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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-11-2024, 02:12 PM  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 128
Views: 2,288
Thanks all. The CD role was really good for maybe the first three years … maybe 2 1/2? … but increasingly it was becoming all the things you note.

Muggins here felt so good on the weekend I started to second-guess myself … “maybe I could stay in the role… it might be ok …” Very quickly put the kibosh on that. “Don’t be a fool. You’re feeling better *because you chucked it in*; don’t mess that up”. xP

Happy for you others having made similar decisions. It can be too easy to lose why we started something in the first place. - And what we’re best at.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-10-2024, 04:00 PM  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 128
Views: 2,288
First day today of not being the clinical director.

First day in ages I’ve taken my camera with me.

… not truly connected though; didn’t have leftovers for lunch, so I ended up with space in my bag. xP

Feeling good though; was the right decision - and maybe I will get my head more back into photography
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-08-2024, 03:46 PM  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 128
Views: 2,288
Nice one. I love the photo
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-07-2024, 05:58 PM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 99
Views: 2,054
Another month with the DA 40 mm limited. It's fantastic; I'm not xP

I missed a few days O_O and did not keep up at all at all with posting or anything else (even processing and uploading I only finished off the last week and a half this morning, a week into March).

I still love the lens to bits; the focal length feels pretty right just about all of the time for me, and there is often a feel, a rendering, a something about the image that I think elevates it a bit.

I do wish it focused a bit closer sometimes, but we can't have everything.

Rather than spamming threads from a fortnight ago, the album is here: Single in February 2024 - HD Pentax-DA 1:2.8 40mm limited | Flickr
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-05-2024, 08:27 PM  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 128
Views: 2,288
I missed three days last month [emoji19] Not best pleased, but I’m past being upset about it. Probably helped that it was more than just one day, tbh

Sounds like a gnarly day
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-28-2024, 10:16 PM  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 128
Views: 2,288
I’ll give it my best shot - but bear in mind that’s not very good atm.

Carrying on with the DA 40 limited
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-25-2024, 12:28 PM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 99
Views: 2,054
Urrrk … what a bugger - though I’m glad the cleanup went well. Rest up and take much care of yourself and that hip.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-13-2024, 12:16 PM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 99
Views: 2,054
Thanks Gary 8)

We’re none of us really winning at the moment, it seems [emoji57]
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-05-2024, 11:11 PM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 99
Views: 2,054
>_< Flickr upload fail means that I've just wasted half my train trip on attempted posting for the first five days of February :-/

And now we're about to hit tunnels - so I give up.

Grumble.

That's the word of the last wee while, actually - though for different reasons...
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-03-2024, 03:00 PM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
January



Missed two days O_O

Lens - fantastic
Photography - ok
Challenge performance - abysmal

:(

Ah well, on to February
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-30-2024, 12:27 PM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
I do have a kindle, and it’s great … but books that I really like, I prefer in paper. The feel, and the experience of reading. It may be foolish, it is really, but there it is. I did consider getting the rest of the series electronically, but decided against it xP
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-28-2024, 05:48 PM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 99
Views: 2,054
I should commit. Missing a couple of days doesn’t mean it’s all over xP

Still DA 40 limited
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-28-2024, 05:46 PM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
It kinda is. Can’t fit the camera in my bag because I’ve got a great big book there - so I’m not bringing it to work. That then means photography ends up less in my head overall.

Add Baldur’s Gate to that, and I’m just lost xP
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-28-2024, 04:26 PM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
Gah! Missed again (yesterday). Clearly my heart/head ain’t in it
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-25-2024, 04:08 PM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
Buggeration! Missed yesterday (not even an iPhone photo of anything to maintain my overall streak). Dammit.

Didn't have my camera with me through the day, which was ok - intended to take something in the evening. I was on-call in the evening. Everybody was drink-drinky ice-y ice-y and I was getting a phone call every few minutes at some points. Never more than 20 minutes between calls. Utterly bonkers, and I didn't even think about photography.

