S. Z. Attwell ☕️💻
Another #introduction post for all the new Twitter people (and just new people in general!). A little about me: I’m Sabrina - I’m a #writer (some #scicomm) and #author of #ScienceFiction (and #ClimateFiction and #dystopian) #books - my series Aestus was on the Amazon hard #scifi bestseller list recently. 😊 I also do #archery and #photography and enjoy #hiking - I would love to get into #astrophotography. I am learning #German and really enjoy good convos/coffee/tea. Sry for so many hashtags 😅
Dec 21, 2022 at 11:09pmWeb
Show threadJan BartosikDec 21, 2022
@szattwellauthor About to start book 2 The Colony. Enjoyed The City a lot.
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Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 21, 2022
@janbartosik oh awesome - thank you so much for letting me know, I’m really glad you enjoyed it! Hope book 2 is as good!
Show threadQuadrapop 🎨 🐈‍🐓🌱🇦🇺Dec 21, 2022
@szattwellauthor never apologise for tags here - that is how we find cool stuff #FollowHashtags #YouAreTheAlgorythm #CamelCase #ImageDescriptions and a lot of #interaction is how this place works to create #awesome #community
Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 21, 2022
@quadrapop awesome, thanks - it felt very self-promo-y but I also want to connect with interesting people soooo 👍🏻👍🏻😊
Show threadEcon-IntelDec 21, 2022
@szattwellauthor welcome.
Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 21, 2022
@EconIntel thank you!
Show threadRuthanneDec 22, 2022
@szattwellauthor great to meet you!
Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022
@ruthannereid you as well!
Show threadMatthewDec 22, 2022
@szattwellauthor Oh I did not know you hope to learn astrophotography? Me too! I even bought a camera with removable lens (so later I could get a telephoto for moon shots etc), but so far the brain fog has been too much to actually learn how to use it properly. One day though insha Allah.
Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022
@picard yes! And really? That’s so cool! There’s not enough dark sky here to really do much but I used to live out in really rural Washington and you could see the Milky Way at night if you drove out of town. Very cool about the camera and I hope the brain fog clears up soon inshaAllah. Here are some of my favorite moon pics:
Show threadMatthewDec 22, 2022

@szattwellauthor I am also from the sticks - the night sky is so much better when you're not in a city. I'm far enough from the centre of London that I do get some stars, but it's not the same.

Your moon pictures are great, you're very talented. The first one especially, it's difficult to capture the moon, well done.

And thank you. Jazak Allahu khair.

Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022

@picard that sounds amazing - I’ve always wanted to visit the English countryside, it’s a dream inshaAllah.

Alhamdulillah - thank you! I’ve never been trained, I couldn’t tell you formal stuff about composition and such, I just feel it when I see the view and then I capture it as best I can. It is very hard to capture the moon. I had to use my “real” camera (not cell phone) for it.

Wa iyyak!

Show threadMatthewDec 22, 2022

@szattwellauthor oh really? Ahh, I hope you can visit one day, and fulfill your dream 😊

I grew up around one of the most beautiful parts of the world. I know everyone says the same but in this case it's true 😂 I'm sort of kidding, but it really is very nice and I miss it.

I think that's probably a sign you have a good eye for photos if you do that. That you used an actual camera explains how it's so clear, I was wondering how you got it, my phone can never manage that 😁

Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022

@picard yes! I hope so inshaAllah! Ooh where did you grow up?

Alhamdulillah - I think similarly inshaAllah. I just see something that looks nice and have worked with my cameras long enough to have a sense of how to capture it. Usually works. Some colors and such not so much but that’s ok.

I usually use a phone - here’s a camera shot compared to with a phone:

Show threadMatthewDec 22, 2022

@szattwellauthor I grew up kind of on the border of the Peak District - so we spent a lot of time there growing up - and Sherwood Forest (maybe you heard of it from Robin Hood - I've visited his famous tree many times 😁 ). Lots of woods and stuff nearby, with the hill walks in the peaks when we wanted a day out.

But, Scotland is pretty awesome too, I will say 😊

Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022

@picard ooh the Peak District is basically my dream area. That and the Yorkshire Dales. I read a lot of James Herriot as a kid. 😊

Um, excuse me, you live in Scotland? Ahh that’s amazing mashaAllah - I really want to see it one day. My ancestors came from there and I actually know exactly where their village was. (It’s underwater now 😅.)

Show threadMatthewDec 22, 2022

@szattwellauthor Oh sorry no I was unclear! I don't live in Scotland - but been there many times, I was giving them credit that it's not just English countryside that is great 😄 Interesting that your ancestors are from there! Highlands? There was a huge amount of emigration to America from the Highlands...

There are so many interesting places in the Peak District - not just hills but old historical places, huge cave systems, it's a wonderful place to visit. I hope you do 😊

Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022

@picard ohhh ok! Haha yes Scotland looks amazing mashaAllah. My family actually comes from Ayrshire - they weren’t one of the Highlands clans, they were Brythonic Celts apparently. Snodgrass was the name. They had a small village close to what’s now a golf course in Irvine. The river rerouted so that’s why I said underwater 😅.

It looks amaaazing (Scotland too) and one day yes, inshaAllah 😊

Show threadMatthewDec 22, 2022
@szattwellauthor that's really interesting heritage! 😊 indeed, one of the old Celtic kingdoms was up around there (Alt Clud - Strathclyde). I imagine it'd be really interesting to visit where your ancestors lived!
Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022
@picard yup! I think they lived right there (Strathclyde). Someone wrote a super long history of the family (online) which is how I figured it out. Old British map of the area and all. I hope to one day inshaAllah.
Show threadMatthewDec 23, 2022
@szattwellauthor fascinating! That sounds like a great thing to discover online. 😊
Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 23, 2022
@picard it was! So much info haha.
Show threadMatthewDec 22, 2022
@szattwellauthor There's a such a big difference between those two photos. I don't know why phones struggle so much with the mood but it's so much better on the camera shot there. Also - the ghost image from the double glazing is barely visible on the camera shot, only if you know to look, but the phone picks it up more (mine does the same - even 3-4 ghost images sometimes somehow 😄 )
Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022
@picard wait you mean like a double moon? Or ?? And yeah they don’t do well with very bright detailed surfaces, I think.
Show threadMatthewDec 22, 2022
@szattwellauthor Ahh I meant - if you look closely on the phone photo it looks like there's a ghost of the moon just up and to the right? Forgive me if I was looking too closely but I was examining the two photos because I was interested to compare them 😄
Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022
@picard Ohh no that’s what I thought you meant, I just couldn’t see anything myself 😂 and no, please, the moon is very worth admiring in detail mashaAllah 😊
Show threadMatthewDec 22, 2022

@szattwellauthor it is very faint on yours, sometimes on mine it's like there are two moons in the sky 😂

Here is one I took some time ago if you like it 😊

Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022

@picard oh yeah I hate that haha.

Ooh that is very beautiful mashaAllah - thanks for sharing! I have something similar:

Show threadMatthewDec 22, 2022
@szattwellauthor that's lovely 😊 great how it contrasts with the mysterious clouds and the dark ground / water.
Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 22, 2022
@picard alhamdulillah - thanks, it took me multiple tries to capture it!
Show threadMatthewDec 23, 2022
@szattwellauthor worth the effort!
Show threadS. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Dec 23, 2022
@picard 😊