Just to make my view out of the 5th floor window over a construction site even better, the sun has decided to reflect its winter low-angle self off all the upper floor windows and glass-faced buildings in the area.

So as much as I enjoy the bright afternoon sunlight flooding the room, I’m forced to pull down the blinds as a dozen or more specular reflections hit me in the face starting around 3PM and lasting until sunset.

On the other hand, the moon has become sausage-shaped.

So I didn’t use a tripod when taking this. The buildings managed to smear in a believable way, so the moon just looks crazy. I probably could have achieved much the same effect by holding the shutter open for an hour while keeping the camera still.

Well, the last good day for MITHenge in November was today. I didn’t get to it the previous good days (around Nov. 9th to today) because most of the weekend was cloudy and I… well, forgot.

So here’s my best attempt with my not-too-calibrate-able Kodak camera. The quality and visibility of the effect is poor because

1. I did not have any sort of stabilization device, and it turns out the ground isn’t really smooth

2. About 80,000 other people were present and situated down the hallway.

3. There’s a fucking piece of paper right smack in the middle of my frame!