Category Archives: Flora

After years of tinkering, finally, yesterday, I, more or less, perfected the prototype, swing/shift/tilt, platform for digital, mirrorless bodies

Based on a Leica M Bellows, disassembled, and carefully hacksawed, a Novoflex Castel Q focusing rail, 2 Chinese Rotating quick release clamps, and both Really Right Stuff and Chinese quick release plates. The device goes together and comes apart in a minute or two; and allows for swinging and shifting both lens and body, and […]

Lost in the Beauty Full Mysteries of Attraction

How many billions of leaves lay on the forest floor? I’m attracted to one of them. Why? I pick it up. Gingerly. It’s dry and fragile. I put it in my pocket. And hope that it does not turn to dust there. It joins other found objects brought home to ponder. Bones, bark, stones… attracted […]

No time like the present to yield to desire…

For reasons unknown I’ve wanted to creatively engage with a “bonsai tree” most of my adult life. I’ve been gifted with 2 or 3 over the decades. The little super market varieties. Pretty much destined to die. Sooner rather than later. I did manage to nurture a wonderful bonsai box elder which seeded itself in […]

Wandering & Wondering. Strolling. Sensing & Seeing. Looking & Listening. Documenting. Learning. Meeting & Marveling.

Mayapple, …in toxic ating… Woodland Dunes State Natural Area, Leica SL, Apo-Macro-Elmarit-R 100 / 1:2.8 + 2x Apo-Extender (click image for larger view)

Friday: about flowers and lenses

So I “needed” a backup… second body to photograph an upcoming wedding. I scanned eBay over a month or two to get an idea of market prices; finally went for a kit which included what appeared to be a low mileage 5D body, genuine Canon Backpack case, a few batteries, charger, a remote timer/trigger, some […]

Friday’s flora, fungi and old stuff

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 […]