Photography - SB Hopper

Memory.

I successfully cancelled a few streaming platforms. I'm probably not the only person who signs up for trials or for a series and then forgets to cancel. It's not a great feeling knowing I've been mindlessly paying one company $10+ a month and not watching anything as they were preparing

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Extrapolations

Two years ago, making the blog work with Lightroom and an increasing number of hard drives was easy. Step away for just a moment, and the muscle memory deteriorates. Took me ages to find and reconcile a few images I wanted to post today. Such is the blogging life. Poor

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Memory of a Place and Time

I'm looking forward to Dune 2 on HBO. I'm not sure how the HBO episodes match up with the Frank Herbert novels; it's been a long time since I've read them. I can't remember how many I made it through. When I was reading them, I liked the idea that

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To Boldly Go

I finished the third season of For All Mankind. It wasn't easy. The writing, dialogue, and acting were pretty bad in spots. But I like stories about space, what-ifs, science, and problem-solving. For All Mankind has plenty of that. I didn't know anything about the show going in. Not a

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Something in the way

You say eavesdropping, I say just part of eating at the bar. I overheard a story that I loved. Three people. One of them is trying to sell her father's waterfront home. That person was fairly quiet, but a friend filled the third person in on the details and then

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Trying to beat the clock

January 2023. No one wants a it's been a while post, so I'll skip past that in hopes of getting this written before February. A wee bit of momentum, perhaps. Hope springs eternal, right? It's 2330 in Phoenix, so I'll need to keep this short if I'm to beat the

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H Mart wasabi hits different

Capitol Hill has an H Mart (technically their M2M urban convenience variant...ugh, I wrote variant). I love it. I haven't really bought much there, but I like walking around, despite the looming security guards. I've been on an Asian noodle kick recently. Thanks, Kenji. I need to ask one

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Odds and Ends

The finale of Severance was intense. (No Spoilers here.) I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Our main characters had a window, of unknown length, to reflect and gain awareness about their circumstances. A window that could close at any moment. Some of their actions confused

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Of two minds

Try not to take your work home with you. What if you couldn't, no matter how hard you tried? That's the premise of Severance, but it's drastically oversimplified. I'm really enjoying the show. Thanks for recommending it, Chuck. It's got everything. And, as a sometimes blogger who claims he likes

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Plans

I know I can be a downer sometimes. I blame some of it on the medium. I think if we were sitting down having an actual conversation, it would come across more as questioning and searching rather than the sky is falling. Even though the sky is falling. I'm going

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It's been a while

Well, I sure dropped out of sight for a while. I think the pandemic and a lot of other depressing news caught up to me. I just wasn't excited about anything. The dark days and near constant rains of early November sure didn't help. Shook up the routine a bit,

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The Essentials

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Wasn't always grey...

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Corvus

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The Irish were born for leaving...

...otherwise the world would have no pubs. It's a line in the trailer for Belfast [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIrOIrt30kE], and I might have misquoted it. The movie looks fantastic, and I can't wait to see it. Black and white, incredible actors, and fantastic music. At least two

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Print your work...

...but be more organized than I am. And don't listen to people who tell you what to do. You're not the boss of me! But for me, man, viewing photos online will never be better than holding a print or looking at a photo on a wall. Oh, on that

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A Fallen Son

I caught up with an old friend tonight, and it was fantastic. As the hour approached, I threw up the usual road-blocks. I'm tired. I'm reclusive. Can I reschedule? Grateful that the answer came up no. Go. TB, we went to Bar Cotto, and it was wonderful. I had a

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Never give your parents grief

It's a pretty solid rain right now in Seattle. We're very close to the I'm always cold season. It doesn't matter how many layers one wears...always a little cold. I'm not complaing, at least not entirely. I can't abide excessive heat, and I believe all of us will be

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Here comes the rain again

It was a dark, windy, and rainy night. Sounds like we're going to get drenched here in the Pacific Northwest. Stay safe everyone! Let's hope it helps with western wildfires. I thought this was a pretty cool description from the National Weather Service [https://www.weather.gov]: > Given that this

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Bremerton is the Wild West

My friend's band, Filth is Eternal [https://filthiseternal.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-a-lie-filth-is-eternal], had a show at The Charleston in Bremerton a few weeks ago. I forgot about the show until the day of. Tick tock, tick tock. You're not going to make that ferry. That bummed me out; tough to

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Don't forget the good

Muddling along in the meh zone. I'm not feeling awesome, but I'm not feeling terrible, either. If things continue like this for a few more days, I'll be grateful. It helps having friends and family who check in on you. Instant morale boost. A friend dropped off sushi, miso soup,

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I feel lousy

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Weekly Roundup

There's really not a weekly roundup. Maybe I'll start one as a way of avoiding too many links. The situation in Afghanistan is scary. I feel terrible for the Afghan people, but I am glad that we are ending our military occupation. My foreign policy days are behind me, so

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Photographer George Forss

Alex Vadukul has a wonderful article in the New York Times about photographer George Forss [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/nyregion/george-forss-dead.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage] . The photos are fantastic, but it's the story about one person's way through this world that I

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Left turn at Portland

I need to hear someone pronounce The Dalles. I think that every time I'm in Portland. I also think 84 towards The Dalles sucks every time I'm in Portland. The traffic on 84 is always terrible. It turns into the start of a beautiful drive after you've put some miles