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Friday presents flowers again…
3 new blooms present themselves Leica M, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit-R
Glimpses of life moving through us
One could discuss everything technically “wrong” with this photograph: Shot through a, not all that clean, double pane window; and a screen. Out of focus foreground objects partially blocking the subject. Perhaps too high an ISO. Severe Crop. Yet something also feels very “right,” or at least “natural,” too. We really do only catch brief glimpses of […]
Robin, Shamrock, Fresh Warm Bread
Robin, Shamrock, Fresh, Warm, Bread … Surely a poem can be found between and around those words, in the morning, in the spring time, if I look long, listen, and smell softly. Leica M, 350 mm Telyt-R
Spring stroll and checking in with the neighbors
(right click open in new tab or window for larger view) The Great Blue Heron is more of a visitor than a neighbor. And I chose to “posterize” the photograph because the creature took off before I could get it in focus. The Great Blue without posterization. Leica M, 560 mm Telyt
This morning… on the way back from errands in town…
and warm enough to have the windows down the sound of the falls blew in and whispered come over here… We must always listen to nature whispering. (right click and open image in new window or tab, for larger view) Leica M, 28 mm Summicron Asph
Challenge: Day 5; Photo 3 of 5;
…or does this count for 3 and 4? I’m obviously not very good at this “challenge” thing. (See additional images of Sophia’s 2015 School Christmas Concert here) (click photo for larger view) Canon 5D, 70 – 200 1:2.8 L IS USM
Testing: 1, 2, 3… Leica M8 for infrared
The following rendering and focus tests involve the Leica M8 camera set at ISO 160, mounted to a Leica Table Top Tripod, and with a 40 mm Summicron lens: 1) without a filter; 2) without a filter converted to black and white; 3) with a B+W F-Pro 092 Infrared Filter; 4) with a B+W F-Pro […]
Light flirts continuously…
…and fleetingly, with me. Much as wind flirts with tall grass, outside this window. Much as memories flirt with time, and hearts, through inside windows. Look… there she sits… alone, on the dunes. (a quarter century ago) as if yesterday. None of these hold still; except the photograph’s silent story. “Well tell me then. Who is it […]
Friday: flowers few and far between
as we watch the falling of petals and leaves and summer (click photograph for larger view) Hasselblad 500 CM/39-CF, 80 mm Zeiss Planar on Extension Tube