Inside/Outside

Sun passing through tree branches casts shadows through the north facing window onto our wooden closet. Shadow play. Always the basis of an engaging photograph or memory.

Hope you find memorable shadows this weekend, fellow traveler.

Publish Or Perish

My zine order from Magcloud came in; turn around time, less than one week. I think the quality is pretty decent, too. Good enough. Sufficient. And at four bucks for 24 pages, totally worth it, even for what essentially amounts to a maquette. The real learning point was finding relationships between my images, and that experience was spot on. And seeing work in print was rewarding too. They aren't so precious, our images, they're just work after all.

Tasting notes: Left: Leica R9, 35mm Summicron-R; Right: Canon R5, 100-400mm zoom.

Never Been To Dusseldorf

Although I spent a couple of years in Berlin, I never made it to Dusseldorf. Still, I do enjoy casually documenting the industrial decay around me. There aren't any major typological studies of grain hoppers in my future, though it was enjoyable to process this monochrome image. I'm slowly learning the behavior of a monochrome digital camera. I think the results are uniquely different from film and from conventional digital (color) photography.

Tasting notes: Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome, Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens.

Cat TV

Nocturnal animals kind of freak me out, man. Nothing creepier than settling in for a movie or a show, only for a raccoon to show up in your peripheral vision, silently and in the dark. The cat, on the other hand, was having a great time watching the action, safely behind the picture window. I guess you could say he was watching widescreen cat TV. 

Tasting notes: Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome, 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens.

Growing On Me

I admit that at first, I pretty much hated this turkey sculpture thing. Whatever it is. But over time, I've sort of gotten used to it and have to admit that it sometimes, once in a great while, brings an ever so slight amount of joy into my grinch-like heart.

Tasting notes: Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome, 100 mm Macro lens.

 

Summer Mushrooms

Given the shear volume of rain we've had lately, I'm actually a bit surprised that there aren't more mushrooms popping up in the garden than this pair. These more or less perfect specimens were lurking in our wildflower bed and I decided to photograph them before the squirrels started snacking. Although taken with a monochrome camera, a slight sepia tone gives a pretty close representation of their actual color. 

Skeleton Leaf Wabi Sabi

I discovered this leaf skeleton on the ground as I was bringing the recycling bin back to the house the other day. For most of my life, I referred to these objects as rotting leaves, but during the height of the pandemic, I ordered a small packet of these things from Amazon. I learned that they are called leaf skeletons, and folks like to scrap book with them. Anyway, the fancy ones were just too perfect for my taste. As it turns out, there are plenty of naturally occurring specimens like this one lying about. Fortunately, the studio cat decided not to rip this one to shreds before it could be photographed. 

Tasting notes: Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome and the 35mm f/2.8 Macro lens.