Category Archives: Family and Friends

“Phenomena of Being. Missing.”

…the working title of this recently completed encaustic painting. Though words seem to interfere with visual aesthetic experience: (click image for larger view) Encaustic paint, on stretched fabric, and RC silver print, ruined by flood. I found myself unable to throw away this particular scratched and ruined print, with the others which were laminated to […]

Last day of “summer vacation”

Yesterday… cycled to the Out ‘n’ Out to meet Tanya and Sophia… Last day of summer vacation for Sophia… After her mac’n’cheese and chocolate malt… Sophia waded in Cedar Creek… below the rapids… attempted to capture micro minnows… swimming upstream… in a tiny school… as I experimented further with the iPhone 6S and the “Slow […]

Father’s day…

summer. super hot. slow choosing. not choosing. Jerome chose, “atlas bbq.” first time. last time. back to the house. lazy. hammock. run Ann’s RC boats in the pond. feed the fish. play a game of Lasso Golf. later: half hour conversation about iron cookware; and a bigoted cook. (click photograph for larger view) Leica M Monochrom, 50 […]

the last day of Christmas…

    …on the first day of January. Finally delivered Sophia’s gifts to her. (click photograph for larger view) And Jerome requested that we attempt to recreate a pose that he and Tanya took on their wedding day… as they’re celebrating their 10 wedding anniversary on this first day of January. So how did we […]

May be the best $10 I ever spent… Cadillacs and brunettes @ 3

I saw the Garage Sale sign on Pioneer Road; just around the corner from the house we’ll soon move into. I turned onto a very long driveway; between a corn field and a bean field, over water filled pot holes, including a ninety degree right hand turn, and a ninety degree left hand turn — finally up to a metal […]

A day with the Leitz Apo—Macro—Elmarit—R 1:2.8 / 100 on the M (240)

(click photograph for larger view) Dust to dust. Wabi (a quality of austere and serene beauty expressing a mood of spiritual solitude recognized in Zen Buddhist philosophy.) Sabi (“The concept sabi carries not only the meaning ‘aged’—in the sense of ‘ripe with experience and insight’ as well as ‘infused with the patina that lends old things their beauty’—but […]

Leitz Wetzlar Summicron-R 1:2 / 35 on Leica M: So, so sweet.

The Leitz Wetzlar Summicron-R 1:2 / 35 hanging on the Leica M (240) with Multifunction Grip and EVF truly feels like a terrific walk around kit. Extremely well balanced. Able to focus down to less than 10″; while offering a slightly wide field of view; yet maintaining terrifically natural sense of perspective and scale. And […]

Leitz Wetzlar Elmarit-R 1 : 2.8 / 24 mm on Leica M : Grassroots Politics on the North Shore

The Leitz Wetzlar Elmarit-R 1 : 2.8 / 24 – A Minolta lens design – performs admirably on the Leica M sensor; just as it did on the DMR sensor; and on film before that. Good center and corner performance. Good flare resistance. The mildest bit of chromatic aberration; easily corrected with slightest adjustment in Lightroom. […]