Bill Frissell - A guitarist you should know
May 21, 2018Mo’ Peoples Photos
May 20, 2018Remi Noel is today’s featured photographer. Check out his site. He has am American ’ Lets take a road trip’ sensibility
Katherine Turczan has very interesting photography and I would encourage readers to spend a bit of time going thru her galleries AND reading her essays.
Sunday Music
May 20, 2018Other People’s Pics
May 19, 2018Thought it would be nice to show case other photographers that I’ve admired. The first one is Inland West
Mitch Dobrowner has some of the most powerful storm photos. Consider that many are shot in B&W!
Bad weather can be Beautiful
May 19, 2018Not my GIF but beautiful it is.
THE soundtrack for Kansas
May 17, 2018While traveling the back roads of Kansas this album came on. Perfect backdrop for this trip. Pat was born in the midwest and is a Leo for anyone that cares. He’s 10 days older than me so he’s automatically in the Leo Club that I run on the side :)
A week in Kansas and other adventures
May 17, 2018Besides going to Manhattan , KS to celebrate my sister-in-law getting her PhD I had a chance to goof around in the state. The photos below were captured on Old Highway 24 - this is the same Highway 24 that is seen here in Colorado and is literally where I was born
Also on Highway 24 is the nearly abandoned Nicodemus, KS (pop. 17) which is the first town settled by freed slaves west of the Mississippi . They were mostly from Kentucky and sold the idea that Nicodemus was a Garden of Eden. It was anything but. They were free and could make of their lives what they wanted to. This was good enough for them. The National Park Service has an installation telling the story of Nicodemus. The docents are dependents of the original settlers which makes this so much more salient
The next stop was the Air Museum in Liberal , KS. Many of the planes were owned by a Texan who donated some 50 or 60 planes. He flew them to the museum himself.
On the way home I stopped in at Gobblers Knob rest stop which was mostly filled with trucks
A week in Kansas
May 17, 2018The main point of going out to Kansas was to celebrate my sister-in-law, Robin getting her PhD in History at Kansas State
A small tempest in a teapot erupted when I pointed out that the mascot and colors of KState are the same as my Alma Mater, Northwestern University
Wildcats and Purple and White. NU was established 1851 12 years before KState , so I rest my case!
Stuff of the Internets
May 9, 2018Everyone wants to rule the World
May 9, 2018Welcome to your life
There’s no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you acting on your best behavior
Turn your back on Mother Nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
It’s my own design
It’s my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most
Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
There’s a room where the light won’t find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I’ll be right behind you
So glad we’ve almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world
I can’t stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that you’ll never never never never need it
One headline why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world
All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
What’s Going On
May 9, 2018Tuesday Funnies
May 9, 2018Black and White Photography is NOT just a Filter
May 9, 2018Film is NOT dead - It just smells funny
May 8, 2018Bad Bad News
May 8, 2018Leon Bridges - just a great song….. Rap/Jazz
More Funnies for Monday
May 8, 2018Let’s Boogie Tonite
May 8, 2018Monday Detritus - look it up
May 8, 2018Airstream Club
May 8, 2018It’s so much more than gathering for a weekend and looking at each other’s rigs. It really is the people and connections that you make. You meet so many amazing people with a diverse set of skills, stories and personalities. The help you can get is amazing.
It also helps if you’re a dog person as many folks bring their canine children
Luke has a “bar car”- a sort of bombed out Airstream that has been converted to a bar - lots of fun.
Let’s not forget the sites that we get to take in….
Rolleiflex Automat- 60 years old and going strong
May 3, 2018I purchased this Automat version the Rolleiflex over 15 years ago. It is probably 60 years old itself. I decided to have it refurbished with Harry Fleenor who is legend in this field. I had just finished reading more about Vivian Maier who had done much of her work with a TLR ( twin lens reflex) camera such as the Rolleiflex. She took amazing shots on the street so I was emboldened to get mine cleaned and updated. It is not the easiest camera to use compared to today’s cameras. Even compared to other film cameras this is one that requires preparation and patience. You have no light meter so you have to use a supplemental one or guess. It takes 120 film in the 6cm x 6cm format giving you just 12 exposures per roll. This right there makes you think about every exposure. That being said you are likely to have a higher ‘hit’ rate than with a modern digital camera. With digital, so many shots are made simply because we can not because we should. Getting 120 film processed is also not easy , especially color varieties. Black and White is not so much a problem is you are used to developing it yourself as I am. Scanning them is also a process not for the faint of heart. I have a multiformat scanner that does both 35 mm and 120 so for me at least it is nothing special to get them digitized. Here are some examples from my first roll. I shot Tri X at ISO 400 and developed in HC110B
The NEW TMax 3200
May 1, 2018New from Kodak - when was the last time you heard that phrase? Well this is the new Tax 3200. I shot it at ISO 1600 and developed for 9:15 in HC110B.
Saal-Digital comes thru
April 30, 2018I want to give a two thumbs up for Saal-Digital and their lay flat books. Just had one published by them and was blown away by the sharpness and professional look.