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: Up Close
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
Friday’s flowers. The mood continues.
Soft. Overcast. Damp. (click photograph for larger view) Leica M, 75 mm Summilux + two OUFRO rings
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 […]
Tree frog and rainbow
The tree frog seemed to find great comfort in the plastic tub containing the deck furniture cushions. I continue to marvel at the view from my front door; as well as the very human scale architecture of Cedarburg (after the rain). (click photograph for larger view) Leica M, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit – R […]
Friday’s flowers with iPro 2X Tele and .45X Super Wide
Curiosity drives exploration. The ProCamera app, and many others, on the iPhone 6S, allows manual control of ISO, Shutter Speed and more. And what about these other two lenses in my pocket? iPhone 6S, iPro 2x Tele, ISO 32, 1/15, f:2.2 iPhone 6S, iPro .45x Super Wide, ISO 40, 1/15, F:2.2 iPhone 6S, iPro .45x […]
iPhone Camera and Schneider iPro Lenses
Every photographer, artist, musician, crafts person asks themselves, either consciously or subconsciously, “What can my tools do? What marks, or sounds, or tones can they produce; in my hands?” The iPhone camera qualifies as a photographic tool; a camera; which fits in your pocket, and includes a built in digital darkroom; as well as a publishing and distribution house. Remarkable to […]
Friday’s flower and other studies
(click photograph for larger views) Leica M, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit Leica M, Leitz Wetzlar 160/-4/0.10 Leica M, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit Leica M, Leitz Wetzlar 160/-4/0.10