Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
More snow, but not a lot. The pictures (particularly the first) are a bit misleading. The snow didn’t stick to paved surfaces so the roads, and more importantly my driveway were clear. Still it was rainy, cold and snowy for the entire day and I didn’t really feel like going out so the pictures were taken in/from my garden.
Taken with a Sony A7IV and adapted Minolta MD 50mm f1.4
I’d just returned from taking the dog for a walk when I noticed the late afternoon sun streaming in through the French doors.
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II.
Seen at a local craft show/flea market. I liked the bright blue colors and the stretched shape of the figure.
Taken with an Apple iPhone 6s.
I was washing the dishes when I saw this small jug on the window sill in the kitchen. It must have been there for years, but I never noticed it until today, when some nice light coming through the window picked it out.
Taken with an Olympus OM-D EM-10 and Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-42 f3.5-4.6 II
I think it’s fair to say that 2020 was not a good year. It started well enough with the final days of our trip to Switzerland (Geneva) and France (Paris) and then went downhill from there. In February I had some fairly serious surgery, which initially went well but later led to some complications, which while not too serious led a period (from February to August) where I didn’t feel up to going out and taking pictures. During this period, of course, the COVID Pandemic started which didn’t help matters. Eventually the health issues were sorted out (at least for now) and after some additional surgery I started to feel stronger. Then tragedy: my wife of 42 years passed away suddenly and unexpectedly after a very short (just over two weeks) illness.
Since that dreadful day in October however, I’ve been going out a lot, walking the dog and taking lots of pictures. In past years I’ve divided them into two separate posts: color pictures and black and white pictures. This year I haven’t used a single film camera (I do most of my film photography using black and white film). Moreover, I haven’t done many black and white conversions of my digital images. So it didn’t seem worthwhile to do two separate posts.
Above: Watching the Sun go down at Scarborough Station.
