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I now have a beautiful new digital mirrorless camera + gorgeous telephoto lens to take on adventures! But I cannot willingly do so without a protective case.
What I’d like is a very lightweight sling or messenger style bag that lets me keep my camera assembled, so I can easily pull it out and then pop it back in depending on terrain, transit, weather, etc. Something that doesn’t look too high tech would be nice, but I definitely am more worried about padding, weatherproofing, etc. than looks. If it’s big enough to also carry some sketching supplies, that’s a win, but not my first concern.
I’m gonna try and hit up some camera shops downtown in a week or two to fulfill this quest.
Pictured: the leather case I somehow still have for my dad’s 1970s nikkormat 
My partner has a weatherproof sling/crossbody bag that also carries his skateboard, very similar to this newer model I found, which is an amazingly targeted piece of equipment that also fits his camera! I’m pretty sure he could use the skateboard bits to carry a tripod instead, which is just old fashioned good design in my books. Anyways, what have you found, what do you love, what do you recommend keeping an eye out for?
thanks!
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Well, starting to. This is where I realize a little ref would have gone a long way.But we can probably get somewhere pleasing, even if not accurate, if I keep going.
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The texture on the paper in this MUJI sketchbook is so pleasing!
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I love how they start to go red in the end of summer, they are underrated ornamental beauties!
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This palette really holds you accountable to relative colour! But also: you can use every pencil crayon in your possession and it will still feel perfectly harmonious.
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Twenty four colours including white, so, the 23 larger more uniform swatches at the top are the full line of pencil crayons. the rest of the swatches are me tearing blending and mixing, erasing, or making up miniature Zorn pallets of black, red, yellow and white, using different reds and yellows.
it’s a very limited palette, not just in color and saturation but also in value, with really only a few proper darks. I don’t know why the entire range is limited to this palette, but I am finding the challenge of working within it to be really fun and would recommend giving it a shot!
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these are the Derwent Drawing line of pencil crayons, and I’m having a lot of fun with them in my cheap MUJI sketchbooks!
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so when I reformatted my website, one of the things that I wanted to do was make it possible to post casually to this, with a similar energy to how I used to post on social media. you know, with the hope of getting myself free from social media and not simply just falling back down that slippery slope into blue sky and who knows what else I’ll join in the near future, etc. and so, when I did the reformatting, I made in my mind two key categories of posts: structural posts which work functionally as load-bearing writing or load-bearing collections of images, making the site make sense etc. and then the other category was building block posts, which I thought I would be able to collect into structural posts more.
but the problem is, I didn’t really set from rules for myself around what a building block post is, and how it’s supposed to work. I think I need to think a lot more about what posts would constitute a feed style posting for me, and then how could I make those useful to myself in future as potential collections, instead of trying to go with my gut every time.
not particular big website thoughts today but, I am still wrestling with this and it seemed worth writing down.
has anyone else struggled with and found any solutions with regards to casual posting versus full on blogging? I miss sharing casual low stakes the thoughts and studio photos and so forth. I’m really trying to figure out how to enable myself to do that again.
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I’ve thought about this a lot since leaving Mastodon and Twitter, and choosing not to join Blueksy.
Structurally, I feel like it’s helpful to have a separate custom post type (in WordPress parlance) for quick notes, but my bigger hangup is wrestling with whether having a space for quick, random thoughts is actually helpful or desirable for me. A lot of microblogging ultimately felt overly performative, and I think it might be better to just have a notepad (whether digital or analogue) for the quick thoughts, which, indeed, can then be collected into somewhere more presentable/coherent in a blog.
A casual photo/image feed is probably more desirable for me than a text-focused one. Inevitably, I’ll end up rambling in there, too, but at least it’s focused around an image, usually.
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