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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

... I'll let you in on a secret. Big people are exactly the same as little people. They're selfish, squabbling children whose motivations are jealousy and greed. No one becomes big when the hit adulthood. They just become better at hiding how small they are.

—Jonathan Rosenberg