Justfolk's photos

A. dropped by the office to ask me about something she hoped I'd know about. I took advantage of her visit to take a few pictures. This was on Legacy Pro 100, expired already a couple of years when I took the picture in early 2012. I finally developed the film this week, only 28 months later. I like the photobooth-like strip. I was using the Rollei 35TE. The original scan was very hefty, but I resized it way down to a half-meg for here.

My mernlaw died six months ago in her nineties. This week most of her small things were distributed among family members and, in anticipation of the distribution, they were laid out on tables. These are some of them, making an interesting scene.

I have long been afraid that this plant, in the stairwell outside my office, is going to be mistaken by someone as being near death and get taken away. A note in its pot asks that passers-by refrain from watering it. Probably a Begonia, hey?

We were at the post-funeral party for my wife's uncle Sam, my uncle-in-law. Sam was 91 when he died last week, while his sister-in-law, Regina, on the right, is just a year younger. Sam's long-time friend John, on the left, is a mere child, about ten years younger again. I was the youngest at this table.

Milly was describing the glass of wine she got somewhere else. A minute later, she got one much smaller than that.

I've shown several pictures of this store as it collapses into the salt water over the past six or seven years. This past weekend, I got a chance to take a picture from the water. You can see the remains of the boardwalk that went down the hillside to the store, but both the slip (which used to be on the left) and the stagehead along the front of the building over the water, are gone altogether. The upper door has collapsed and just looks like a big broken window, but the lower door on the stagehead side is still there. There was a much bigger door (a "garage-door") on the left side where the slip went up from the water. They used to haul their boat in through that one at high tide.

This small iceberg has been hanging around the Arm for a month, drifting around, getting caught up on rocks, melting a bit, turning over, losing bits . . . just generally bobbing around. And melting. On Sunday morning (June 29th), when I took this picture, it was about 120 feet (35m) long at the waterline. Today it is much smaller because we have had a lot of hot weather. Some of this berg is now in people's freezers, including mine. It makes for entertaining ice cubes in drinks since it is filled with pressurised air that spits and fizzles as the ice melts. This picture started as a RAW file in the Olympus E-P2. I'm not used to working with RAW files and I hoped that I could get more detail in the highlights than I have. I like the general picture here but for those highlights.

Glenn's book was in great demand at his official opening and signing.

Since I was getting half-second exposures in my office, I thought I'd turn the camera to see what resulted. This is another bit of fun with the fisheye lens (9mm f/8) on the Olympus E-P2. Border added in PSP X5.

My record player still plays records. But these days I have to move this guy out of the way first. He's pretty creepy but he doesn't scare *me*. This was taken with the 9mm f/8 lens on the Olympus E-P2. More fun with the fisheye. Even at the top ISO setting (6400), it was dim enough in that corner of the room to need a one-eighth of a second exposure with an f/8 lens. Vignetting and noisey border added afterwards.

I took this this evening just after sunset with the EP-2 and the 9mm fisheye lens. Given that it was a quarter-second shot hand-held, it is a good thing it has stabilisation.

She does often like to get in close when I point a camera at her. This is with the 9mm f/8 "body cap lens."

This is a shot with the 9mm f/8 "body cap lens" by Olympus used in my case on the E-P2. It wasn't really dark, though the sun had just set. Nonetheless, with an f/8 lens I had to shoot the ISO way up to 6400 (tops on the E-P2) and live with a shutter speed of 1/13 second. I'm not especially steady at slow speeds, especially after a couple of beer and some wine!, so it was good I had the E-P2's stabilisation thingey turned on. We were waiting for the cake.

For a long time I have thought I would like a fisheye lens. This week I got the so-call "body cap lens" from Olympus, a 9mm fisheye. Like any fisheye, in the right environment and held properly, it can give a fairly rectilinear image. But in most cases it gives that fisheye-look. Very nice in brighter light, but since it has only a single aperture, f/8, it ain't the fastest lens in the bag.

Tom and I are neighbors though at a half kilometre's distance. That great, gaping, crawling, construction hole that late last summer was in front of my house is now in front of his. With that daily activity outside, he is having his tea in his sidewalk seat rather than on his doorstep seat, and that gives him more opportunity to chat with passers-by. Stripped of its colour, through a mainly-red filter, and with local contrast judiciously managed, as well as a border added, all in PSP.

This graffito probably has a specific meaning and, being in my seventh decade, I am oblivious to it. But I like the sound of it. Kodak ColorPlus 200 in Olympus Pen D3. Border built in PXPX5.

We'd walked the three miles to Fort Amherst, and back afterwards this afternoon. We were pretty warm in the wind. Most people had driven. They appeared to be pretty cold. And the bergs *are* pretty cold-looking. But there is a steady stream of people trying to get good views. These two icebergs have been more or less where you see them for a week or so. They are grounded, I think, but they may just be caught in light currents. The one that looks to be three pieces was a big arch a week ago. Fujifilm X100. Processed in PSP X5 to add vignetting, local contrast, and a border.

This slow-motion implosion is a favourite thing for me to aim cameras at. Again today, I used the long 70mm lens on my Olympus E-P2. I scrambled out onto an outcrop of rock at the end of our garden to get this picture.