CotM: The Nor’Easter Comes & FIREPLUG

This leafy lookin’ fellah, blown up onto the patio in the storm.
…while paused at the extreme closeup position before zooming out again. Here’s the new script.

Anyway, even the constant drizzly rain cannot quench the fires of the foliage changing colors as we round into Fall. These once emerald-green hedges have suddenly caught alight despite the soaking they’re getting. Good thing there’s a FIREPLUG nearby! :D

This poor fellah, caught in the crossfire…

Updated: September 28, 2026 — 3:16 pm

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  1. Ah, where there’s a will there’s a way.
    I used to put plastic bags over my camera and make a hole in it so I could fasten in under the UV filter behind the lens hood when I was in college. Later it came in handy in the fire service until I got my Nikonos II.

    Stand by for (maybe) a blog post. I took my SX 10 is for a walk this morning. Now to play with CHDK.
    Google thinks this post is already 6 days old.

    1. Superb! Can’t wait to see what you make with it!

      I’ve got a new version of the Zoomy script with new parameters for adding extra frames at beginning/end, per-step extra frames, logging to a textfile and soon, a fade to white in and out. (:

    1. Not sure if this worked right. Just links to the same post.

  2. y’all have classy fire hydrants (hadn’t heard of the term Fireplug – Johnny Pump?) there in Connecticut. And your neighbor has a dapper hat to match…

    1. Heh, yuh – designed for the environment – in the desert we had short, fat yellow hydrants because you didn’t have to worry about finding them in snowbanks. Here, they’re tall, red and have little reflectors on tall poles attached to them.

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