A crooked tree

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There are only so many colorful, autumnal pictures that you can take and I’d decided that I wouldn’t take any more this year.

Then while walking the dog in the woods I came across this lovely, crooked tree. I liked the way the dark green leaves stood out against the brighter colors in the background. I just couldn’t resist it.

I would have liked more separation from the background, but unfortunately the lens has a maximum aperture of f3.5 and so this wasn’t possible.

Taken with a Sony A6000 and Industar 50 50mm f3.5 lens.

Fading Flowers

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We recently received a bouquet of lovely flowers. After a while they were starting to fade so I decided to take a picture of them. The light was rather low and I had very little room in which to take the pictures so the focus is a little off and the picture is a bit blurry. I thought it would be appropriate to give it an “old time” look.

Taken with a Sony A6000 and Industar 50 50mm f3.5 lens.

Happy Birthday Dad

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It’s Hallowe’en today and at least here in the United States everyone is celebrating – at least as much as they can while under the threat of COVID.

However, to me October 31 will always be my father’s birthday. Had he lived he would have been 101 today. Here he is in his WWII army uniform. The rear of the photo has an inscription in his handwriting, which says: “To mother From Tom”. I found this interesting because my grandmother never called him Tom, always Thomas.

Scanned old photograph.