“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 …
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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 …
365.94 Variation within Repetition
(or, I <3 Philip Glass) I found the source of the strange flare I got whenever I tried to use flash or any other bright lights with the new macro rig… the filter that came with the Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AI, and that the seller proclaimed had never left the front of the lens in …
365.93 tree droppings @ 8:1
I was having a ton of fun building little alien worlds and inventing nice/scary stories about them until I found that the lump of tree droppings I brought in was heavily populated by some tiny, white, grub-type things… I didn’t manage to get a photo of any, as the depth of field is too tiny …
365.92 BlowUp
(For those of you who haven’t seen the Antonioni film of the same title, this likely makes no sense.) I’ve done a bit of film-shooting lately with the old Ricoh 35-ZF, and I took a roll of Ilford HP-5 400 film to be developed and scanned, and the nice people gave me a 4×6 version …
365.90 Part I: the Orignal
In honor of the 3 full Months I’ve been on this now, today’s 365 project comes in 3 parts… Part 1: the Original D7000. 24mm f/2.8 ai, reversed, on 104mm of extensions, and mounted on a GorillaPod and attempting to focus on the dust on the MacBook Pro, when I scooched when I should’ve leaned …
