Priorities, priorities and more priorities.
Baking cookies and Banana bread or taking pictures.
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24 Elmar
I guess the old adage is true one can have their cake(cookies and banana bread) and eat it too (shooting with an assortment of camera bodies and lenses) More to come
Just picked up an M10-P and 50 Summilux Pre-ASPH from a friend, it'll make things easier to post while I wait to get film processed. I'll try to contribute soon.
That's very good news. I took the picture below with the first Summilux 50 version (based on the Summarit 50/1.5) and an M2, a beaten up kit that had belonged to an Australian photographer, Heide Smith. Her best known work is a book of portraits of the Indigenous Kiwi people.
Here is a quote from David Alan Harvey on his 500,000+ follower Instagram, on a shot of a tree in his garden:
My backyard Nags Head. I see this everyday but only shot it straight up like this today. In this moment I thought what can I do ?? I’m surviving thousands dying yet we are all on the precipice no matter how “safe” at this moment. Taking photographs around my house keeps me sane yet does no good for the cause unless I somehow make them work. So I’m thinking to take my scribblings and my pictures from NOW and make a few hand made books maybe with a print from my darkroom which is 30 feet from this tree ...anyway a one of a kind collector book and ALL funds raised going to a Covid related charity. I’m a voracious shooter anyway and I’m always playing around the house with film Mamiya with Polaroid with my phone with GFX, with Q with whatever .. so I can make something .. of course I’ll contribute prints, portfolio reviews, critiques whatever I can manage to help those in dire need all along the way. Our @burnmagazine grant is coming up along with Fujifilm Young Talent award so we will direct that grant funding in the direction of Covid. My mind is racing yet I’m moving slow deliberate willful..Soaking up every sweet minute. What else to do?...Show more →
DAH has often recommended shooting in and around the house; but he lives in the Outer Banks (in North Carolina), which offers dramatic scenery and frequently changing weather conditions, not in a nondescript suburb of a large metropolis. He has more interesting things to photograph around his than most of us. Still, there are things one can do. The best example I can think of is Lee Friedlander's book, Stems. In 1994, housebound after knee surgery, Friedlander photographed the stems of fresh flowers in cut glass vases with water, which his brought him daily. It's a beautifully printed book with macro shots. Incidentally, wonder whether they were taken with a DR Summicron.
I've only shot a few images around the house, which I've posted here. As I wrote there is not much I can do about my Empire of Signs, apart from selecting and reprocessing previously shot images...
____________________ Frog Leaping photobook
Nothing special. Had to walk to the store to pick up some medication so I decided to bring the M10P and 50 with me. Having had the M10 previously for a couple years I immediately appreciated how quiet the P shutter really is.