olivermoss | Snowflake Challenge Day 1

Challenge #1 : In your own space, introduce yourself!

What am I again?

I spend a lot of time doing photography and I was just reading a composition book for fun. Evaluating things around me to see if there is a shot is part of my brain at this point. I do things like hike a few miles in the rain and come back with this one shot:

From this gallery on my personal site

I rarely shoot viewpoints. I shoot trails, the small details that makes landscapes unique, the details that make cities awesome, and am also guilty of lots of shots of my feet. If you want to see more, my personal website is here and some of the photography posts I've made on DW are indexed here along with a few other things.

I am also someone who has been in fandom a loooong time. These days I am mostly into older, obscure fandoms. I am currently rewatching The Sentinel and working on Buckaroo Banzai fan art, so, yeah. That is how current my fandoming is right now.

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Very intriguing photography. I like it! You make me want to dig my digital camera out although I only seem to manage pictures of my thumb.

Confession: I have all 4 seasons of The Sentinel on DVD and love the fanfic. I think it might be time for a rewatch too. :)

Thanks! You should, it's fun to have your own pictures of the place you live. I wish I'd takes more before this city changed as much as it did.

I kept looking for a new canon to watch and realized what I really wanted was something just like The Sentinel, so I gave up and decided to re-watch it :)

Awesome photos :)

Thank you!

Gorgeous photos ♥

Thanks!

Those photos are very cool!

Also, The Sentinel! *nostalgia strikes*

Thank you!

I want to be into new canons, but my brain just wants 90s style urban fantasy.

Hello! Stopping by from the Snowflake challenge. Wow! Your photos are stunning. May I ask, what do you mean by "I rarely shoot viewpoints"? Photography-ignorant here, I'm afraid. I would have thought everything would be a viewpoint shot, through your lens.

I'm an old fandom person, too, although there are a few new shows that I love. TS was an old favorite. Hmm. *eyes DVDs*

Thank you!

What I mean by 'viewpoints' is that if I hike out to ridge with a view over a gorge or hike out to the top of a mountain, that shot is rarely a 'keeper' for me. The photo from my hike that I post is more likely to be tiny white mushrooms growing alongside the trail.

Taking pictures of the trail is more interesting to me, and more of a challenge. I need to think about composition. I need to find places where the depth of the shot will read correctly in a 2-d image.

I keep trying to be into new canons, but my brain wants 90s urban fantasy. Also, right now the interesting canons tend to be in Chinese, so I can't working on inking while watching. I need a canon to be English or Japanese so I can look away from the screen do a few lines of inking then let those lines dry.

Cool, thank you for the explanation.

Ooh, and thank you for the link to the inking you do--wow, that's gorgeous as well. So, yes, continue with the English-language 90s urban fantasy if it means you keep doing that. *g*

Thank you :)

I have just started a Sentinel rewatch myself, just coming to the end of S1. It's ridiculous how utterly gleeful the opening credits make me. And I really need me a Blair Sandburg icon... hmmm *pokes DW*

I also should really have a Blair icon. I am about halfway through season 1. So far it's better than I remember.

Wonderful photography! I love the gnarled root path.

Thanks!

that forest path is stunning

and that one lil white flower with all the green and blue

Thank you! It's one of my favorites.

Happy New Year!! I particularly love the photo with the moss-covered tree.

Happy New Year! Thank you :)

I love your photography! Something I'd like to get more into is photography. I started a while ago but I didn't fully dedicate myself to learning the craft of it.

Also - silly question - how would you describe Sentinel? I've seen it pop up and around my fandoms -- especially Stargate Altantis. :)

Thank you!

Keep shooting, it's fun to have your own pictures. I run a comm on DW called

photographyon. It's a bit slow sometimes, but when people post we do talk. I should poke them a bit and get some convos going.

The Sentintel was a fairly obscure show, except in online fandom. In slash circles, it was an early mega fandom. It's about a cop with superhuman senses who needs this long haired hippy academic to help him control them. The hippy wins up crashing at him place and just sort of never leaves for reasons never explained. It was also a popular canon to cross over things with and 'Sentinel AUs' are still a thing.

I think 2020 LittleLostCat is gonna try and pick up the old camera again. I need to get my DSR checked out -- the auto focus on one of my lenses is messed up :(

I'll have to see if I can find Sentinel -- and that's where I've seen it. There's a big SGA/Sentinel AU thing and I haven't read them because I don't know anything really about Sentinel. I feel like I'm missing out! haha

Hullo! Here fron

snowflake_challenge.

Lovely to learn more about you :-) Your photographs are beautiful.

Also been in fandom a while! Through the days of forums, yahoo & LJ...where does the time go?

I have only seen one episode of The Sentinel, but love the fandom Sentinel/Guide trope. My goal is to watch the actual TV series this year.

Is it okay to subscribe to you? =^_^= Obviously no need to add back :_)

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Hello! Thank you :)

The time does fly! Why don't I have more fannish projects done by now?

The TV is a very mixed bag at times, but so far Season 1 is better than I remember. I know there are some real trainwreck episodes later on. It was an early mega fandom and shaped some fic tropes still used. So, I'd be interested in your reactions to the source material :)

Yes, and added back!

Why don't I have more fannish projects done by now?

Ditto on that sentiment! Life and time seems to flutter past quick as a hummingbird's wings. Lol

I have heard that some of the later Sentinel episodes were...not so good, but hopefully the earlier seasons remain interesting! Happy viewing :-)
I will definitely share my reactions when I view the source material, I look forward to your reactions as you progress :-D

It is fascinating that one show has had such a huge impact on fandom yet isn't better known.

Thank you, added!

It's fascinating how it's both obscure and kind of a big deal?

I've been writing down some notes and will post about it at a point. I did a canon review to do a giftfic last year and I think I picked the most train-wrecky episodes to review. One of the really WTF episodes also had a good original song written and recorded for it so I always start there.

Your photos are beautiful, the first one is striking! I also really like your abandoned places photo gallery.

Thank you so much!

Hi! 🙋🏻‍♀️ Awesome photos, really love them.

I should hunt the Sentinel show from somewhere bc I like the fanficans would love to actually watch the source material...

Thank you!

Now that the DVDs exist, there should be high quality rips somewhere. For a while the episodes kept popping up on YT, but then getting taken down.

I’ll keep looking, then.

Thanks for reminding me of your lovely photography!

Glad you enjoyed it :)

I adore your work. That first shot and the cliff flower are my favorites of what's here.

Isn't Buckaroo Banzai a Constant Fandom of yours?

Thank you! I am very glad I got the flower shot, it's a very me shot.

Yeah, Buckaroo Banzai is something that's stayed with me. I didn't expect that to happen, but it has.