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zoom the light fantastic

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Vancouver, 2002.07.12

In my early thirties, I was unemployed and living in Vancouver in the hiring doldrums after 9/11. I'd go out in the evenings with my camera and try things.

I once posted this photo online and some people refused to believe that I made it by "zooming" the lens. They insisted that I'd somehow edited it.

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rand()m quote

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

—Frank Wilhoit