2020

Two half-innings before the storm came.

2020, Baseball, Beyond 200 feet of My House™, Favourite, Film, Filter (Yellow), Inspiration, Kodak Tri-X 400, Leica M2, Leica M2-R, Portrait, Scanner - Plustek 8200i, Sports, Voigtländer 40mm f/1.4 Nokton

Two photos from two halves of the very 1st inning… before the rain stopped the game.

Photographed through the chain link fence.

—Peter.

↑ Leica M2-R, Voigtländer 40mm Nokton f/1.4, Kodak Tri-X 400, and Plustek 8200i.

The Conversation.

2020, Favourite, Film, Inspiration, Kodak Tri-X 400, Leica M2, Leica M2-R, Portrait, Scanner - Plustek 8200i, Voigtländer 40mm f/1.4 Nokton, Within 200 feet of My House™

This is from Test Roll #1 (evaluating my M2-R and Voigtländer 40/1.4).

I thought I was shooting @ f/1.4, but realized too late I was @ f/2.8… hence the underexposure.

Still, I like the moment that was caught; in fact I like it more than anything else I’ve done lately.

—Peter.

↑ Leica M2-R, Voigtländer 40mm Nokton f/1.4, Kodak Tri-X 400, and Plustek 8200i.

Photographic Funk.

2020
funk1
/fəNGk/
INFORMAL: noun: funk
  1. NORTH AMERICAN
    a state of depression.

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I’ve been in a photographic funk.  This is quite evident in my images, if you’ve been watching.

They say this happens to every photographer at some point, though I never thought it would happen to me.  Mostly because photography has always helped me get through the difficult times in my life; it was the cure for whatever ailed me.

Lately, it’s felt more like a curse.

I’ve been chasing technology, rotating through the latest and greatest.  It is a process I always engaged in to some extent, in order to expand my experiences and learn new tricks; sometimes I did it just to stimulate the creative juices. But that’s no longer working.  I feel like I have strayed too far.

Though I have been out and about — for walks, bike rides, etc. — I’ve had no desire to bring a camera with me.  It all seems so silly to create yet another image to add to the millions of other images uploaded into the ether on a daily basis.  Painters, sculptors, musicians, writers:  they create art.  The rest of us: monkeys taking snapshots.

So, for the first time in a long time, I am without a single camera or lens.

They’re all gone, and I couldn’t care less.

—Peter.