Well, you could listen to fingernails on a washboard 
I donât listen to zydeco all that often, but there are times when itâs the only thing that can pull me out of a funk.
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Thatâs probably my problem⌠Maybe I wallow in a funk instead of getting out of it! 
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When I was really young, I recall occasional visits to a relative who played the âsqueeze boxâ. Heâd take it out and pump through a few songs, all the guests singing along in French. Iâd cry, my mom recallsâŚ
Zydeco and regular Cajun music are two separate things, the distinction muddied by the common influence of the accordion. Small-town dance halls hosted Friday night âfai-do-dosâ, where the children were put to bed on blankets in the rear while their parents danced to the music played by a pick-up band. Accordingly, most Cajun songs are 4/4 time, with an occasional 3/4 waltz (or worse) to class things up. Zydeco doesnât descend much out of 4/4âŚ
I donât care too much for either genre, but hearing the old songs tickles the recall of a simple youthâŚ
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Maybe I was adversely influenced by trying to eat my dinner at Prejeanâs in Lafayette, but with a speaker in one ear blasting accordion in 3/4 time over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over⌠
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Try this piece, played by Ryan Corbett. He comes up to Pitlochry quite often, it is stunning to watch his finger work.
âŚor watch Alexander Dimitriev play Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor on the bayan. Wow. Both are virtuosos.
The most successful shots on Fediverse from my latest autumn series:
The second one is the most successful but I kind of think itâs overedited.
Not sure which one is my personal favorite. Check out the others on pixelfed.social/betazoid or gallery.simon-a.info
Edit: maybe a question - since I am bad at interpreting my own works: what comes into you mind if you see my photos? Good emotions/feeling? What do you think do they express? I kind of hope that seeing my pics makes people happy, and myself too.
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I like the first one best. They leave me with good feelings, but I canât exactly say why. And you apparently love shooting into the sun, which I generally donât like, but yours come out well.
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The leaves still have some color but theyâre less supple, more curled, crunchy and thereâs more air around them on the trees. Wonât be long until theyâre on the ground and dull grey winter will set in. With that in mind I went out today during the harsh midday sun and shot a few frames. Not much to keep, but here are a couple of so-so snaps.
Golden leaves in the bright sunshine
Green and orange on the water (extreme crop)
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Yeah, when I see othersâ shots with lens flare, I usually think it looks good. When I see it in my shots, I think it looks bad. Wonder why that isâŚ
I really like the second take, lovely how these colors are playing with the shadows 
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3/4 Backlight is an old, and highly effective cinematographerâs trick. Best if you keep the sun out of the frame however in my opinion. Need to be careful about flaring as well.
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Yesterday, some snow and a Cathedral in Helsinki. #darktable
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Wow
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I like the weather effect, gives it a painted feeling, like brushstrokes 
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Indeed. Makes the case for getting out there (with charged batteries) when the weather is shitâŚ
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So it does. I visioned this image in my head when taking it and darktable helped me do the rest. Had to use six instance of color balance rgb to get these (overly cooked to my usual liking) colors.
And you need to be quite fast some times. 5min later snow storm was over and image would have been completely different.
This thread was actually on my mind when I left for a short work trip yesterday. Took my camera with me to get some photos during that trip. Usually on this time of year itâs dark when I go to work and it is dark when Iâm back home and I have no motivation to take any pictures.
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I agree.
Here in the UK, itâs almost always raining. And yet, in almost every photo Iâve taken, itâs a lovely sunny day.
Getting out there when the weatherâs not good (and, hence, a lot more often!) is high on my new-yearâs-resolution list. But what can I say? I hate getting my feet wet 
(mind you, it doesnât help when your gear isnât weather proof, so Iâll hide behind that somewhat more exceptable excuse for now).
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I need a life I guess.
Another early rise, hour drive each way and for what? To shoot a few bare cypress trees silhouetted against the sunrise sky. Iâm getting desperate! I was hoping some fall color was left and there a little here and there. However, to get much flexibility in composition at a cypress lake, you need to be in a boat. I think Iâve already basically exhausted the vantage points and major compositions at this lake (although of course light and atmosphere are infinite). I hope to be proven wrongâŚ
Done with the usual suspects â My consumer grade Canon DSLR, old glass, mostly ART and a little AP.
Early sunrise silhouette
Later sunrise silhouette
The Committee
UhhâŚ
A pocket of color
I also shot a 7 frame pano of the same view but this looks better. Still, with the foreground trees having the exact same color, texture and light as the background trees, it was exceedingly difficult to get any separation. I think I was only very minimally successful in that regard. This is probably a classic example of âa nice view doesnât always make a nice photo.â
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