Tonight I was feeling sad and uncomfortable with myself, and so I thought I'd walk down to the lake. In spite of living in the city proper, my neighborhood is very dark at night and fairly quiet, too. The neighborhood is very safe, and I encountered a number of young folks, just biking or skating down the dark streets. I like going down to the lake- before they changed the flight patterns and when we were first getting to know each other, Star5 and I would watch the planes circle the lake. The walk there, and the lake itself are rather dark, almost entirely black, though you can hear the frogs and ducks, and a distant passing airplane in some of the video.

The thing I noticed most was how much better one's eyes are than what my camera picks up- I would stop to take photograph of a shadow, and would get pitch black, or try to take video of the light on a hedge's leaves, and find that there again, was barely anything to be seen. I like having a dark neighborhood- it's easier to sleep at night. On the other hand, if you go in the other direction from my house, there is a train station a few blocks. I thought it might be a nice contrast, to take some video of that, too, as it's so well lit.

I was going to wait to do this task when I went to visit family in South Dakota, though, the outcome would have been similar, but with footsteps on gravel rather than on sidewalks, and probably no ducks or airplanes.

I couldn't manage to embed the video, so I'm making a link to the collection of videos. Really, these are the highlight of the task, as everything is so visually quiet, it's nice to hear so much going on.

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Now for a moment of conversation.

This isn't a particularly great completion. It's a completion, sure, the night around here is about as deep and dark as it gets in a city, I've got some pictures that if you increase the white balance, you'll be able to make out what it is the titles describe, but otherwise, look pretty much like night does. It's not something I'd vote for. In fact, it's not really something I want to be submitting.

However, it's been posited that I might be talking the talk without walking the walk, and I'm waiting on collaborators to write up other tasks, so here's this- a little bit of real-world inky. I get sad, I walk down to the lake where there are frogs and ducks.