Weeks have passed with very little photography.
Been digging around in tool bags quite different than the camera bags.
Rather than reaching for the correct focal length lens, choosing ISO and shutter speeds, and apertures…
I’ve been choosing saw blades, planes, chisels, gouges and trying to find a taper jig for the table saw.
Laid the new hardwood on the step to transition into the kitchen.
The fan finally arrived and is a delight to look at as it transitions to the cedar.
Quite immersed in the beauty, and smell, of oak and cedar trees…
Did manage to share coffee and a few stories with fellow photographer, Troy Freund;
who offered up a couple “Magic Arms” in exchange for a large vanilla bean coffee from Stone Creek.
Troy had rented an Leica M (240) and asked me about my take on Leica focusing vs. auto focus DSLRs.
I handed him my Olympus EVF to clip on his rental M. That was my answer and he “got it” instantly.
Blending the eclectic, perhaps even eccentric…
Searching for solutions to return to true and plumb in a world where the concept seemed irrelevant.
Fitting and finishing… you’d hardly know that short wall was twisted in two different directions…
The joy of craftsmanship, the smell and feel of wood being formed and fit…
accompanied by a certain melancholy…
as the arthritis whispers of aging, and trigger fingers lock up around the gouges and mallets…
back now seems chronically in pain… aging does not favor weeks of bending over the work…
Leica M, 35 mm Summilux Asph
Very nice. I know the feeling:
An apartment we re-did last summer
http://wesselphoto.com/p/2014/31-Wilson/index.html
My basement. Been working on this way too long:
http://wesselphoto.com/p/2013/12-Basement/index.html
Thanks for stopping by… your projects look wonderful. Although I don’t quite understand the “plan” for what’s going on in your basement… building some sort of “pass through” or?