This past week / i reflected on past times / as i repaired a 100 year old fountain pen / with flexible 14 k gold tines / and a sac gone brittle into dust / (Settles Supremacy Pen, photographed with iPhone 6s, iPro S2 Century Macro) Then, on this overcast, chilly, fall morning / I pickup […]
Category Archives: Daily thoughts
Monday’s monochrome
I think if fair to say / photographers startle easily / when they see certain things / (click photograph for larger view) Leica M, 75 mm Summilux
Friday’s flour…
…fresh-out-of-the-oven sourdough bread baked a tad too dark, though with the brie tastes almost too magnificent; as I can’t stop eating them together (click photograph for larger view) iPhone 6s
The Fallen
Front Porch Meditation for some the growing and saluting the sun every morning has ended and the returning has begun (click photograph for larger view) iPhone 6s, iPro s2 [Schneider] Century Macro
Friday’s flower
down to wild ones blowing about in the fall winds had to grab hold of it to hold it still (click photograph for larger view) Leica M, 35 mm Summilux ASPH + 2 OUFRO
iPhone photography: personal and immediate
As a photographer who has always had a camera nearby, within reach, or at least within a few steps, certainly in the next room anyway — I’ve definitely always used my 35mm and digital cameras for very personal observations and documentation. The bigger cameras, the medium format, 4×5 – 12×20 view cameras, demanded far more deliberation; tripods; more […]
Saturday morning…
…after fueling on the Marriott’s continental breakfast; and watching two fellows have breakfast with their phones. (click photographs for larger view) iPhone 6s …and after brewing locally roasted (by Emy J’s) Ethiopian coffee, in my decades old Morentina mocha pot, over the old butane camp stove, in the Marriott parking lot; we headed out on the country roads, in and […]
First stop: Jurustic Park
Our second annual fall “art studio tour” began Friday morning, with a stop at Jurustic Park, northwest of Marshfield, WI, where Clyde Wynia provided a most entertaining monologue and tour of his menagerie of iron critters. Don’t miss Jurustic Park if you’re within 100 miles or so of Marshfield. Nancy Wynia works with glass, silver and other metal wires, as […]
After Jurustic Park…
we drove back to Stevens Point and strolled the streets; “shopping” an antique/consignment mall, boutiques, finding single source locally roasted coffee; drinking malted milks; eating burgers; and photographing these decorations in the windows of the pet supply store. (click photographs for larger view) Ending up back at the Marriott; fairly sore from walking throughout the day. iPhone 6s, […]
Friday’s flowers by crazy photographer…
As I contemplate flowers and cameras and lenses, to post a photograph for the “Friday flower,” I decide to play with the old Leitz 12.5 Photar on the Leica M. But it’s just not working out. Shutter speeds of 1/2 a second or more with wind blowing the subjects around; and it’s just too damn […]