Slack day at Samizdata, and this evening, I was taking it up, which left no time for here, so here is a recent favourite photo, which will not be to all tastes, on account of it being blurry and dark and insufficiently of anything. But this is my blog and I like it.

What I like is the way the dots look so painted. Click to get them bigger.

Here are the dots on the right in close-up, nearly full size:

We have entered a world of pure machine reaction here, having almost no connection with how it looks to the human eye. But in a good way, I think.

Why is it that I have so much more respect for my photos when they look almost like abstract paintings, than I do for actual abstract paintings? What's that about?

By the way, what it is is lights seen across the river Thames, at night. And there was you thinking it was lunchtime.