EclectEcon

Lockdown Photo #46

Looking up into the Sodastream.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Homage to the Geese

Since the geese in the area seem to like to walk all over my snowstomp art, I wondered whether it might help if I pretended to honour them by doing picture of a Canadian Goose (albeit a bit too short-necked) in the several inches of snow we received overnight.

My previous snow stomp art:

        Goose

        Fibonacci's Balloon

        Waiting for Our Covid-19 Vaccination

        2020 -- Spiraling

        Wear me

        The Meaning of Life

        Peter Cottontail Visits the Condo

        Fight CV19 and STAY HOME

        Skool Daze

        I Think It Might Rain

        The Penrose Triangle

        Snowflakes (done with my granddaughters)

       Tobogganing Through the Trees   

        Kilroy Was Here

       Happy St. Patrick's Day, 2019

       Spring is Sprung

       You Wanted Spring? 

       Too Cold to Build a Snowman 

       Simply a-MAZE-ing 

       Let There Be Music

      Ommadawn 

      The First Robin of Spring? 

      Be My Valentine, 2018

      Curling AND the Super Bowl

      I'm No Escher... 

      Hark! the Herald Angel Sings

      Nativity Scene, 2017

      Planning an Escape

      Caught in the Net

Surf's Up 

Diagonally Warped in a Parallel Universe, Part 2

      Diagonally Warped in a Parallel Universe

      Pikachu

      Happy New Year, 2017

      O Tannenbaum

      Nativity Scene

Special Weather Statement

Think Tropics

Qubix

Valentine, 2016

Paisley'd Circles

Happy New Year, 2016

The House of the Rising Sun

Easter Eggs

A weak pattern in the blowing snow.

The same pattern after some melting

New Year's Champagne

Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Happy Valentine's Day

Cabaret

A Christmas Tree (my first effort)

Lockdown Photo #45

Some of the LED lights in the lamp clamped to my music stand.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

Lockdown Photo #44

Cheese grater

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Lockdown Photo #43

Headphone ear cup, right ear.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Lockdown Photo #42

The shadow of the teakettle on the kitchen wall

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Lockdown Photo #41

We've been playing a lot of gin rummy and cribbage during the past year. Here's the deck of cards we've been using, resting on the edge of the table.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

Lockdown Photo #40

Oops, I guess I got too close for this one.

One of many flowers in the needlepoint cover my grandmother did maybe 70 years ago for a spring rocker.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

Lockdown Photo #39

Not a toilet.

Not a bidet.

A closeup, looking into the infrared sensor of our thermometer.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Lockdown Photo #38

Paper cup from the bathroom.

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Lockdown Photo #37

Looking down through the frosted glass of a small table lamp. We have several of these lamps with very low power LED bulbs that we leave on all the time as night lights and ambient lighting.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Lockdown Photo #36

The handle of the vacuum cleaner, along with its shadow.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Lockdown Photo #35

A shot glass full of a spiral of plastic toothpicks.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

The Lockdown Photo Series

A couple of weeks ago, the Premiere of Ontario issued a "stay-at-home" order that would last for a month. It wasn't terribly confining for me, but it meant we wouldn't be dining out for awhile (we hadn't been anyway) and we wouldn't be spending any time with our friends or family except via Zoom or Teams or FaceTime. We can still go for walks. We can still go for groceries (to stores that must have aisles of 'non-essential' items blocked off and must limit the number of patrons in the store). We can even buy things from many other stores if we arrange curbside pickup. And we can still order take-out food from most restaurants.

I anticipated that I would feel a sense of confinement, even though I'm not really terribly confined here in our condo unit., and so a few days after the "Stay-at-Home" order, it occurred to me that it might be fun to take photos of things in the unit in ways that capture something different about them -- different angles, different perspectives, different lighting, etc.

When I first started the project, I expect to post roughly one photo per day for thirty days. But the minute I began posting the series (here and on Facebook), though, I posted three photos each day. Up until now, I have posted 34 different photos or sets of photos.

Yesterday, the Premiere announced the "lockdown" would continue at least until May 20th. If I keep up with the pace, I will be posting nearly 100 more photos here over the next 33 days.  I have a few more, still, on my phone, but I'll need to take many, many more. It will be interesting to see if or how long I can continue posting photos in the series.

My camera: iPhone 12 Pro Max

Lockdown Photo #34

A two-part floor lamp. The part on the left goes straight up, and the part on the right is a goose-neck lamp that can be bent to point in different directions.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Lockdown Photo(s) #33

It might be a bit of a struggle to see these fingerprints from the great grands on the living room window. We’re not cleaning them off ‘til the lockdown is over.

It was hard to photograph them because we can’t hold white or black paper behind them.

 

 

 

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Lockdown Photo #32

A spruce-cone-shaped weight on the cuckoo clock that was one of many clocks owned by my late father-in-law.

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Lockdown Photo #31

Crossed legs of a folding tv table.

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Lockdown Photo #30

Furnace filter.

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Lockdown Photo #29

The side view of my Selmer-Bach trumpet.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

There's a long story behind it, I'm sure.

Lockdown Photo #28

A portion of a decorative halogen table lamp. These glass pieces diffuse and distribute the light from the bulb, located above them.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

 

 

Lockdown Photo #27

The electric eye motion detector on our garbage can.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Lockdown Photo #26

A sparkly remnant left on the carper from the last time our great granddaughters visited.

No, I didn't pick it up; and no, I didn't vacuum it up. It's just too fun a memory, especially since we can't have them come visit us during the current lockdown.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Lockdown Photo #25

The corner of a mirror frame that is part of a bedroom dresser.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

Lockdown Photo #24

My really old TimberLake loafers. They're cracked and covered with pollen, and I've had to fill in some spots with Shoe Goo. I wear them mostly for knock-about these days. They're comfortable and easy to slip on, but they provide zero support.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

 

Lockdown Photo #23

The lower front portion of a different fan.

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Lockdown Photo #22

Doorstop spring. I think it's probably original equipment from when the building was built over 35 years ago. I don't remember when the rubber cap came off, but judging from the colour differences, it must have been relatively recently

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.

Lockdown Photo #21

The upper left-hand corner of our credenza-type filing cabinet

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Lockdown Photo #20

"The Meeting"

(of closet bifold doors)

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Lockdown Photo #19

A set of cutting boards resting against the kitchen wall.

Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.