stretch your wings

500mm f6.3 1/500s ISO:100

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Ode to Shurrell

This is a photograph I took last week in a parking garage.  I used a late 1950's Ricoh 500 shooting Kodak T-Max 400.  This is a full manual range-finder camera with split sight focus and a bottom mount thumb action lever to advance the film.  Ricoh saw fit to put in a fixed 45mm lens at f2.8.  It has screw-on attachments to convert for wide and tele shots.

This camera was originally purchased in Korea during the war by a US VET.  He lived behind us during my high school years and gave the camera (and accessories) to me because I was interested in photography.  I used the camera for many of my class projects over the years in high school and college.  This camera has been well taken care of for 50 some years... and still shoots a crisp clean shot.  I've given this camera to my daughter now as she starts her photography classes in high school.  I'm sure that in '57 this camera didn't expect such a long life.

Thank You Shurrell.

here is a shot of the vintage range-finder.

fisheggs

This is a male sunfish guarding his nest.  Notice the small fish eggs under him.

See you back here after labor day.

just to walk

Today, To Morrow

500mm f4.2 1/40s ISO:200 & ISO:800

Morrow Mountain State Park, Albemarle, NC

We were out for an afternoon drive on Sunday and found ourselves driving through a state park.  Deer are not uncommon if you are looking forward them, but it is usually females that you see.  This day we were lucky enough to see an eight point buck.  We watched for several minutes and they went about doing their own thing.  

Jonathan Livingston...

dinosaurs take air

my blue ocean unveiled

46mm f10 1/200s ISO:100

I took my camera into a salvage yard one day and explored.  I found this old car with severely weathered paint.  I suppose I could have stood 15ft away and taken snapshots of the entire thing.  That is what most people do right?  Well,  I took my "get low" shooting style right into the hood.  The previous days posts can show you that perspective and imagination can transform most anything.  See what you see and share it.  Someone else designed and created the things we see everyday.  We need to Am. Idol them sometimes when we take photographs...  you know... "make it our own."

continent

46mm f9.0 1/125s ISO:100

coastline

88mm f9.0 1/160s ISO:100

Oxidized blue paint fighting off the bare metal rusted invader.  This car's hood has seen better years.  The shallow DOF offers a T/S effect and a 10,000 foot view of a vacation paradise.  I suppose we really can see things in different ways if we just look.

pretty in pink

126mm f7.1 1/200s ISO: 100

toes get tickled

80mm f5.6 1/640s ISO:100

brine biodomes

200mm f5.6 1/1250s ISO:100

shoreline bubbles

80mm f5.6 1/1600s ISO:100