A photograph, most days

Foto

A personal photo stream. The goal is one photograph every day; we'll see how that goes.

  1. A monitor photographed at an angle, screen glare across it, showing the mcm.1889.ca home page: a pill-shaped badge reading BYTOWN RETURNS SEPTEMBER 26, the headline "Twenty-seven years of chaos.", a paragraph about webfiction released under a Creative Commons licence, and buttons reading "Start with the projects" and "Subscribe". A woman's rain-lit profile fills the right of the screen.
  2. A cream Huacaya alpaca in a black nylon show halter, head and neck filling the frame in hard midday sun, turned in profile with its eyes lowered and half shut, its dense crimped fleece rising over the face into a woolly forelock, with a second animal and blurred livestock pen railing behind
  3. The near corner of a concrete bench slab, far out of focus, cutting diagonally across the lower half of the frame, with a suburban park sharp behind it at dawn: mown grass, an asphalt path curving away, a soccer goal at the left, young staked trees, a playground structure at the right and houses along the skyline under an amber pre-sunrise sky
  4. A close-up of pale yellow-green trifoliate leaves in direct early-afternoon sun, one cluster sharp in the right of the frame with the raised midribs and surface texture caught by the light, the rest of the shrub falling away into a soft wash of the same foliage behind
  5. A pale beige tile with an embossed mark on a wooden desk, two dark tiles fanned behind it, a notebook and pen blurred in the foreground
  6. Rain-beaded asphalt seen from directly above, with a shallow pothole worn through to the darker aggregate beneath and a thin weed growing out of its edge
  7. The photographer's long shadow stretched across sunlit mown grass in low morning sun, one arm raised, with the shadow of a slender young tree beside it and a discarded teal plastic bottle lying in the grass
  8. A weathered split-rail cedar fence along the bank of a still pond at dawn, the water reflecting a pale pink and blue sky, with a low cut-stone wall and evergreens on the far shore and dried seedheads growing up through the rails
  9. The cut end of a dark metal tube against a pale scratched plaster surface, crusted with pale debris where they meet, its shadow thrown hard across the wall by low sunlight
  10. A black and tan hound asleep on a wooden floor in warm lamplight, stretched on its side with its head tipped back, having slid half off a cream fleece bed
  11. Lumpy pink and purple cloud undersides filling the whole frame, lit from below at dawn
  12. A part-eaten flatbread on a white plate under a heap of pea shoots, with prosciutto at its edges and dark balsamic pooled alongside
  13. A close-up of open crochet in thick rust-coloured ribbon yarn, its looped rows running across the frame with daylight showing through the gaps
  14. A dimpled clear glass bowl on an orange wooden table, cracked from rim to base with a shard broken away beside it
  15. A leafy branch in the foreground and a mown field beyond, with young trees and houses fading into fog
  16. A tan and black dog seen from above on a concrete floor, wearing a blue plaid collar patterned with small red fire hydrants
  17. A square crop of the same rainbow, arcing down behind a row of new houses above an overgrown field

“Foto” by MCM, https://mcm.1889.ca/foto.html — licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/