iPhone photography: personal and immediate

As a photographer who has always had a camera nearby, within reach, or at least within a few steps, certainly in the next room anyway — I’ve definitely always used my 35mm and digital cameras for very personal observations and documentation. The bigger cameras, the medium format, 4×5 – 12×20 view cameras, demanded far more deliberation; tripods; more […]

Saturday morning…

 …after fueling on the Marriott’s continental breakfast; and watching two fellows have breakfast with their phones. (click photographs for larger view) iPhone 6s …and after brewing locally roasted (by Emy J’s) Ethiopian coffee, in my decades old Morentina mocha pot, over the old butane camp stove, in the Marriott parking lot; we headed out on the country roads, in and […]

After Jurustic Park…

we drove back to Stevens Point and strolled the streets; “shopping” an antique/consignment mall, boutiques, finding single source locally roasted coffee; drinking malted milks; eating burgers; and photographing these decorations in the windows of the pet supply store. (click photographs for larger view) Ending up back at the Marriott; fairly sore from walking throughout the day. iPhone 6s, […]

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 […]

Monday’s bike ride to Lion’s Den Gorge

on the Western shore of the Great Lake Michigan. along the way on Lake Shore Drive, South of the Gorge. From the bluff. Looking North to Port Washington Gulls on the water Looking South towards Milwaukee Leica M8, 40 mm Summicron with B+W 93 IR Filter And other notes… Leica M, 100 mm Apo Elmarit […]

For Love of Papers…

…mine and others, bind it, fold it, make marks on it, with graphite, ink, typewriter ribbons, charcoal, water color, hot wax, call them poems, drawings, sketches, short stories, journals, memories reproduce them with intaglio, engravings, lithographs, etchings, photographs, …impressions, expressions, eye candy, communications, fold it, crumble it, tear it, cut it, punch it, wrap something up […]