A friend came to visit me today. His real name is Denis but he is known as @denisdenis here on Hive.
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I prepared an instant coffee that doesn't require much preparation and then we sat as usual in front of the computer. I'm always doing something, creating simple drawings or preparing photographs for future posts while talking with friends or anyone visiting.
I get nervous if I sit and talk without being busy with something more useful at the same time. A pure casual chat feels so exhausting to me if it isn't balanced with a bit of work and focus on creating something.
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Denis also does not like chatting for the chat's sake. He is always doing something on his smartphone and often brings unexpected, interesting, or just bizarre things to show me.
Quite often, Denis looks and sounds like something in between a crazy scientist and a perfectly sane alchemist.
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Today Denis manifested himself with a snail and a homemade magnifier.
I mean, the snail wasn't a snail really, just an empty shell with no snail inside. But it was an interesting shell that I don't encounter often.
The shell belongs to a species scientifically known as ... something and something in Latin. I don't know what species is this. I think it's something from the genus Marmorana in the Helicidaefamily, Marmorana muralis - for example, but I could be wrong.
The magnifier was made with a piece of glass found in the lens of my old, broken camera I gave Denis to dismantle and something that looked like some kind of bottle opener.
He brought also some weird green thing that glows in the dark.
"For Christ's sake, man" - I screamed - "Is this shit radioactive!?"
Believe it or not, it was just some kind of fishing bait that someone once used to catch fish in the dark.
Denis tried to photograph all those things together with his smartphone ...
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... and I did the same with my Canon PowerShot SX60 HS camera.
Denis has a very good smartphone but my camera is better. At least when it comes to taking photos. You can't call 9-1-1 with my camera nor can you send messages around.
Anyway, if this was a contest I would have won.
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In this set of twelve photographs, Denis is showing a wound he got while working on one of his crazy inventions.
And that's it. There's nothing else left to show or say.
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AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.