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"Are you ok?" I'm actually tired bro. From the bottom of my heart I'm tired

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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

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Virga, the phenomenon of rain not reaching the ground. Virga is produced when rain is falling from the base of the cloud but evaporates in dry air before reaching the ground surface.

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

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Cozy Jon ☕ Commission for @laora-ryn! Thank you again for commissioning me! 💙

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I don’t post anything ever but I saw someone talk about Alice saying “at least it’s not both legs” and headcannoning Sam as an amputee and I’d like to put in my two cents

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...and they were in a band... Oh my god, they were in a band! Commission for @paperthinrevolutionary for @inaweofdiana for their Ex Libris Anarchia band AU! Thank you again for commissioning me! 💖

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it’s like i always say: fuck

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Be ace, be aware redraw (?) of last year's post

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some days be like "im doing my silly little tasks:-)" while others are "im doing my silly little tasks:-("

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i hope you accidentally jump down a ledge in pokemon and you have to go through grass to get back up

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I know nikola is like. Very scary skin-stealing clown and all and she probably wears someone else's skin on the daily but also i think she makes bowling pin noises when toppled

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It’s finals season so I have no time for anything besides doodles. But cmoonnnn. CMOOONN

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this is every single piece of fan content for tma

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Owning a cat is such a funny concept. You can just go "hello, I would like to have my house haunted by a strange little man who will not speak in words, but may sometimes make demands communicated through mysterious riddles composed of knocking things over and petty thefts, and stares at me like an idiot for not understanding why it was necessary to shove all my socks inside the couch", and just make it happen. You get yourself a little house ghoul and for the next 12 years you know exactly what went klonk in the night.

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It'd be like that sometimes

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Season 1 polaroid

It's okay, they are all fine

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