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Nina's Blog - Saturday 3rd January 2026

Saturday 3rd January 2026, 19:19

-6 C when I went for a walk today. That's a pleasant enough temperature here, usually. But we had a 6 m/s wind with 12 m/s gusts (22 and 43 kph, 13 and 27 mph, Beaufort 4). Not exactly a hurricane but I wore the wrong hat

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Lilymoon · F
Just curious who takes your pictures?
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@Lilymoon I do. :-)

What I do is to take videos. I just switch my mobile phone to video and start it recording, then I prop it somewhere and strike a few poses in front of it. That way I don't have to hold the poses and wait for a self timer.

Once I have the video I just use the Photos app to extract a few frames. My mobile is Android but I'm sure Apple has similar features. Sometimes I transfer the video to my laptop and extract the frames there using ffmpeg.

It means that most of my selfies are relatively low resolution, 2 megapixel, 1920x1080 but that's plenty good enough for showing onscreen.
Lilymoon · F
@ninalanyon wow you do a great job!
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@Lilymoon I suspect that it's mostly that it's not as difficult as it looks. The great advantage of taking video is that I can pick one good frame out of a hundreds of useless ones. :-)