FILM!!!

Last summer,  I decided to go retro... all the cool photographers are doing it. Shooting film, that is. Hindsight is 20/20 they say. Had I known, I would have kept my Canon SLR system. Hell, I would have kept my Nikon F3 system – yes, once upon a time, I veered from Canon, because, well, all the cool photographers shot with Nikon. Suffice it to say, I went back. I usually shoot with a Canon G9 or my Rebel xs-i -- one of the last cameras to be sold without video capability. At any rate, I decided to buy a 48 year-old Canonet. The things are known both as tanks and as "the poor man's Leica." I'll spare you the details, but what began as a deal on eBay, became a money pit that cost me about twice what I paid for it to work. But, work it does. It's fun but very limited--the highest ASA is 400 and focusing is tricky. Below are some of the first photos I took with it.

Saturday shindig, Silverton, Oregon

October 5, 2013

The Mayor

The Old Crumudgeon

The images below were taken in Salem, Oregon

sometime in October

CATCHING UP- October, 2013

10.1.2013

Halloween Decoration – 10.6.2013

Albany, Oregon – 10.6.2013

Early Morning, Across the Road – 10.20.2013

First Frost (1 & 2) – 10.29.2013

When Pigs Fly. Gates, Oregon – 10.20.2013

Gates, Oregon – 10.20.2013

Scio, Oregon – 10.25.2013

CATCHING UP – September, 2013

Wonky Farm – 9.19.2013

This is looking west by northwest from the poultry penthouse and quack house. I chose this because of the wide-angle distortion, looking like the background of some Thomas Hart Benton painting. 

"Ballad of the Jealous Lover" Thomas Hart Benton

Hate Camper – 9.25.2013

This is the camper back of a pickup truck that is often parked in a shopping plaza parking lot on Lancaster Drive in Salem, Oregon. Someone told me the owner is homeless. Clearly, there is a reason.

To borrow a phrase from that Great American, Kinky Friedman, the owner may sleep in the truck, but he is living out where the buses don't run.

Matthew McDaniel, Independence, Oregon – 9.7.2013

I met Mr. McDaniel just outside the city park in Independence. We got to talking and he told me he rode a horse across the country, ending up in Manhattan. Said he's done it twice. He heads up the Akha Heritage Foundation. He may be the only member of the Foundation for all I know. He did have an interesting story about the police escort he got from New Jersey...

What the stream said – 9.7.2013

Independence, Oregon

Women in windows – 9.7.2013

Independence, Oregon

The Taylor's Fountain – 9.7.2013

I took this through a window next to the locked and padlocked door. Sadly, there won't be any more 

ice cream sodas served at the counter...

Independence, Oregon – 9.7.2013

murciélago muerto-9.9.2013

My wife knows and loves me, which is why she brought a bat carcass home from a morning run. These are the same photos. The bottom one has been seriously manipulated in PhotoShop.

CATCHING UP - August, 2013

Didn't do a lot of shooting in August. But here are a few images I was happy with, including the first two, which I took outside of our house. I call them "drizzle catchers."

Plymouth PLanter – 8.24.2013

Goat Farm – 8.24.2013

Happiness is being in H – 8.24.2013

CATCHING UP- July, 2013

7.8.2013

My wife plants flowers and flowering bushes all around us. I spent an hour or so chronicling them. 

This one stands out.

Fan Study-7.7.2013

For some reason, I was taken by the standing fan. It reminded me of Marcel Duchamp.

Seattle Ready-Mades - 7.12.2013

The above were taken at a somewhat well-known location in Seattle. I have many more, 

but these seem to stand out on their own. I call them "ready-mades," in the spirit of Dada.

Mt. Angel – 7.21.2013

Newport Aquarium – 7.26.2013

(single exposure)

Above: Newport Harbor – 2.26.2013

CATCHING UP – June, 2013

 Cloud Studies – 6.2013

Irises – 6.6.13

Dog meets Coon – 6.2013

Each late spring/early summer my wife foster baby raccoons that have lost their mothers or have otherwise been abandoned. She works with the American Wildlife organization out of Mollala, Oregon. She had 5 babies when this was taken, outside. Otis, boy dog, could not quite get over the little bandit.