This photo was taken of one side of a fairly mundane tunnel at a building close to where I work. Then in Photoshop I cropped it, removed an extraneous aura of light that was separate from the central concentration of light. Then I mirrored the image, put the two pieces together and viola: a spooky light at the end of a tunnel. Now, if I could just remember whether I should walk towards it, or run away…

Copyright Scott English, 2007.
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I’m no longer surprised by the weather in Dallas, Texas. Initially, upon arrival to this state it was nothing but sweltering heat, for a couple of years. I could deal with that. Melbourne, Victoria was a close approximation, from my homeland. Except that in Melbourne you could count on the crunch of ice under your feet in winter. That didn’t seem to happen, in Dallas, except for a couple of days at the peak of winter.

This year has a weird air about it and seems to be acting appropriately so - it snows one day, then is god gorgeously beautiful a couple of days later, only to about face and chill you to the bone the next.

Above is a picture of the chillier side of the equation.

It’s like a student ill prepared for an exam, and not knowing what it’s doing, picks a random answer for each successive multiple choice question. Which certainly makes it interesting when I wake up each day and peer outside the window to see what’s going on, though I’d prefer a nice breezy summer’s warmth over a random interesting day given the option. Nice hammock weather, mmm, yes please.

Weather aside I am far from happy with the results of the picture above. I think it fails pretty aptly at capturing the strange nature of experiencing snow in the middle of this randomly oscillating Dallas, Texas winter.

Ah well, perhaps next time.