I have been getting out early to catch some of the nice morning light. I think my little Felica would rather sleep in. The Felica has two shutter settings and two aperture selections. To use the larger f-stop you need to guess the focus accurately. Sometimes it works, and sometimes not. The simple lens at the wider f-stop still provides sharp focus at the selected focal distance, but the three position scale is not much help in achieving the necessary precision. The Felica is still a fun little shooter, though. If I get ambitious, maybe I'll try to subdivide that focus scale.
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It's a positive thing when photography gets us out and about, no matter what the creative results are.
For me, a quest for interesting subjects to photograph rekindled a dormant interest in hiking and long, late afternoon, magic hour walks on the beach.
The late Leica photographer Tom Abrahamsson once told me "One roll is a good walk. Two rolls is a great walk!"
I knew a fellow in Las Cruces who was a photographer and a biophysicist. He was very dismissive of my habit of waling around with my camera and snapping pictures of whatever I came across that interested me. He obviously was very disciplined in his approach to work and play both, and any random activity seemed to him to evidence a disordered mind. I did not try to argue with him about the issue. However, it does seem to me that quite a few well known photographers have permitted themselves to rather randomly explore life's possibilities.
William Eggleston comes to mind. Most of my photos are 'wandering around' in nature as well. I almost always have a camera in hand and I have taken some shots I really like walking from my car to the door. I like these of yours too Mike. The light is definitely working for you.
To be fair to the guy, he was actually more a painter than a photographer, so his point of view fit with his artistic objectives. Still, I think those of us who walk around snapping pictures are just doing what photography has permitted since its inception. We are able to capture all the details of a scene instantaneously. Of course, one can also take a methodical, painterly approach to making photographs, but it is a matter of choice and not an imperative.
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