I enjoyed my first good night’s sleep since last Thursday (the last night I slept in my own apartment, in my own bed), and woke up at my usual—if wildly unreasonable—time: 4am. I did doze a bit, but was up and atom by 5, tripod grabbed from the trunk and remote release forgotten in the room …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
365.104 Lightning, perhaps
After an early morning photowalk around town and a nice breakfast with Momma, I pulled out of Marfa around 9am and drove north to Balmorhea (and the wildly underwhelming Balmorhea State Park, with its artesian spring-fed swimming pool that was ‘closed until further notice’ and RV-friendly campsites), then back south through Fort Davis and the …
365.103 Bees are in the What Now?
“Bees are in the what now?” is a throwaway line from a Simpson’s episode (the one where Homer ends up owning all the sugar in town…) that an old friend of mine used to use as a catch-phrase of some sort, and is quite fitting as a title for this throwaway photo. I shot 177 …
365.102 Easter Morning in Marfa
I would likely have something more interesting than what is pretty much nothing more than a lens flare test shot to share, but I spent the day touring the Chinati Foundation, and after a whole day of minimalist art, and after a whole day spent running on minimalist sleep, not to mention the it’s-my-birthday-so-I’m-doing-some-self-criticism-and-have-lots-to-criticize, I’m …
365.101 Somewhere North of Alpine, TX
Well, I spent the day driving to Marfa, TX, with momma where we’ll spend the next 4 days wandering and shooting around town and various parts of The Big Bend. It had just finished raining—a decidedly rare event for this part of the country, where average yearly rainfall is in the 5″ range—and the windshield …
365.100 Self-Portrait in Macro Mode
In my packing excitement, I almost forgot about shooting a 365! Silly me! So out came the Zomb-E Series and I set something up that I tried a few times but was previously unsuccessful at… I shot the my reflection, macro, in the front element(s) of an old mamiya/sekor 50mm f/2 (mounted on the sadly-destroyed-due-to-battery-acid-long-before-I-acquired-it-but-still-functional-without-any-metering …
365.99 This Tree is not a Toy
Well, I know I promised to shoot only the Zomb-E this week, but after 4 days, I realized that it’s not a total loss, or even a partial loss, really. The Zomb-E remains a strong performer, and a lens that will remain in my collection (and in use) for many years. Plus, the two cheap …