I took the base photograph to this early the morning of October 31, 2004: our first Halloween out here. While I did later edit this quite a bit, the orange glow in the background was fairly natural. There had been a heavy fog that night, which froze, and as the sun started coming up and the rime started subliming, there was a cold, heavy mist in the air. As my first time in such weather, even in my late thirties, I found it incredible. I’m sure a couple of my neighbors thought I must be crazy to be out in the cold air, photographing frozen weeds, but oh well.

I’m using this to also show you a new plugin I found. I’m also using over on synthaetica.com for the fine art galleries. There are several others out there like it, but the code for this one is phenomenally brief and loads with almost no lag. It’s called Shutter Reloaded, and the cool thing is that it should be overriding even the old image links that popped the old shadowmoon image preview utility.

{of course, now i’m experiencing something with this plugin that didn’t happen at synthaetica.com. click into this post so that it sits alone on a page, and the plugin is working just fine. unfortunately, with the post just being read from the home page, it’s not working right. bah. i suppose it’s not that big of a deal right now, though, and i have other things to work on.}