Some photographers, upon receiving a new (or in this case old) lens, photograph brick walls, test charts and/or newspapers to test a lens. I’ve never done this nor understood the reason for that approach. I prefer to test a lens within the context of a photograph I’ll actually enjoy looking at — to discover the […]
Category Archives: Flora
Friday: A flower…
…arrived for a brief visit Wednesday evening. On Thursday morning the bloom journeyed on, along with a freshly baked Lazy Dazy cake; two gifts for a friend to honor the day her mother departed this life. (click photograph for larger view) R8/DMR, 100 apo macro elmarit
A friday flower
(click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 65 mm Elmar on Visoflex
Snow day 110111
(click photograph for larger view) R8/DMR, 135 mm Ziess S-Planar, on Cambo Ultima
Friday’s flower
a fragment found for friday Leica M8, 65 mm Elmar on Visoflex III
Friday: cryo-flowers
our very last blooms in slowed, yet inevitable, transition toward future conditions (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo-Macro Elmarit
Friday: flower — still life?
The flowering plants have fallen over, wilted, dried, gone to seed. Very little green remains “outside” — only the pines and some grasses. The days have become short and the light, more often than not, overcast, dull and gray. If I continue to produce a flower photograph each Friday it will require more planning; no longer simply a […]
Friday: flower
(click image for larger view) Leica R8, 15 mm Super Elmar Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo-Macro Elmarit
Not only leaves fall
not only leaves fall winds and windows change the state of life around us (click image for larger view) R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo-Macro Elmarit R8/DMR, 15 mm Super Elmar
A conversation with forms of disintegration
Billions of leaves now lie on my little parcel of the planet. Each whispers a different message about color, form, texture, pattern, volume, shape, and line. Each changes by the hour as they disintegrate; no longer able to fulfill their role in photosynthesis. How do I choose just one leaf to visually converse with? Does it matter […]