I haven't been posting much photography because I haven't been feeling very inspired to go out and go places. Another factor is a shortage of money, so I'm sparing every single drop of gas in my car.

I still haven't bought a new flash for the camera, but I'm debating whether I want to or to buy a lens with a 2.8+ aperture so that a flash would be pretty much useless. A higher aperture would make my photos much more vibrant, real, and emotional without having to worry about modifying brightness, contrast, or colour (if they're good enough) because of the natural light and clarity that would seep in. Also, for instance, when I try to take candle pictures, they come out grainy, even messing with the ISo doesn't make it better, so a higher aperture would take out the graininess. It's a good $2.000 for a lens like that, though, so it's either that or a $200 flash. Hm.

I'm a few pages away from finishing "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walker Miller. It's by far one of the better sci-fi genre books I've read. I usually read older stuff, like Dostoevsky and Goethe, but my history professor recommended to me this book. It's a 3 part book, all of it taking place in post-nuclear-apocalyptic earth. Part 1 involves the "dark ages" a few centuries after the near-extermination of humanity, Part 2 is the Renaissance, and Part 3 is a more improved and technologically superior version of present day earth. The basis of the book is that monks have preserved all of the knowledge from the pre-apocalypse civilization (the one we live in now) and have constantly copied and reproduced the knowledge, including blueprints, physics books, everything you can think of, in order to be used by the future generations. I won't reveal how the book ends, but let's just say that there's a huge moral to the story, that being that history vividly repeats itself, and that man is infinitely ignorant of the mistakes of history.

I start my new job tomorrow. It's a manual labouring position on the local Air Force base, so I'll be mowing lawns, painting, washing stuff, but at $14.50/hour full time, I'm not complaining. It ends on 30. September, though, which means I'll have to find something new. I'm looking into the state patrol as an option, but I'm not making a definite decision until I make complete inquiries.

That's about it in a nutshell. And thank you everyone for subscribing, favouriting, and commenting!

-Erich