Tterrific photograph from Stoney Creek. A bit surprised to hear about the GFX given its robust build, hope the folks at Fuji can sort it out for you. I
This chap is a retired professional draftsman and has been sketching everything under the sun at The MET for two decades. I have had several conversations with him and is a super nice person. Purchased two of his small drawings (stack under the seat) in exchange for a couple of photos.
Cheers Serge, the GFX did get dropped 6 feet down a rocky gully with water at the bottom in NZ so pretty I'm impressed it still works at all !
I used to be a draftsman and I can't draw like that although to be fair I spent most of my time using AutoCAD after initially starting on a drawing board with pens etc.
Actually, that was out after the breakup in 1970/71.
""Kodachrome" was the lead single from his third studio album, There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)" The musicians on this session were the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
Paul Simon – vocals, acoustic guitar
Pete Carr – acoustic guitar
Jimmy Johnson – electric guitars
David Hood – bass guitar
Roger Hawkins – double-tracked drums
Barry Beckett – Wurlitzer electronic piano, Hammond organ, tack piano
Uncredited – horns
Ken Hill wrote:
Simon and Garfunkel sang a song titled Kodachrome with the lyric telling “had a nice bright color.” More important the song told of a Nikon camera which set the seed for my first Nikkormat purchase. That evolved into the F2 with the 55mm 1.2 and the love of MF glass.
I'm still kicking, I think. Sorry about the two sudden departures from your life.
Lovely shot of the creek!
cadman342001 wrote:
Proof of Life !
Hope everyone is well (had a couple of shocking sudden departures in my life recently, 1 the manager of the tyre depot we use for work and another a childhood friend, both sudden massive heart attacks).
My GFX is still going, takes a while to warm up, shutter button works, takes more pics than I want, then refuses to take any, then works ok. My P.C. 28mm f3.5 is also wobbling around, letting light in if I don't hold it together !
James Markus wrote:
Serge.
Thank you for the trip to the MET today. Good story about an artist and a Renoir. btw, the Fuji S5 has such excellent color.
My pleasure, James. I enjoy photographing art and Renoir is my fave subject for vivid colors.
The Fuji S5 can produce great colors after all these years.
Back up and running, so here's an image of a boring rainbow. Only difference with this one though, is that it's on this side of my trees. And no...no pot of gold.
Ray, nice warm glow and reflections from the o-35/2.
Verona is perhaps best known as the setting of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.
Juliet's house, the original dates to the 13th century and belonged to the Capello family. It was purchased by the City of Verona in 1905 and was shortly thereafter totally rebuilt without much regard to its original design.
Capello resembles Juliet's family name Capulet, the similarities combined with Imagination and clever marketing transformed the home to the popular attraction it is today. The small balcony overlooking the courtyard was added in the 1930s to complete the Shakespeare description.
Letters to Juliet number 50,000+ annually and are responded to by secretaries that work in the home.
Bronze statute of Juliet ca1969, was replaced with a copy in 2014. The original is at the house museum.
I find it hard to pass up the chance to photograph a tree standing by itself. I always wonder if it was intentionally put/left there or if nature put it there.
Finally a photo that shows the end of the rainbow. I was at the end of rainbow at a Mobil gas station in Fowlerville, Michigan many years ago. It drifted over us as we pumped gas with tiny sparkling sunlit droplets of water that would swirl as I and the customers dragged our hands through the air. The colors slowed changed as it drifted.
leighton w wrote:
Back up and running, so here's an image of a boring rainbow. Only difference with this one though, is that it's on this side of my trees. And no...no pot of gold.
BTW. Listening to a CSNY channel on Apple Music. Now playing “Searching for a Rainbow” by The Marshal Tucker Band
leighton w wrote:
Back up and running, so here's an image of a boring rainbow. Only difference with this one though, is that it's on this side of my trees. And no...no pot of gold.
