Month: May 2023
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50 Years Ago Today
It can be hard to recall what I did last week, but 50 years ago I was working in Berchtesgaden. The photograph below was taken on the porch of my Uncle Walter house on his 65th birthday. I visit quite regularly to see relatives who continue to live in the area.
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Sunglasses
Tuesday, our Cycle Group got together for our first bi-weekly ride of the year. We usually ride every second Monday, unless that day falls on a holiday, which it did this year: Victoria Day. As most were wearing sunglasses, I didn’t face the blinking-eye problem.
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Lights
In a New York Times article, “Turning Off the Lights Does Save Electricity”, published February 3, 1974, the advice was to turn off your lights when not in use. Turn off lights when not needed. If all three million customers in New York City and Westchester County cut off a single 100‐watt bulb that might…
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Imagination
A big thing in photography is the notion of pre-visualization. That is, you see a scene or something in front of you and you imagine what that might look like as a photograph. One could imagine all sorts of transformations, even as simple as what it might look like in black and white. Having said…
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Continual Refinement or the Art of Fiddling
Fiddling:Adjective: fiddling little details: trivial, petty, trifling, insignificant, unimportant, inconsequential, inconsiderable, negligible, paltry, footling, minor, small, slight, incidental, of little/no account; informal piddling, piffling, penny-ante; British informal twopenny-halfpenny; North American informal nickel-and-dime, picayune; North American vulgar slang chickenshit. ANTONYMS important; large Oxford Thesaurus of English There is something engaging about fiddling; not with a violin…