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gourd
I spotted this gourd vine, creeping across the hard and dry ground the other day. As far as I know, gourd vines do not find drought-summers to be too hot or too dry to flourish. Maybe we ought to shift our thinking and decide they would make lovely landscaping plants, instead of the always-need-water sorts of plants that we tend to believe we have to have in our yards.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.15.2022
a lens as old as I am
I just purchased my first vintage lens, a Wetzler Hektor 135mm f4.5. I chose that one for my first vintage lens because I didn’t already have a 135mm and because it was affordable. But mostly, I got it because that lens and I are the same age.
My favorite lens is a Leica Summicron 28mm f2.0; I shoot with it almost all the time and my brain is having a hard time getting used to how much closer things are when viewed at 135mm. But it’s good for my brain to have to learn something new, even if it is as old as a vintage lens!
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.13.2022
contestant 120
This image is the confluence of a few things:
- My friend’s daughter participated in a bodybuilding competition and so I tagged along, with a camera.
- I am trying to shoot more things that are outside of my normal range of subjects.
- I had that narrow depth of field assignment staring me in the face.
And this is what happened.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.25.2022
cattail
Here’s another image that I made for my online photography class.
Shooting a specific assignment that was subject to an image review by the instructor made me really nervous (even though the instructor is the nicest person ever). I had some ideas of shots and the first attempts at these pre-planned images were, in a word, awful. I felt a little discouraged but kept going, kept my eyes open for possibilities, and hoped I wasn’t going to be That Person in class with the stupid-looking homework assignment. (Also: with digital homework, you cannot use “the dog ate my homework” excuse. FYI.)
Anyway, I didn’t even notice this scene at first, but it eventually dawned on me that it held some possibilities for that assignment. Sometimes I can be remarkably slow at noticing the perfectly obvious things that are RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.23.2022
waves, abstract
A little more ICM, a technique that’s about as far from my usual documentary style as I think I can get.
It is a nice change, though, to blur reality; lately reality seems like it could benefit from being blurred and my own mental health will in turn (perhaps) benefit from blurry reality.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.19.2022
One Day | One Image 