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Waking At Night

27 Wednesday Dec 2017

Posted by David in Bloggers, memoir, Old Cameras

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I get up at night for many reasons, a full bladder, upset stomach, too hot in the bedroom, to name a few. Then there is the sheer boredom that is trying to sleep. 

So I head to the bathroom, urinate, go downstairs for a glass of seltzer to settle my stomach.  I read a bit of a butch lesbian pornographic/erotic love story that is completely engaging, look at some Tumblrs that I follow and discover a new one about French photographer Robert Doisneau. Suddenly I remember my promise to get my conventional 35mm SLR Pentax K1000 up and running again.

I remember a time 35 years ago when I first got it. I discovered the magic of 32 ASA black and white film. I started photographing old derelict buildings on two lane country roads in Lunenburg County, Virginia, tobacco curing sheds, abandoned barns, stores long gone bust, What happened to those pictures? There was the property settlement of that particular divorce. Did I get them out of the house? If so, where are they here? I fancied myself a photographer, dreaming of being one, embarrassed that my pictures were perhaps too imitative of the photographers I admired, Weston, to name one. 

Time to get back to dreaming with my hands. A Baptist preacher once told me “Prayers work when they have feet.” He was a pretty smart guy.

Macro View

21 Sunday May 2017

Posted by David in Art, Old Cameras, Smartphones

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This picture began when I hit the camera button on my phone by mistake.  Rather than an “Oops” followed by delete. I decided to save it. 

I love the detail. It reminds of pictures I used to take with my macro lens back in my analog photography days.

Checking Out The Equipment

05 Tuesday Jul 2016

Posted by David in Old Cameras

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Many years ago, in a simpler time, I used my 35 mm Pentax K-1000, Single Lens Reflex camera a good deal.  Then everything went digital. I stood still. OK, I was broke too.  This morning I got out the camera and lenses. I was afraid I had never unloaded the film from the camera the last time I used it, at my elder son’s first wedding in 2002. But I had.

Now what do I do? Do I go buy some film and try it out? I think yes.  I guess going from film pictures to digital images represents a challenge, but there is a scanner I could hook up. We shall see.

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