Smokey 1500 hr (Thursday 23rd January 2020)

After the cold blue skies of the weekend and Monday it was back to the fog, low light and drizzle. I did take a few shots yesterday, including a couple of a glossy riverbank rat eating from a stuffed full Sainsbury bag that some lovely local had discarded in the town centre. Unfortunately my bridge camera couldn't cope with the poor light and the results were too soft and grainy to publish.

Smokey was photographed in available light on the kitchen table this afternoon. It has been 12 days since he last featured on Blip so it seemed time.

L.
23.1.2020 (1722 hr)

Blip #3130 (#2880 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2020 #011/265 + #005/100 Extras
Day #3590 (811 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Smokey #505 (2020 #003)
LOTD #2259 (#2100 + 159 in archived blips)

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DMC-LX100 M4/3 compact with +2 close-up lens

Smokey series   

Old Forge series
Macro series

Lozarhythm Of The Day:  
Dana Gavanski - Catch ( (2019)
I've been hearing this a lot on the radio and each time thought I had been listening to Cate Le Bon, from Wales. Mark Radcliffe remarked on the similarity when he played it on Sunday.
Dana Gavanski is a singer/songwriter currently living between Belgrade and Montreal. Born in Vancouver to a Serbian family, but relocating to Montreal to attend university, Dana originally planned to pursue a career in film. However, she shifted her attention back to music when her then ex-partner left her his guitar before moving to NYC. Having known only how to play Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez, Dana picked up a Travis Picking technique book and started re-learning how to play. When in the Summer of 2016, she took a job with her father as a producer’s assistant on a horror film in the Laurentians, she made enough to focus solely on developing her music for a year. With that came her first EP, Spring Demos in 2017. Dana followed this up with a single for Full Time Hobby in 2019, One By One, produced by Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Lump with Laura Marling) in his Margate studio, and an equally infectious piece of psychedelic folk in the form of second single Catch, again produced by Mike Lindsay.  Catch is “a conversation with the gods of creativity, an attestation to the daily struggle to be inspired and how not to lose direction” said Dana.