For the last month I’ve engaged in the process of going through and throwing away almost 4 decades of color and black & white negatives, transparencies, polaroid prints, layouts and key line mechanicals on illustration board, as well as final separation films for advertisements, catalog sheets, posters, and annual reports. Each of the thousands of […]
Category Archives: Photography
Friday: fall, fungus, flowers
loving my old tree aging walls and weeds (click photo for larger view) Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph
Letting go of “back in the day”…
… when every single subject was photographed with Polaroid proofs, 3 – 4×5 (or 5×7, or 8×10) Ektachrome brackets, 2 – color negatives and proof prints, 2 – black and white negatives and proof prints, and 3 – 35 mm Kodachrome brackets for slide show use; all neatly filed near the light box. (click images […]
The Free (and the phoenix)
For the past ten days I’ve been clearing 45 years of accumulated “stuff” out of my 1600 square foot quonset hut. This includes long forgotten “projects;” 40 year old client files from the days of reproduction art on illustration board; silk screens and squeegees; potters wheel and kiln; sculpting clay and tools; frames and glass; […]
Friday’s flower
(click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit
Friday: a flower
(click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 50 mm Sumicron on bellows
Irish eyes @ Irish Fest
(click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph
Friday: flowers and friend
(click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit
Friday’s flower
“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.” — Roland Barthes (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 35 mm Summicron (on bellows @ minimum extension)
Gathering of the McDonald Clan (highlights)
(click photograph for larger view) (see the complete collection HERE) The place: Eagle, WI The guest of honor The kids the game Mike and Clyde Bob Clyde Canon 5D, 70 – 200 mm EF 1:2.8 L IS USM