Doug Jones
Doug Jones

  • Everyday 006

    A colorful mural on a brick wall featuring a surreal design of eyes, mouths, and bright abstract shapes. The background has a gradient of warm and cool colors, with a cracked pavement in the foreground.

  • Everyday 005

    Colorful autumn trees with red and orange leaves against a bright blue sky with a few clouds.

  • Two photos on the theme of “decay.”

    An old, rusted metal structure is overtaken by vegetation in an overgrown area. A large orange and smaller greenish decaying pumpkins with carved faces are sitting on grass surrounded by fallen leaves.

  • Sticker Spotter in honor of @maique!

    Auto-generated description: A sticker features an image of a thumb-shaped fin in water with the words THUMB FIN above it.

  • Everyday 004

    A silhouette of a large cell tower against a cloudy sky, surrounded by trees and building outlines.

  • Everyday 003

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  • Starting a new photography series: Everyday

    I’m starting a new photography project I’m calling “Everyday”. The goal of this project is to challenge myself to showcase the locations, scenes, and objects that I see every day. I’m hoping this will be a fun way to practice photography. I’ll also be posting these as a series on Glass if you’d like to follow along there. Here on the blog, I’ll be using the 📷: Everyday category to organize these posts.

    Everyday 001: A colorful, empty tennis court is surrounded by trees and a stone wall.

    Everyday 002: A rusty chain-link gate with the word CLAY in large letters stands amidst fallen leaves, trees, and cemetary in the background.

  • A few photos from a hike around Arabia Mountain, Georgia. 📷

    Auto-generated description: A sunlit forest scene with tall trees casts shadows on the ground beside a calm lake. Auto-generated description: A calm lake is bordered by a line of trees with autumn foliage under a clear blue sky. Auto-generated description: A serene lake is surrounded by trees with autumn foliage, reflecting on the calm water.

    These are some of the first photos from my new Fujifilm X100VI. I’m very excited about this camera, I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.

  • I returned to Glass just in time for their Series feature to launch for everyone! I gave it a try and I really like how it works. Also, it’s nice how they integrated displaying series in the various feeds. Here’s my first series showing some photos from Italy’s Puglia region from my trip earlier this year.

  • Finished reading: Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod 📚

  • Atlanta United! I can’t believe it!! ⚽️

  • And, of course, I’m thinking about potentially purchasing new camera gear…What do folks think of the Fujifilm X100VI? What appeals to me about it is a relatively compact format, with a viewfinder, and great color processing without much need for post editing. 📷

  • After a long time away, I’m getting back into Glass for photo sharing. Check out my profile!

  • Shenmue on Dreamcast

    Shenmue is one of the first games that I’m revisiting on my Dreamcast. Originally released in 1999, Shenmue is an open-world RPG/life simulation set in 1980s Japan. It was the most expensive game ever developed at the time and I think it shows.

    When I originally played Shenmue, I remember being blown away by the level of detail and that every NPC has voiced dialogue (the English voice actors weren’t great…but I don’t think I cared much at the time). The world has a realistic day/night cycle and people and shops follow realistic patterns. Sometimes, you’ll need to enter a shop or restaurant and it doesn’t open until a certain time, but unlike a lot of modern games you can’t enter a menu and pass the time. Instead, you must wait or kill time in game. Thankfully one of the early areas has an arcade where you can spend in-game money to play classic Sega games like Space Harrier (which was also developed by Shenmue’s designer, Yu Suzuki).

    Playing Shenmue today, I think the graphics and game design holds up fairly well. But it’s definitely a different approach to games of this type. The pace is slow. You have no choice but to be patient at times. There’s also no map in the menus or HUD. Instead, you must find maps in the game world and figure out how to navigate from that. The controls feel a bit awkward, for some reason forcing you to use the d-pad for movement while the analog stick serves as a sort of first person view camera movement input.

    There’s several more modern ways to play Shenmue, but I’m happy that I can revisit the original on real hardware. And with the mods installed in my DC, it looks better than it ever did in 1999!

  • Came here to say something insightful about the election. But instead the only thing I can manage to say right now: fuck this.

  • The Dreamcast is back after 25 years

    I’m now the proud owner of the Sega Dreamcast…again! I was lucky enough to get one on launch day 25 years ago on 9/9/99. And now, I’ve decided it’s time to own one again.

    A Sega Dreamcast console and its controller on a dark surface. The console is white with the Dreamcast logo, and the controller features a joystick, a D-pad, and four colored buttons.

    However, this console has been modded in several important ways. First, it has a HDMI port added. This taps directly into the GPU’s output allowing for 1080p display. Second, the disk drive has been swapped with a SD card reader. This allows you to play backups and should be much more reliable going forward than a spinning disk drive.

    It arrived just in time to serve as a perfect distraction!

    TV screen displaying the game menu for “Rez” by UGA/SEGA, 2001. Options include “travelling,” “play,” “score attack,” “options,” and “how to play.”

    A game of Rez anyone? Looks fantastic on my OLED tv, by the way.

    I’m also looking forward to replaying Shenmue and old Resident Evil games.

  • A tranquil waterfront scene featuring two small tugboats and a large blue barge labeled “BIBLIA,” equipped with a crane. The background contains trees and industrial buildings under a partly cloudy sky.

    Savannah, GA

  • Caved and installed 18.1 on my phone and got access to Apple Intelligence. Is Apple really Intelligent? Time will tell, I suppose.

  • ⚽️ Wow, Atlanta United is continuing this season by the skin of their teeth! ⚽️

  • Looking for suggestions of good YouTube channels featuring video taken out in the field. I’m a little tired of the talking head format. Anything science or environment related would be great!