Cloudy day... settled on the mountain nicely.

Practicing vehicle pix when I go out riding.

I think putting vehicles in context in their environment by pushing them to the edge of the frame is interesting. Since they're tools as much as designed works I think the place a car or bike is is also important. I feel like more of an un-impressionist tho so

I should take my helmet off the bike when I take pictures... next time

Practicing people photography. It is kinda cool to take pictures of people doing stuff...

I've been shooting my Minolta 45mm f/2, so it can only do stop-down metering, and since the R8 has an electric shutter, it's totally silent. A neat trick

there's a lot less romance in aviation post-WW2

From the top of Lava Butte in the Newberry Volcanic Monument

taking pictures of the back of people's heads

"some guy" is like the second classical photo subject after "whats outside the window" but I always feel a little weird about it. It feels exploitative in Tha Current Environment and I get too in my head about it. I don't wanna be doing ~street photography~. eh !

it's a good opportunity to frame at speed, though

Weed growing in my front yard is gathering bugs for mysterious purposes...

handheld w/ a sigma 70-300 macro, holding my breath, at 3200iso. having microscopic depth of field at f/5.6 is sooooo juicy

gooses encroaching and retreating

Ilford Ortho 80 gives me... surprisingly nice bird pictures. I might've gotten lucky with the exposures but I always have trouble getting well exposed crows. Being so slow and on such a bright day there's lots of detail, too.

100mm lens probably helped also

oaks park is such a funny little spot

Went on a trip thru southern oregon and stopped at Natural Bridge. It's a lava tube that's now a river tube. The rogue river shoots thru it for 200 feet, it says. Hurls itself out through holes in the tube roof and at the end, so it's all frothing white water.

Also saw a big ant on the bridge (manmade, not natural) examining the hand rail

the back wall of this building has the remnants of some sliding panel shades, I think. It's all brick from the 10s or 20s, maybe it says 1907 in the picture, bud

I think I could take this again. I've been pondering just sitting in one spot at a park or something and taking the same picture a bunch of times to hammer in composition. For this, I think a wider shot more to the left, if I could get more of the building in...

i forgooooooooooot uwah

found a snail shell while I was in the woods, so I wanted to take a picture of it. Had to go find a spot with good light, but then I moved a little so the shell was more in shadow. I think that was kind of a mistake, tho - my fingers completely blew out, and the shadow on my palm looks kinda weird. Probably would've been better if my fingers were dim and the shell was bright.

Next Time...

eye damage off the willamette

I think this was at f/5.6 and the camera still wanted more than 1/1000th, so the neg was kinda dense. I snapped this one quick, before the boat got too far through. composition feels good, I didn't crop it much. I think it's nicely balanced :thumbsup:

v glad about darktable's framing module. It's good to play with, good to mat your photos. perhaps sometime I'll get around to printing something again...

the dirty doubler

went out for a walk in 90F sunshine with a mavica mostly to play with it. The less I think about the picture the better they turn out, I think

also learning to play with things in darktable. I turned the saturation up a little bit on the base, and pulled it all out of the flowers with the color equalizer. Pulling the color out of the flowers left them with a halo, so I pulled that down too, and that kills the brick background.

The little bit of color that's left in the center and the grey-on-green contrast I think pushes focus where I want it, towards the flowers.

the light was v nice in the forest yesterday. Bunch of leaves lit from the top. In #2 I had the sun directly behind a tree so I wouldn't blind myself lookin through the camera