We here in Maine are coming down with a bad case of Spring [or 'Cabin'] fever. We can feel that Spring is just about to be sprung.
Temps over the weekend reached into the 50'sF and the annual great melt is underway. It's still below freezing most nights, so we have a ways to go, but we can feel it coming.
On Saturday we cranked up some jazz, got the wood stove blazing, and opened up one of the French doors to the backyard for the afternoon to let in some fresh air. It was exhilarating.
My son enjoyed it so much that he asked to do it again today. But we only got to 33F, so the window has passed.
Photo/technical notes: These images were taken with my 'poor man's Leica Q'. aka my Canon with a 20mm f3.4 Voigtlander manual focus lens. It's not the fastest lens, and not the fastest to use either. I'm still re-learning the predictive manual focus skills of my youth. The shot of him dancing is not as sharply in focus as it could be, and the shutter speeds as the light faded got pretty long. But I really enjoy the image quality of this setup, and you'll probably see a lot more of it in weeks to come.
Funny thing. I owned this lens for a while up until two years ago, and took many of the photos on this site with it. At that point I went through a cleansing, I've spoken of it often, where i came to the realization that 'equipment doesn't matter', and so forth. With this in mind I got rid of all the oddballs in my kit and attempted to focus on a few core, flexible, pieces of kit. But I missed this lens for it's unique qualities, and jumped at the chance to re-aquire one.
Hmmmm. I remember an old axiom that said something like 'If you love something, set it free. If it returns, it's yours forever.' Guess that's apt here. :)
You'd never get away with telling a Leica or Hasselblad owner that 'the equipment doesn't matter'. Maybe they have a point. I do enjoy this particular lens quite a bit. We'll see what else, if any, returns to the flock.
Temps over the weekend reached into the 50'sF and the annual great melt is underway. It's still below freezing most nights, so we have a ways to go, but we can feel it coming.
On Saturday we cranked up some jazz, got the wood stove blazing, and opened up one of the French doors to the backyard for the afternoon to let in some fresh air. It was exhilarating.
My son enjoyed it so much that he asked to do it again today. But we only got to 33F, so the window has passed.
Photo/technical notes: These images were taken with my 'poor man's Leica Q'. aka my Canon with a 20mm f3.4 Voigtlander manual focus lens. It's not the fastest lens, and not the fastest to use either. I'm still re-learning the predictive manual focus skills of my youth. The shot of him dancing is not as sharply in focus as it could be, and the shutter speeds as the light faded got pretty long. But I really enjoy the image quality of this setup, and you'll probably see a lot more of it in weeks to come.
Funny thing. I owned this lens for a while up until two years ago, and took many of the photos on this site with it. At that point I went through a cleansing, I've spoken of it often, where i came to the realization that 'equipment doesn't matter', and so forth. With this in mind I got rid of all the oddballs in my kit and attempted to focus on a few core, flexible, pieces of kit. But I missed this lens for it's unique qualities, and jumped at the chance to re-aquire one.
Hmmmm. I remember an old axiom that said something like 'If you love something, set it free. If it returns, it's yours forever.' Guess that's apt here. :)
You'd never get away with telling a Leica or Hasselblad owner that 'the equipment doesn't matter'. Maybe they have a point. I do enjoy this particular lens quite a bit. We'll see what else, if any, returns to the flock.
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