August 29 marked 8 full years since my darling wife, the adorable Hanabibti, and I married. To celebrate, we took a weekend trip down to Houston, just as the Delta variant rage was in full swing. Thankfully, we were vaccinated back in April and still wore masks everywhere, so we weren’t too worried, and it …
Category Archives: Photography
Scenes from the Car
In the spirit of “just find some pictures to post, jerk,” I present 9 photographs shot from the driver’s seat of my car, largely to finish out a roll I started in Arkansas back in late July (2021). Enjoy!
Scenes from the Garden
I’ve been in something of a photographic funk lately. As of 18 September, 2021, I had 4 cameras with film in and three rolls awaiting development, and had no interest in doing anything with any of them. I pulled myself out of this funk long enough to develop the three rolls—*yawn—and here are some scenes …
Wide Angle Battle – The Final Round
To be honest, I just wanted an excuse to shoot the Wai Wai. I loaded it up and had it sitting when the trip to Mom’s came up, and spur-of-the-moment decided to see if it could be bested by any of the other wide angle cameras in my stable. I was biased, and strongly so. …
Wide Angle Battle – the Consolation round
Really, it was close… sorta. I knew headed in that the plastic cameras would win over the LC-W, and the inclusion of the super-fancy FM3a/17-35mm f/2.8 was so spur-of-the-moment that I didn’t even really consider it. But here we are. After those few days at Mom’s and a week of round-robins, the LC-W and FM3a …
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Wide Angle Battle, Round 4: Driving and the River
The mid-summer 2021 trip to Mom’s was short, and after only 3 days, I headed back home. The drive home from Mom’s taught me a good lesson over the years: I’m one who almost always eats my spinach before I have my dessert. That is, I save the best for last. It’s an ok policy, …
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Wide Angle Battle, Round 3: Down the Crik
The roads around Mom’s house vary between narrow state highway, freshly-paved blacktop, rutted and pitted country lane, and dirt or gravel track. I like to travel a little figure-8 loop from her house, up the highway to the charity shop, down the roller-coaster road I’ve shared previously, past a hippy-decorated house hidden behind a very …
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