the portable city

by definition, not static


status: archives being slowly restored, comics being relocated, new artwork and writing in the queue


Category: photo


  • Your Cellphone Camera’s Digital Processing Settings and You

    Your Cellphone Camera’s Digital Processing Settings and You

    I am mad about cellphone cameras hiding the processing they do to my photos, and I am glad about software I found that lets me control it and opt in and out.


  • What Format You Might Want To Save Digital Photos In

    What Format You Might Want To Save Digital Photos In

    What format do you recommend I save photographs in? Like raw or jpeg? I don’t know the difference.


  • how i am doing accidental exposure therapy for my fear of bugs

    how i am doing accidental exposure therapy for my fear of bugs

    So I’ve been taking photos of bugs, now that I can trust my phone to not chew up any macro or zoom photography I take, and sharing them onto iNaturalist. it scratches my look I took a photo itch, it scratches my talking about cool things itch, it often tells me what bug I took…


  • macro fishbowl asters

    i have been having a lot of fun making some intentionally messy photos with clip-on macro lenses on my cellphone camera, and trying more and more to get the blown out, bokeh’d background to be a more intentional element. this one feels like it’s showing me some potential!


  • Moss and grasses

    Loved this hike and felt immensely inspired the whole time and yet still wrestled with all the green in the photos. I never understood how people could say green was hard to deal with until I tried to post process digital photos.


  • wall of heavenly green

    Can’t resist a backlit forest! I love this especially because it feels like a Paul Saari or George Outhwaite painting.


  • immortal tiles

    I just love the soft glow of artificial lighting on worn tiles!


  • flaming hot probably

    sunlight! graffiti! one weirdly distracting white sedan!


  • red and yellow and blue and green

    delightfully sunny alleyway


  • glowing concrete

    Visited a beautiful and slightly apocalyptic building at the perfect time of day.


  • cute bike!

    My friend bought the absolute cutest bike and has kindly invited me to photograph it whenever. And I loved the warm light here especially.


  • streetlights

    playing with long exposures and wrangling values after to make things feel more nostalgic.


  • Dusk with Patio Umbrellas

    I love a dramatic sky!


  • The Creek

    Love this creek at golden hour.


  • alleyway photography

    fucking around with extreme colour grading in lightroom and having a very nice time!