I’m in the middle of an epic essay, but a bit blocked. So, here’s a Peeping Pacer in the meantime.

This is my new Facebook “cover” photo. I should probably retire this as a subject, but I just cant quit you, Bear Muffler! I gelled a couple Canon 430s with Rosco gel “Canary Yellow” and put them around behind the car. I can’t find my radio transmitters at the moment so I used the ST-E2 — and since that’s IR, I needed line-of-sight to the flashes. Else, I could have hidden the lights behind the wheels. But, I didn’t mind the little sparkly lights on the ground in the end. This is actually seven different exposures. I imported them into Photoshop, “load files into stack”, “automatically align”, then set the blending mode on each layer to “Lighter Color.” The process takes about sixty seconds.

For the precise, the dimensions of the Facebook cover photo need to be 830 by 315 in pixels.

I hit the icy sidewalks of JTown today on a specific Top Secret photographic mission. I had my M2 and three rolls of film. While I was finishing up at my undisclosed destination, I discovered that I had actually only brought two rolls of film. Curses. And, of course that meant that I’d see lots of stuff on my walk home. So, I got all cameraphonerated and took lots of Instagrams and Instagramish stuff.

Stay tuned for the film project soon, assuming it develops okay.

BONUS, yet another BEAR MUFFLER photo:

Happy Wednesday! Here are three recent black & whites that have something to say about horizontality.

“Bridges to Nowhere”

Camera: iPhone 4