Pandemic portrait
This is Evonne on a stroll in a park last fall. At some point last year, we ordered a pair of masks from Route One Apparel, who carry a whole line of Maryland-themed items. I got a Maryland flag one and she got this Old Bay seasoning one. (My main masks are a Chicago flag and a Maryland flag. Maybe I should buy a California flag one just to complete the theme.)
I realize that non-Marylanders may not even know what Old Bay Seasoning is. It's the only acceptable seasoning for Maryland blue crabs. It's also really good on potato chips. Utz briefly supplied their "Crab Chips" to the Chicago market a few years ago and I was in heaven. But I doubt that Chicagoans understood that "Crab Chips" contain no crab, and are just seasoned with the seasoning that Marylanders put on crabs. (Oddly, Utz is, I think, the best brand of crab chip despite the fact that they use imitation crab seasoning instead of real Old Bay.)
This is from a test roll I took with a Nikon N8008 that I acquired last summer before we left Chicago. My aunt's sister mentioned that she had an old camera that was lightly used and no longer wanted. I think she was hoping it was worth something but unfortunately these 90s plastic Nikons are just not very valuable. I used to shoot with an N6006 until the film door latch broke, so I was excited at being able to replace it. The N8008 is a higher end model but also slightly older. So it has some fancier features that the N6006 lacked, like a multiple exposure mode. But some aspects are more primitive, like the lack of a spot meter. (I was about to write that the matrix meter isn't as good, but now I can't remember why I think that. Anyway, the N6006 had a really good meter.) I had to clean the gunk out of the battery compartment to make it work, but it seems to be mostly good now. The one thing wrong with it is the LCD inside the viewfinder is smashed, so you can't see the exposure settings while shooting. Not so terrible but not good for manual mode.
Tenuous link: crab
Pandemic portrait
This is Evonne on a stroll in a park last fall. At some point last year, we ordered a pair of masks from Route One Apparel, who carry a whole line of Maryland-themed items. I got a Maryland flag one and she got this Old Bay seasoning one. (My main masks are a Chicago flag and a Maryland flag. Maybe I should buy a California flag one just to complete the theme.)
I realize that non-Marylanders may not even know what Old Bay Seasoning is. It's the only acceptable seasoning for Maryland blue crabs. It's also really good on potato chips. Utz briefly supplied their "Crab Chips" to the Chicago market a few years ago and I was in heaven. But I doubt that Chicagoans understood that "Crab Chips" contain no crab, and are just seasoned with the seasoning that Marylanders put on crabs. (Oddly, Utz is, I think, the best brand of crab chip despite the fact that they use imitation crab seasoning instead of real Old Bay.)
This is from a test roll I took with a Nikon N8008 that I acquired last summer before we left Chicago. My aunt's sister mentioned that she had an old camera that was lightly used and no longer wanted. I think she was hoping it was worth something but unfortunately these 90s plastic Nikons are just not very valuable. I used to shoot with an N6006 until the film door latch broke, so I was excited at being able to replace it. The N8008 is a higher end model but also slightly older. So it has some fancier features that the N6006 lacked, like a multiple exposure mode. But some aspects are more primitive, like the lack of a spot meter. (I was about to write that the matrix meter isn't as good, but now I can't remember why I think that. Anyway, the N6006 had a really good meter.) I had to clean the gunk out of the battery compartment to make it work, but it seems to be mostly good now. The one thing wrong with it is the LCD inside the viewfinder is smashed, so you can't see the exposure settings while shooting. Not so terrible but not good for manual mode.
Tenuous link: crab