Dammit.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-19-2024, 11:40 PM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
Yes, my parents read them (well, the first several) many years ago. When I told my mother that I had discovered that Brandon Sanderson finished them off she got rather excited, and thought she might even have another go.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-18-2024, 01:33 PM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
Book 3: The Dragon Reborn

I knew of the series but had never read it. Daughter gave me the first three books for Christmas, and they are sooooo good. First was great; second was unbelievable; I’m about 1/3 through this one and it’s fantastic so far.

Time to get the next few in the series.

---------- Post added 19th Jan 2024 at 07:33 AM ----------




Doh! xP

Late night, dark, phone, bad eyes …
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-18-2024, 04:11 AM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
I’m even late getting to the halfway post! :(

Still shooting and still loooooving the DA30 limited … but not taking my camera with me to work; combination of ++rain, and wanting space in my bag to carry the Wheel of Time books that are taking pretty much every moment I have outside work and Baldur’s Gate xP

But the lens still delights, and feels just right somehow
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-11-2024, 01:31 PM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
How decidedly odd. I’m glad there’s nothing with camera (or other lenses)
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-11-2024, 03:40 AM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
O_O Bogus!

Any further development?
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-03-2024, 12:38 PM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
I’m thinking 2 or 3 years time and I start to cut down my days; probably a slow progression then to retirement in a decade and a bit.

Not like me blimmin’ father: turns eighty next year and reckons he might retire then.

… I’ll believe it when I see it. xP
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-31-2023, 03:48 PM  
Game Single in January 2024
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 133
Views: 2,884
Indeed I did. It was brilliant. I really enjoyed using the lens for so long, but also think I really got to grips with the lens.

I'm intending the same with the 40 mm limited for all of 2024.

Thus, naturally I'm taking a photo with one lens every day, so I'll be in for January - though I make no promises about my participation :( I will seek to do better than I did in December.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-30-2023, 11:47 PM  
Game Single in December 2023
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 75
Views: 1,705
End of the month - just about (few hours to go here)

Photography has been ok to pretty good.

Processing has lagged a long way behind

Uploading has been worse

Participation has been utterly dismal.

But the HD DA 40/2.8 limited continues to delight. There is honestly not a single thing about it I don’t love (saving the fact that it is not magically capable of being simultaneously super-wide and monstrous telephoto but being the same tiny size and quality and all …). Any photographic deficiencies are definitely mine. And it can impart a really attractive quality to even rather bland and uninspired photos; there’s a depth even to high-ISO and potentially flat images. Just fab. My new favourite lens for sure.

(And I’ll make an effort to get the rest of the month processed and posted… I might even put the best in here when I’ve done so.)

Edit ... ok, my faves of the month:

Sully featured a few times; these are the better:


Sullivan by Occasionally Focused, on Flickr


Satisfied Sully by Occasionally Focused, on Flickr

A few flowers; the best couple:


Peonies by Occasionally Focused, on Flickr


Flowers by Occasionally Focused, on Flickr

And finishing with a parrot:


Prince by Occasionally Focused, on Flickr

Glorious lens.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-17-2023, 07:48 AM  
Game Single in December 2023
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 75
Views: 1,705
Mid-month check-in ...

Photography that is, not blethering on again about work...

And specifically this lens and how it's treating me? Still in love https://youtu.be/X4Qqq7N6td4?si=rlOYznltsDI9FWNT
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-13-2023, 09:15 PM  
Game Single in December 2023
Posted By Tsuken
Replies: 75
Views: 1,705
Budget … our service is always millions *under* budget. The main hospitals are way over. Right now there’s a huge push to improve the financial position of the Health District, and super-frustratingly, our service is getting squeezed just as hard as the hospitals which are the ones over-budget.

Doing my tiny brain in. Def not the best recruiting environment, despite all my vacancies.

And ours ain’t gonna change *at least* till next financial year.

Says Ranty-McWhingey-Moan
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