From the same walk as the other 850nm shot of the bushes. Olympus E-M5.1 with an AliExpress 850nm deep IR filter. 1. I passed by a trash can and wondered if the dark green of the plastic would render different in IR. It did.2. A little garden next to the sidewalk. Nice in Infrared3. Geometry of the curbs and storm drain4. A drainage grate
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So you have 20 minutes before a doctor’s appointment. What do you do? Do you stick your nose in your phone? Or do you take that camera that you brought with you and do something with it? Of course, I went walking. I brought my Olympus E-M5 Infrared camera with a new-to-me $25 850nm filter from Ali-Express. It came and had no edge marking, so I had to make a little thin label, or I’d never remember what this super-dark filter was. I walked by this professional building and saw black, concrete-filled car barriers with dark green bushes in front
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More frames from my Canon Demi EE17. This is a very nice half-frame camera. The more I use it, the more I like it. Nice bright finder. Auto-exposure via SS-preferred. Yes, it’s a zone-focus camera, so no rangefinder. But that’s not a huge issue, at lease not for me. The AE has been very good for me. I have a CRIS adapter in it to convert for the PX625 battery. I especially love the first one with it’s shadows. All photos with bulk-loaded Kodak 5222 Double X in HC110 B. My favorite emulation combo right now. The images are sharp
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More photos from Covington, GA in September. Wonderful, pastel colors in ordinary items like the Zinnia’s at the end of their summer glory by a building. A rust-covered screen over a derelict building. A vine covered window that has seen better days All with the Olympus E-M1.2 and the superb 12-40/2.8
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Had the 6×6 Cube pinhole from Chroma.Camera out and tried a few photos with Fomapan 100. Not 100% happy with what I got, but it was interesting. I think the pinhole isn’t right and I got a lot of light leaks around the back window. I think I am the victim of a Mk 1 product and I sent the camera and it’s 35mm Cube camera back to Steve at Chroma to get them both replaced. Got these two, which were OK, the first one is better.
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Bought a Nikon F3 a few months ago from Goodwill in Wisconsin for $300 total shipped. It looked nice, but I was unexpected for HOW nice. It was in a nice brown ever-ready case that had probably been on the camera since new. The only rubs were next to the strap lugs, otherwise it was pristine. No service, No cleaning. It’s is a great camera and I LOVE the HighPoint finder as it’s the only film SLR that I’ve ever owned that I can see the whole finder. I loaded it up with a roll of bulk-rolled Kodak 5222 Double-XX
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Unexpected photos from a 1960’s Canon Demi EE17 half frame camera. The Kodak 5222 Double-X is a tad grainy, but it’s sharp. Developed in HC110 Dilution B for 5 minutes. I love the striped shadows. No special subject, only the sun shining through a railing at my Mother-in-Law’s apartment.
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A wonderful old wrought iron staircase in Covington, GA town center. Wonderful scenery here of a classic Southern town that was passed over by Sherman during the Civil War, sparing all the old ante-bellum homes of the era.
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I invite you to peruse my new-ish Gallery of Window photos. I’m working on several. Currently live:
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Went to the beach in September and only took one camera aside from my phone, my little Chroma.Camera 35mm film pinhole camera. I’ve had mediocre results with this camera, but maybe I need to think differently about it. I took it down to the water in Sea Girt, NJ where the ocean shore has nice scenics. I focused on abstract, simple images like these, where I only took photos of the water and the surf. I decided to use Ilford Pan F+ film, which I hoped would help with fine detail. This is the result, at least the first of
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So i thought that I was finished with the photos of the hay field, but this one was sitting in my “To Post” pile and I just had to put it up. I know almost no one reads this BLOG, but I still use it to post the images that I feel are my favorites and show my growth in photography. 2023 has been a good year for me for photos and I’m really, really pleased at what I’ve done. There’s nothing that’s going to win a national photo contest, but I don’t shoot stuff that would win those awards
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Nothing stupendous, but I see a lot of neat photos of brooms or mops behind local, small town businesses. They’re often nicely colored and offer great contrasts between brick work and tool. These with yellow heads were especially notable to me. Olympus E-M1.2 with the 12-40/2.8
