Elias Art

Author of Rebranding, a near-future thriller about memory. Close-up photos on pure black and white. Games that train the mind. Knoxville, TN

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Your name is Andrew Reinholt.

At least, that's what they tell you when you wake from heart surgery in a house you don't remember. Every Friday, you take a twenty-question test to prove you're becoming yourself again.

Rebranding, my first novel, is out now on Kindle.
https://t.co/QV2wYZtD6M

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Skysa Notes is now on the Apps page. Every note is a plain Markdown file in your own Google Drive or Dropbox, so you can leave whenever you like. I built it because getting my notes out of other apps was harder than it should have been.

https://t.co/y1jkWw6kHP

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Another close-up on pure black for #MacroMonday. This one is Free Spirit. What's the smallest thing you've photographed lately?

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@RandallMurrain Three at once sounds like a lot, but I think it can help. When one story stalls, the other two keep you moving, and you come back to the first with fresh eyes.

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@Nawalaly4 Mums are such a good November subject. All those layered petals give the light something to do, even when it's flat and soft.

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@dianne0805 That's good advice for a Monday. Most of what I photograph was sitting there the whole time, I just hadn't slowed down enough to notice it.

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@SewellLeigh A resting bee is the best kind of subject. You finally get time to find the angle instead of chasing it from flower to flower.

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@clunk_games I've been there. Reactor got almost no traction when it first came out, and the game wasn't the problem, people just didn't know it existed. A short clip of the one moment that feels good tells people more than any description can.

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@noto_forest Countdown numbers on the houses are a clever way to add pressure without a clock. You still get room to stop and think, which keeps it a puzzle instead of a race.

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@TjikkoGame Rebuilding the puzzle system that far in takes nerve, but that's often the point where a game starts feeling like itself instead of a pile of parts.

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@ThomasHammerich A dark background is my favorite stage for a flower like this. Once everything else drops away, you start noticing the small curves and edges you'd walk right past in the garden.

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@randyfogarty_ Up high is always the tricky part. A small flashlight held off to one side can fill in where the tripod light won't reach.

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@Lexmi2005tpg3 Night-blooming flowers are a good excuse to shoot after dark. White petals against a dark sky give you that black-background look without any setup.

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@demimschwartz Pulling a late flashback up front can work really well in a thriller. It gives the reader a question to carry through the quieter early chapters, so they're reading to find out how we get there.

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@lemon7375 That's most of photography for me. Seeing it is more about being in the right mood than having the camera ready, and a sky like that makes it easy.

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@teamsazen Glad it helped. Good luck with Exit Rush.

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@teamsazen I'm not sure every bump should cost a heart. Letting the first wrong tap on a new level go free would help people learn the rule without feeling punished for it.

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@CurskiPics A turkey senior portrait is the best idea I've seen all day. Subjects that show up every day are the easiest to get good at, because there's always another chance tomorrow.

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@JohnH14458271 @ThePhotoHour Yellow is the one color that seems to bring its own light into a photo, even on a gray day.

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@hwjohnston7 Mine is getting a few more pages written. Reading a good thriller always makes me want to go back and tighten my own chapters.

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@Manoj_Bhat_ @Canon_India Ant mimics are such a clever trick. You'd walk right past one thinking it was just another ant, which I guess is the whole point. Getting one to sit still long enough for a sharp shot is a real catch.