B. Scott Andersen (NE1RD)

@bsandersen.bsky.social

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Retired software engineer, failed writer, budding photographer, avid reader, amateur radio enthusiast, and Chicago Cubs fan forever. Loves Sandy, cinnamon, and cats. New! Free typos with every post! Onlyfans stuff gets blocked 🙄

Stage at Symphony Hall, Boston showing a banner with John Williams and the full compliment of chairs and music stands at intermission.
Children holding a kitten during a parade. Sony 6700, E 70-350mm F4.5-6.3 G OSS, ISO 2500, 525mm, f/6.3, 1/500.
Infrared image displayed on a monitor of me eating ice cream.
George H. W. Bush speaking at a podium.
Our cats Muon, a classically marked tabby, left, and little Neutrino, a calico, snuggled together paws-to-paws on our bedding. I had just gotten a slow-blink from both so they look very relaxed.
Inset stone on the floor of Bath Abbey, Bath, UK. "On the ninth day of August AD 1973 the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh gave thanks here for one thousand years of the English Monarchy since the coronation of King Edgar on Whitsunday AD 973 in the Saxon Abbey on this site." Sony NEX-3N E PZ 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS. 34mm, f/4, 1/80, ISO 3200.
Book cover: It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
A float in a parade from 1973 in Plano, Illinois. The Plano Community Bank is in the background old cars parked on the street in front of it. The text on the float reads: "Alka-Seltzer -- for the big UPSET". From a 35mm slide taken with my father's Olympus rangefinder.
Slow shutter speed shot of a children's ride at night. The lights draw sweeping arc of colors as the ride sweeps back-and-forth.
Photo of Edward A. LeLacheur park with a sunset of pinks and blues, and players on the field.
Honda Element with license plate “The 5th” (hint: The Fifth Element is a movie)
Photograph of the moon. Sony a6700, E70-350mm, ISO 400, ev -4, f/6.3, 1/1000th.
Hanks the Tomcat huddles behind my ham radio, an Elecraft KX3 with spectrum display.
Red-tailed hawk sitting on a branch. Sony a6500, E70-350mm, f/7.1, 1/500th, ISO 100.
Sony a6700, E70-350mm (108mm), f/5.6, 1/350, ISO 100.
Scott, asleep on the couch under a Chicago Cubs blanked with Hanks the Tomcat resting comfortably on my chest. My eyes are covered by a sleep mask.
Cartoon figure with hair on fire screaming, "The Stupid, It Burns!"
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Sandy standing before the Largest Ceilidh Fiddle (violin) in the world. Cape Breton Island, Sydney, Nova Scotia. A nearly 50-foot (15-meters) celebrating the musical heritage of the region. Sony a6500, Sigma 10-18 2.8, ISO 160, f/4, 1/60th.
Nine deer feeding in my back yard. Sony a6500, 75mm, f/3.5, 1/160, ISO 1600. December 29, 2023.
Farm tractors in a 4th of July parade with the lead tractor driven by a boy with his grandfather (probably). Sony a6700, E70-350, ISO 100, 1/200, f/4.5. Newark, Illinois. 2024.
Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) resting on a flower. Sony a6700, E70-350mm, 1/200, f/4.5, ISO 100. Stone Zoo, Massachusetts.
Circle of thumbnails
Pile of old dusty books.
Sony a6700, E 70-350mm lens @189mm, 1/200 @ f/5.6, ISO 800. Scarlet Macaw (L) and Red-and-Yellow Macaw (R).
Photo of the sun with sunspots.
Die Hard image
Scott and Sandy in their rockers
Scott with a very black cat
Book cover: "The Violent Take It By Force" [The Christian movement that is threatening our democracy] by Mathew D. Taylor.
Representative Nancy Mace standing in the halls of Congress with her right arm in a sling.
Photo of my neighbor's house with aurora in the sky above it. Reds and green glow.
Scott holding Hanks the Tomcat on his shoulder when the cat was still a big, strong, magnificent creature.
Me standing in the foreground with the Mendenhall glacier in the background.
Cat resting on my chest.
Me standing in front of a store with a sign "We have all the baseball cards your mother threw away"
Street signs including a silhouette of John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus "The Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch.
Playbill cover for Frankenstein at the mrt.org
Photograph of my father Howard seated and his faithful cat Oreo awaiting scratches on the kitchen table.