Looks Can Be Deceiving
On seeing this building, I was intrigued, spending more than a few minutes pondering what it was and what it had been. Imagination got the best of me, and horror movie memes came to mind. The barbed wire atop the chain link fence in the foreground added to theContinue Reading
Dancing Wu-Li Masters, Artfully
In the 1990s, physics fascinated me, and I read a few popular books on the topic. One that I enjoyed most was The Dancing Wu-Li Masters. It explains modern physics with an emphasis on quantum mechanics using concepts taken from Eastern religions. I remember being enthralled by how itContinue Reading
Sunday Splash
When my daughter was little, Sunday was Daddy-Daughter Day. Typically, we would go to a park and then have lunch before heading home. Sometimes, we would go shopping or wash the car—time together was the most important thing. One Sunday, we went downtown to stroll around Centennial Olympic Park. Continue Reading
VMLP 34: The Minolta-35 IIB—Inspired by Leica and Very Nice!
It had to happen eventually. Five years of reading photography blogs and magazines extolling the virtues of Leica cameras and lenses (and knowing of the Minolta-Leica collaboration) made me want to try Minolta’s Leica-inspired offering. I have used a Leica, and that initial experience was not a favorableContinue Reading
Putting Things in Perspective
These supports are maybe 50 or 60 feet high. From a distance, they don’t look that imposing, but standing just across the way from them is intimidating. They are a perfect example of perspective in drawing, watching each one appear smaller as it recedes in the distance. They areContinue Reading
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
