Square Pinhole at the NJ Shore

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New Year’s Day 2024. I took a trip to the shore for a group shoot with the Essex Photo Club on NY Day, as is the club custom. We went to Asbury Park, NJ this year, which has a nice shore and boardwalk. It’s seen better days, but it’s also seen worse. The town has been through trials and tribulations and is slowly getting revitalized. The boardwalk was obviously redone, so it’s very new. We got there around 9:00, which is pretty early for New Year’s Day standards, so it was very quiet. I was using my new Reality So […]

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Noblex at the Auto Graveyard

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I’ve had this Noblex for a few years now. A 135U model that went to the Noblex spa at Noblex Canada in Vancouver to get its drive roller replaced. I also have a Horizon 202 and a borrowed Widelux F7, but the Noblex is really the gem of the swing-lens panoramic cameras that have been made in my opinion. These cameras made in Germany in the 1990s were designed to be a modern iteration of the Widelux. They are electronically-controlled and the drum spins a 360 degree circle vs. the ~140 degree arc that the Widelux and Horizon/Horizont use. These

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Reflection Photos

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I was in Boston for my daughter’s wedding in early December and it rained copious amounts for one day and left nice puddles in the street. These are photos captured with the camera pretty much on the ground I used the Laowa 7.5mm ultra wide angle on my Olympus E-M1.2, as that’s definitely the best for these sorts of photos. I find that it takes getting very, very low to get anything usable. And all that sky in the background can be very tough to manage, especially when it is white. This is a series in the making, but first

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ICM Red Steps

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Red Steps slow exposure. I paused, which probably made the yellow leaves show through. This was the best of about 10 photos. I like those taken with the Olympus EM-1 mk2 better than what you usually get from the iPhone apps, where it often takes a bunch of photos vs holding the shutter open>

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Master Lock

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Yes, it’s a Master Lock. Saw it hanging on a closed-for-Saturday business in Philly and the sun was hitting the lock and the background was in shadow. Not a spectactular image, but I thought it was pretty good. I didn’t feel like setting up for focus stacking, so it’s got a pretty narrow DOF. Olympus E-M1 mk 2 12-40/2.8

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Holiday Bulb

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Another photo from my random walk around a restaurant in Rittenhouse. I think it was the Green Egg Cafe? It was the daytime and they had all these decorative bulbs hanging out over their outside patio. It was too cold for outside eating and the tables were stacked on top of each other in “storage”, but the strings of these lights remained. They were overhead at around 7’, so I had to stretch to get a bunch of shots. Some like this one were in a sunbeam and there was a dark background. I took probably 10-15 photos trying to

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Table shadows with lonely leaves

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So you’re waiting for a restaurant in Rittenhouse square in Philadelphia….that has a too-long-a-wait. What do you do? Walk around and find a few photos. It was fall in November in Philly and the sun was low. There were shadows of these pedestal tables on the stone patio and I found some random leaves that had blown in. The leaves were NOT placed there, but they just as easily could have been. Nothing spectactular, but interesting none-the-less. Olympus E-M1 Mk 2 12-40/2.8

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Unorthodox Frames

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These two are from the Auto Graveyard in Southern NJ. AGAIN! LOL. If you hunt around, you find very unusual compositions there. The first is frame in an old bus, IIRR. But I loved the idea of a tree growing out of the bus beind a windows. The second is of a bunch of cardboard boxes in the back of an old bus.

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Junkyard details

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More details from the auto junkyard. I got about 150 good photos at this place and I’m sure if I go back, I will get 2-300 next time. You can just look for details after details for hours. I got tired of the overview of stacks of stuff, but the little details were much, much more interesting. I think that I ended up with around 50 real keepers in color. All with the Olympus E-M1 mk 2 and the 12-40mm or the 7.5mm

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Junkyard Black and White

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While in the Auto Graveyard, there was so much machinery scattered about. Anything you could imagine Power Supplies. Industrial generators. Old TVs. Aircraft cockpits. Industrial presses. The list goes on and on. There were a couple that I particularly liked. The second on especially spoke to me. I had to take out my reflection and clean up the edges, but it made a nice shot, if I do say so myself. Olympus E-M1 mk 2 12-40/2.9

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