{"id":11493,"date":"2016-10-28T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2016-10-28T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T17:36:41","slug":"fridays-flora-and-fungi-with-old-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=11493","title":{"rendered":"Friday’s flora, fungi and old stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past week \/
\ni reflected on past times \/
\nas i\u00a0repaired a 100 year old fountain pen \/
\nwith flexible 14 k gold tines \/
\nand a sac gone brittle into dust \/<\/p>\n

\"img_0438\"(Settles Supremacy Pen, photographed with iPhone 6s, iPro S2 Century Macro)<\/p>\n

Then, on this overcast, chilly, fall morning \/
\nI pickup a lens made in 1970 (Leica made 1,000 of them that year) \/
\nand attach it to a Visoflex III, made sometime between 1961 and 1984 \/
\nand attach all that to a full frame digital Leica \/
\nthat only makes black and white image files \/<\/p>\n

and in doing all of that \/
\ni actually seem to ‘connect’ \/
\nwith a younger version of myself \/<\/p>\n

(click photograph for larger view)<\/p>\n

\"l1191620\"<\/a> \"l1191622\"<\/a> \"l1191623\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Last flower and Shaggy Ink Caps, photographed with Leica M Monochrom, 65 mm Elmar on Visoflex III)<\/p>\n

\"img_0440\"<\/a>(Leica Monochrom, Visoflex III and 65 mm Elmar, with ink on a\u00a0page, photographed with iPhone 6s)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past week \/ i reflected on past times \/ as i\u00a0repaired 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,55,17,18,39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-flora","category-photography","category-poetry","category-things","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11507,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}