I spent this past Saturday, walking around Downtown Manhattan shooting the scenery with an old Pentax 35MM (ME Super) on 400 ISO Black & White with a 28MM prime lens. I feel that practicing “Old School” photography is a good way of maintaining basics of composition and exposure. The photos were only slightly retouched for cropping tone, and developing blemishes. Some of the results are what follows:
Ode to the Feral Cat
This is for World Poetry Day, an abbreviated version is on Twitter.
Ode To The Feral Cat
Here’s to the beast of wild,
As playful as an unrestrained child,
Who chases the mice and the rats and then,
Takes a nap and starts all over again.
An Unknown Visitor
Companion Blog
I have another Blog on WordPress https://makewaltznotwar.wordpress.com/
Publications
I publish my photography from time to time, usually through Blurb.com. My current list of print publications are:
http://www.blurb.com/b/5762731-aim
http://www.blurb.com/b/5475439-nude-art-figures
http://www.blurb.com/b/3378893-reflecting-light-8-spruce-street
A new edition of AIM will be due out in April.
Blogs of Note:
Worth mentioning here is the Blog of a friend and neighbor, https://picaflor1968.wordpress.com/
The beautifully written blogs is filled with his political and social commentary and original poetry and prose. Well worth a visit.
Product review of Wolverine Film Scanner
I have just written a review of the Wolverine F2D Super 20MP 4 in 1 Film Scanner on Amazon.com:
There are other product reviews there as well.
Pain & Grief
The photo above is part of an ongoing series I am developing of nude art photos which I call “Plausible Deniability” This one I call “Pain & Grief” , because of the powerful emotion represented by the imagery.
The photo below was taken in June of 2002 while travelling to Arizona. I spent the final weekend in Sedona, Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon. I was awestruck the whole day I spent there and vowed to return someday. The photo was taken on Eastman slide film (ie.movie stock) the kind that was developed by Seattle Filmworks (now defunct, I guess) and made into slides, negatives and scans. Thew scans are primitive by todays standards. I recently purchased a 20 MP Wolverine to update my collection of old slides and negatives. I will post these here from time to time. I still occasionally shoot film and work with digital scans.
From the Eye of My Pentax 