Wallace Koopmans Artlog

I have to say as far as the luck of things coming together for a an image it did for the one of the old man and the child along with the large and small tug boat.

Early morning walk before my meeting.  Malls devoid of people and cars are somehow eerie, like something less benign than consumerism lurks inside.

Ok I’m no wine expert but I don’t think this was a very good year. 

This was shot with the Kodak Retina IIIc in case you got past the wine barrel garbage can connection.

So I received my negatives back today from Lens and Shutter who also supplied me with this camera.  If you read my first post about this camera I wrote how the 50mm lens had been damaged,  well that had little effect on the actual images.  So here are some samples and also views of the camera itself with the 35mm lens and viewfinder attached.  The 50mm lens does have considerable barrel distortion which I have corrected in Lightroom where it mattered.

OK that’s it for blossoms not only because they are mostly gone at this point but isn’t that enough?  That’s a rhetorical trick question, if you like blossoms it’s never enough and if you don’t then seeing them in infrared isn’t going to calm you and make you at peace with nature.

It certainly is thank you for pointing that out.

All too soon the blossoms will be off the trees and that nice background fragrance that fills the air will be swept away in the breeze with them.  I considered not posting these pictures until the fall when the freshness of spring would be in short supply, but maybe the feeling they evoke is as ephemeral as they are.  So with that thought here are some of my favorite blossom pictures I took this year. 

Wow I didn’t realize weeks went by so fast.  Well here is my week three image.

You may notice that is is the same scene that I took with my Pentax ME in a previous post.  I like to compare the look I get with different cameras,lenses and films.

I had a difficult time keeping dry while I snapped a few shots in the nearby community of Mission.  I had my Pentax ME super tucked inside my jacket with a SMC 40mm 2.8 lens on it.  It was nice to use an SLR instead of a point and shoot or a rangefinder for the ability to preview the image in the viewfinder.  I really change cameras too often to be able to get a solid sense of how any one of them will frame a scene from what I am seeing in the viewfinder. 

That’s a mournful declaration.  Made all the more melancholy by the method of delivery.  I can image someone taking the time to tape together the sign and then writing this.  They must believe that the person they miss will read this and feel the same way too, but I doubt it.  Tape on a pole seems like a last resort.