hiatus

New camera, a need for software to understand it, and life. It all makes taking photographs confusing. Maybe I should buy a film scanner and be done with it. It was so simple. The day I get CS3 I search the internet for the RAW converter for my cutting edge technology digital camera only to find out I'm already obsolete, that CS4 is rearing it's ugly head to make those of us new to CS3 feel that much more out of date. And a new computer with an uncalibrated screen. For all I know the image for today is lime green and pink. Oh well. I'm sure I will be up to speed shortly and maybe I'll even find a day to take photographs again. That might be alright.

Birthday Jam

Here's the rest of the set from the Birthday Jam.

portraits

A good friend of mine lent me a Leica M3 film camera. "When do you want it back?" I asked. "I'll let you know when, let's leave it at that," he said. It's an amazingly soulful piece of equipment, heavier than you would imagine, and it feels very good in your hands. Since the camera was generously loaned to me by a friend I figured a reasonable first chore for it would be to take pictures of my friends with it. It's been fun but I'm not done yet. There's still film in the camera and it goes most places with me. For now this is a good start. I would suggest clicking on the slideshow button to view the set.

Jarvis

I should take more pictures of people.

An aside, I was recently made away of Elliot Erwitt. He's one of those photographers we all know but didn't realize who he was. A surprising number of his images are very familiar, we've all seen them before, but at least I have never given him credit, never realized they were all the product of one man.