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I had a brilliant day yesterday . It started with a cycle down to the coast on a perfect morning. I had planned to go fishing but a stye tide hadn't dropped much I went to check the bees. As I was inspecting one colony I heard this amazing noise all around, and looked up to see a big swarm wheeling all around. Thye were entering a vacant hive right next to me. What a wonderful experience, to just stand there in this vortex of whirling bees. Leter I spent a wonderful hour at the edge of the sea watching the waves pounding up the sand. I also caught a Cod so was very happy. A cycle back home for a perfect day. Bloodbuzz Ohio is by the National , and is one of the few songs I have that mentions a swarm of bees. In this image from last year I'm imagining the mighty cloud is the swarm.
Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto at the Bergamo Center for Lifelong Learning in Beavercreek, Ohio
I am not a Catholic myself, but I enjoy spiritual places of all faiths.
Late night at the Lester household
Technical information:
Camera: Canon EOS 3
Lens: Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS USM
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Processed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab
A shot from last summer
Kodak Ektar 100
Canon EOS 3
EF 40mm f/2.8 STM
"Scanned" with a Canon EOS R and Sigma 105mm Mac lens
Negative Lab Pro conversion
Packard series
Packard Motor Car Company was an American luxury automobile company. It was founded in Warren Ohio as the Ohio Automobile Company by James Ward Packard, his brother William, and their partner, George Lewis Weiss. The first car rolled out of the factory on November 6, 1899.
Packard’s cars were considered the preeminent luxury car before World War II, and owning a Packard was prestigious. Henry Bourne Joy, a member of one of Detroit's oldest and wealthiest families, bought a Packard. Impressed by its reliability, he brought together a group of investors to refinance the company, soon after which Packard moved its operations to Detroit.
In 1953 (or 1954, depending on your source), Packard bought rival Studebaker and formed the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. Some historians believe that this was the beginning of the end of the company. It was certainly followed by a series of circumstances and events that ultimately led to the end of the company in 1962.
This series of photographs was taken at America’s Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio. The Museum is a restored Packard dealership transformed into a museum that displays twentieth-century classic Packards and historic Packard artifacts and memorabilia.
The dealership originally sold Packards in Dayton, Ohio beginning in 1908. It moved into the building that is now home to the museum in 1917. Robert Signom II, the museum's Founder and Curator for 27 years, acquired the building in 1991 and painstakingly rehabilitated it to its original Art Deco grandeur, opening the museum in 1992.
Car Collector magazine named the museum one of the top ten automotive museums in the United States. The cars on display range from 1900s Brass Era cars, the streamlined Classic cars of the 1930s and 1940s, to the modern Packards of the 1950s. The museum also has a collection of war machines, parts, accessories, and original sales and service literature.
Technical data:
Camera: Fujifilm GA645
Film: Portra 400
Home processed in Cinestill Cs41 chemicals
Scanned with a Canon EOS R with a Sigma 105mm macro lens
Colors converted with Negative Lab Pro
We all get busy during the hectic holiday season, but please let's not forget those less fortunate than we are. Too many people are having trouble keeping themselves and their families fed.
I've been there. It's hard.
Give what you can to the disadvantaged in your community and elsewhere. Every little bit makes a difference.
One way to do this is through the Little Free Pantries. Little Free Pantries are a resource from which to receive and a place to which to give. When looking for your nearest pantry to donate, consider your neighbors and what foods they might need. The Little Free Pantries provide food from neighbors for neighbors, and donating has a positive impact on the recipients, the givers, and their communities.
These pantries are open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. No ID is required and anyone is welcome to give and receive food from them. They are a no-barrier access point to food, but too many are empty or near-empty, like the one in the photo.
For more information and to find a Little Free Pantry near you, visit www.thelittlefreepantries.org/find-a-pantry.
Technical data:
Camera: Canon EOS 3
Lens: EF 40mm f/2.8 STM
Film: Kodak Portra 400 at EI 250
Developing and scanning: Memphis Film Lab
This lighthouse is very similar to the one at Fairport Harbor, Ohio
which is near to where I grew up.
link to cool video of the lighthouse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqGsAveAb8c&t=126s
link to many other lighthouses on Ohio shores of Lake Erie
Three years ago, Norfolk Southern manifest No. 149 is seen rolling past some NKP signal hardware in Conneaut, Ohio after changing crews east of town at Woodworth. The two veteran standard cab C40-9's have the train well in hand and will run into the night across the former Nickel Plate Road to Bellevue. Fast forward to today and both locomotives have been rebuilt, the signals replaced, and the train symbol has been abolished.
An Akron yard crew has climbed aboard this Wheeling 712 rock train and is taking headroom past the east yard board at Medina, Ohio to set off 25 Osborne's for the 661 crew to shove up the hill to the customer. This train incurred significant delays on its run from Carey resulting in a daylight trip east of New London.
I've heard opinions that film, particularly color negative film, is not sharp. I've also heard that lenses from the eighties and nineties are really not sharp. To the owners of those opinions, I respectfully present this image. While yes, it has been sharpened, so have most digital images.
I think the biggest problem that people who believe that film is soft face is that film, even when shot by a photographer who knows what she/he/they is/are doing, still needs a really good scanner with sharp focus and a really good scanner operator. Although I have an Epson Perfection 800, a dedicated 35mm film scanner with autofocus, and various camera macro lens scanning rigs, nothing beats a really skilled professional scanner and scanner operator at a professional lab except for a really skilled professional drum scanner operator at a pro lab. None of this, unfortunately, is cheap. If it were, I would likely consider shooting film only.
Technical data:
Camera: Zenza Bronica ETRSI
Lens: Zenzanon PE 50mm f/2.8
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Processed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab