Favorite Colors
Favorite colors have different domains—those for clothes may not be the same as those for cars. My favorites for flowers are yellow and purple and various shades thereof. So far, the yellow flowers have been prolific. The tickseed has spread everywhere the wind blows (not necessarily a good thing). Continue Reading
A Sunday Morning Stroll on Peachtree Street
The weather has been hot and, oddly, drier than usual. A few Sundays ago, the morning air was actually slightly cool—a rarity in June. Peachtree Street is a busy thoroughfare, except on Sunday mornings, so I decided to stop by Midtown. My first visit to Atlanta in 1986Continue Reading
VMLP 33: Minolta Semi III—My Little Piece of History
Folding cameras were not supposed to be part of the VMLP. I was drawn to SLRs and was quite happy limiting my photography journey to them. That feeling held until I used an Autocord. Yes, the Autocord is a TLR, but the 6×6 negative yielded such clear,Continue Reading
Critters 20, Bee Balm 1
I’ve had bee balm since 2014. Every year, it sends up 20-30 3.5-foot-tall scarlet flowers. After a few years, I discovered a raspberry variety that bloomed longer and looked better over the summer. I planted raspberry and removed the scarlet (to the extent it’s possible to remove bee balm). AfterContinue Reading
Bet You Didn’t See These Coming: The Nikon N80 and Canon EOS Elan 7
By May 2019, I was three months into my photography journey. My camera collection consisted of a Maxxum 7000i with a crumbling grip, a Maxxum 5 with a discolored focus screen, 600si, 7xi, 700si, 7, and 7000. It had been maybe a little more than a month since IContinue Reading
Thinking Beyond 50mm, II: Going Long with the Minolta AF 135mm F2.8
Taking only a 135mm lens out for a walk proved to be just as jarring as the 24mm. Taking the 24mm and 135mm out on separate walks has given me a new appreciation for quality zooms. As with the 24mm, I quickly discovered I’m a poor judge ofContinue Reading
Bloom Time!
The first flowers appear with the creeping phlox in March. Next come the catmint, tickseed, and coneflowers, sometime during April. But true bloom season always begins the last two weeks of May. If there’s a lot of rain it may move up a week or so. TheContinue Reading
Album Art
As a child, few things were more sublime than a bowl of cereal eaten leisurely while reading the Sunday comics. My sisters and I would each scheme to be the first to grab the newspaper. Newspaper comics, in color, happened only once a week, and scarcity made them more cherishedContinue Reading
Headaches Using an M1 Mac, MacOS Ventura, Epson V600, and Epson Scan 2 Software
The Epson V600 arrived in 2020 when the pandemic closed everything. My first scanning setup paired the V600 with a 2012 MacBook Pro. Once I got the correct drivers, that combo worked fine. Then, two years ago, without warning, my Mac died, and I got an M1Continue Reading
VMLP 32: The Minolta X-600, a Little Something Extra
For me, the Minolta X-600 was only a little less mythical than the Minolta Sky. I had seen references to the X-600 in passing but had never seen anyone mention one until a member of the Minolta Collector’s group showed pics of his newly-arrived prize. Intrigued, I searched forContinue Reading
