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When the light’s a certain kind of intense, I really love my photos in black-and-white. Just a few minutes before sunset…my last walk of the day passing our wee side meadow to the back meadow and below to the bosque. Passing alongside gramma grass, drying and curling for the winter, wind-broken taller spikes of feathergrass in the back meadow. The low angle intensity of the sun.
Dazzles my old brain.
Living in high desert country is still striking after 33 years, so different from my coastal New England youth. We had 1/2″ of rain, yesterday. That’s about 7% of what we had all of 2018. Lot 4 is located in the Santa Fe River valley, the bosque…at 6300′ altitude. The clouds of mist rising from yesterday’s rain – downstream, behind me – are rare.
Anyway, I took the selfie just to record my new “David Gilmour” haircut.
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…doesn’t include the setting sun.
Including – at one time – hats almost impossible to keep on your head in any breeze stronger than a gnat fart.
One of the most thoughtful writers who maintains a spot on the Web [as well as elsewhere] is Om Malik. Some may not be aware of his talent as photographer. Leica has certainly noticed. They’re showing the photo above on their Instagram account.
More of his work over here.
…trying to pick a flower.
❝ In 1984, photojournalist Steve McCurry was in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan. He followed the sound of voices to a tent where he found a group of girls. “I noticed this one little girl off to the side that had his incredible set of eyes that seemed almost haunted — or very piercing,” he tells NPR’s Audie Cornish.
McCurry snapped a picture that ended up on the cover of National Geographic’s June 1985 issue. “The Afghan Girl” became one of the magazine’s most widely recognized photographs — and one of the century’s most iconic. To get that shot, McCurry used a type of film that has become iconic in its own right: Kodachrome.
❝ The film, known for its rich saturation and archival durability of its slides, was discontinued last year to the dismay of photographers worldwide. But Kodak gave the last roll ever produced to McCurry. He has just processed that coveted roll at Dwayne’s Photo Service in Parsons, Kan. — the last remaining location that processes the once-popular slide film.
❝ What’s on that landmark roll of film is still under wraps. It will be the subject of an upcoming documentary by National Geographic.
Looking forward to it. I love photography. Started taking pictures in my high school camera club in the early 1950’s. Three cameras gathering dust in my desk include my favorite little backpacker’s special Rollei 35B I bought in 1971. The occasional snaps you see here on my personal blog are – of course – iPhonography.
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What does that look look like to you?
