Before the walk even started, I could feel it coming. I resisted the urge to back out, though, and I did make it through the whole walk and the lunch after, and I don’t think I came off too strange to other participants. What follows is a text I sent to a very old and …
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Move along. There’s not much worth seeing here. I had a rather severe attack of social anxiety and totally lost the will to shoot. Most of the pixels were tortured within an inch of their 1’s and 0’s to get even this poor showing. I guess there may be a bit of beauty here, and …
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Sometimes, the only way to begin is to walk away. I hoped to have a happier beginning beginning this week, but it didn’t begin, it ended, and it ended before it even properly began. I’m not particularly bothered about this particular state of affairs: I was not long invested in the project, and I found …
Well, I had a whole rant to accompany this image, but I can’t post it: too personal. I know: this has never stopped me before, right? lol D7000. Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Zomb-E Series. ISO400, 1/3rd (AP mode), f/3.5, -1 EV. About 3 minutes of rather heavy slider play in Aperture.
I did a bunch of processing on this, but like the original better. There were sharper shots made of this pair of ________s (I know nothing about whatever these things are) made today, but none of them captured the melancholia I’m feeling in quite the same way as this one. I don’t mind that the …
Well, this not quite the exact same subject as can be found in yesterday’s photo… but it’s maybe 6 inches to the right of that one, and taken with the lens that proves broken can be beautiful: the Zomb-E Series. (In case you’ve forgotten, or weren’t around yet, or are checking out random posts on …
I went over to momma’s for breakfast yesterday, and she handed off some camera gear that belonged to my Grandfather. A full Vivitar rig: 250/SI (with some mold in the eyepiece), Vivitar 50mm f/1.8 (Cosina-made, in the 30th week of 1975, or maybe 85, but everything else is from the mid 1970s, and it looks like a …
