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Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Oct 3, 2015.
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In August 2015, I had the great pleasure of taking a week-long photography workshop in Rockport, Maine under the tutelage of Peter Turnley. Its main theme was street photography, and we made several visits to working-class neighborhoods in several Maine towns where (unbeknownst to me) there are large populations of working-class immigrants from Somalia, Sierra Leone, and various other countries around the world.
In addition to the Sony RX-10 and Sony A-7 cameras that I normally use, I also rented a brand-new Leica “Q” camera for the class. It’s roughly equivalent to driving a Rolls Royce, which I’ve never done; and because the list price is $4,000 for a camera with a single fixed-focal-length 28mm lens, I very much doubted that I would buy one for permanent usage.
I uploaded roughly half a dozen "test shots" that I took with the Leica., which you'll see elsewhere in this Flickr album. And when I got back to NYC, I discovered that there were a few photos that I had taken with my little Sony RX-100 Mark IV "pocket camera" -- which I shot while walking from my dormitory room over to the main campus building for breakfast, before the class began ...
These aren't prize-winning shots, either, but they were sufficient to persuade me that, at my mediocre level of competence, I can probably get equally good results from my Sony cameras than I can from the awesomely superior Leica Q.
9th roll of film
Kodak gold 200
Canon AE-1
Canon FD 50mm f/1.8
Scanned with Plustek Opticfilm 8200i
Re-scanned and re-uploaded in better quality
NOTE:
The standard disclaimer still applies: That's a wooden decoy -- anchored
to the bottom of the lake -- that the egret is standing on.
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Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada.
The initial plunge strikes a ledge which directs the flow outward from the cliff resulting in a spectacularly messy waterfall (Note 1). Because of its separation from the cliff, cross winds have a big impact. I also did video, which shows that the heavy wind-driven mist (Note 2) is actually moving upward. Total height of falls is 384 meters (1260 feet).
Looky what came in the mail today!
A box full of stuff from a friend that has "Moved on" from Lego.
Mwaahahaha.
>:D
The sad thing is, most of it was megablox.
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Please click L.
(I can't read it...French or Belgiums, please help. Update: it says: 'Comptabilit'e Plantations' -whatever that means.)
My 2nd book on abandoned houses is out very soon! It will be ready for ordering next week, I think.