be in the shot) and the second in a circular garden where we watched another dog chasing its ball.

Remember to click on the video and drag the image around with your cursor to get the full effect.

I took several more but rather than embed them I'll give you links if you're really, really interested:

-- Throwing Olga's tennis ball at Fortune Green
-- Walking near some of the graves
-- Walking a shady path (moving the camera)
-- In the rose garden (looking very autumnal!)
-- Under a big tree

That's probably more 360-degree camera work than you ever wanted to see. I'm going to return it to work today so I won't subject you to any more, I promise.

Dave and I continued with "Squid Game" last night. We've almost finished it. It's a crazy show, and apparently it's burning up so much bandwidth in South Korea that the country's broadband provider has sued Netflix to pay for the additional Internet traffic!