father plus son
“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”
— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Leica R8/DMR, 350 mm Telyt
“In good writing, words become one with things.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
perhaps also in good photography
the image becomes one
with the subject
as well as
the moment
for the moment I think so
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Leica R8/DMR, 350 mm Telyt
Sometimes we go out with our cameras in the hope of freezing the natural world with absolute clarity. Only to find that the light, the film or digital sensor speed, our ability to focus or hold still, produces less than the clarity we hoped for. Yet magic, if not photographic perfection, can occur. We may just find that we captured poetry rather than clarity.
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Leica R8/DMR, 350 Telyt
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the fall leaves continue to fascinate both eye
and mind (as metaphor for life’s cycles)
(R8/DMR with 60mm Macro Elmarit)
Gazing up while waiting for malts with Sophia
(M8 with 28mm Summicron)
holiday remnants seen while waiting for David
along with a striking SUV interior
and finally a delightful David
a stroll about Virmond park
(with R8/DMR and 350mm Telyt)
after a day’s work – young men park the landscape truck – for a bit of ball
and found myself mesmerized by wind, waves and birds
porch sitting- mesmerized by the light
“Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.” – Ruth Bernhard
within the process
changing before our eyes, see
us in this mirror
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Leica M8, Visoflex III, 135 Elmar
we fall
weather leaf or whether life
all returns
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Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
returning (always) to the study of wabi sabi
wherein
the student perceives beauty
in the
ephemeral, transient, isolated, simple, subdued tranquil, natural, intimate, eternal, melancholic, asymmetrical, earthy, organic, rough, uneven, asperities, spacious, humble, sober, intangible yearning, impermanent, passage of time…
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Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
snow will soon cover the paths
walked with Sophia
and ice the river
from which this mandala emerged
her fourth fall
my sixty third
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Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Since the release of the Hasselblad CFV 39 back I’ve wondered how it would feel and function. Yesterday Steve Goldsmith, from Calumet, kindly drove 2/3rds of the way, through rain and beastly road construction traffic. A big thank you goes out to Steve. We met in Racine and put the back on my old CM and made a few shots with each of my lenses:
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80 mm
and 150 mm.
(ISO 400)
(ISO 100)
A very interesting experience from the start right through to post processing. Drop in the supplied ground glass with crop indication. Attach the CFV back; just as simple as switching a film back. No cords or electronic connections. Very cool. Buttons and menus are clear and quick.
The view screen had plastic on it and the images looked horrible (hopefully better without the plastic).
Viewing angle is extremely critical on this view screen. Shooting is exactly like using a film back; including the cranking after each frame – which really felt wonderfully nostalgic. Pre-release of mirror and shutter release all work just as it did in the good old days.
Back at the computer: The large 45 MB RAW files take significantly longer to load into Lightroom; when compared to DMR, 5D and M8 files. The files look quite impressive at ISO 100. At ISO 400 a fine grain “noise” begins to emerge in shadows; however with a very tight film grain look. Exporting from these large files also takes a lot more time. In other words big sensors need big computers and hard drives.
overcast today,
gray, damp, cool, few flowers left,
leaves turning on trees
shamrock seems sad
[family Leguminosae, in particular the lesser yellow trefoil (Trifolium minus)]
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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit