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Dinky little box turtle

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:28:31 +0000

Poking out its head after a long winter.

Supping on a bud

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:06:03 +0000

This was made with the 18-55mm Fuji lens, which is also awful for color IR pictures but, again, just fine for black-and-white ones. I like the tones in the infrared, too -- looks almost like old orthochromatic film -- except, of course, that skies are white with ortho, and they're dark in IR.

Rhubarb and afternoon sun

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 22:33:04 +0000

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I can't wait for the first big thunderstorm clouds that come along now, because with the IR camera set to black-and-white, they will be really, really dramatic.

Doesn't look like a fisheye picture, does it

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 22:32:16 +0000

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The cool thing about the Rokinon fisheye is that if you compose carefully you can avoid a lot of distortion.

Monochrome dandelion

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 22:31:51 +0000

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Truth is, I find black-and-white infrared to be far more dramatic than false-color infrared, anyway. (I would have realized this had I not been so in love with Aero Infrared Ektachrome 50 years ago.) So I switched the camera to mono, and life is so much sweeter. For instance, this picture was made with the 60mm Fuji macro lens, which is unusable for IR in color because of its terrible hot spot. But no color, no hot spot!

The conductor Hugo Vianello

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:58:21 +0000

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In rehearsal in February 1973 for a production of "Carousel" at the soon-to-be-destroyed Stephens College Assembly Hall in Columbia, Missouri. Shot with the horrible 43-86mm Auto-Nikkor zoom on Tri-X at ASA 4000 and processed in Acufine. Hey, it's all we had back then.

A happy accident

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:49:56 +0000

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Taken one morning as I was loading the camera to go shoot a story. Always took one extra to make sure I wasn't still fogged at the leader. And see? It's good practice!

Harsh reality

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:11:33 +0000

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Every journey begins with a single step . . .

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:51:48 +0000

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. . . followed by another step, and another, and another. Nor have we any idea what awaits at the end.

Ancient fisheye experiment continued

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:50:30 +0000

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Same tech specs as the previous one. Camera stores used to have atmospheres not unlike those found in pool halls. At least the items on the "used" shelf are more easily identified in this one.

Ancient fisheye experiment

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:43:12 +0000

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This was taken using a 10mm OP fisheye Nikkor -- on a Leica M4. It was at Fox Photo in Columbia, Mo., where the Nikon salesman was visiting and demonstrating new products one weekend in 1970. I stacked on the M4 first a Leica M mount to Leica screw adapter, then a Canon SLR to Leica screw adapter, then a Nikon F to Canon SLR adapter, after which I stuck on the Nikon fisheye just to see what would happen. This is what happened. It was taken with 2475 Recording Film at some ungodly high ASA and processed in the trick 2475 developer. The experiment was technically a success but a practical failure. Not that I would have ever spent the price of a whole camera with several lenses on a fisheye, anyway, even if I'd had the money, which I didn't. Fisheyes tend to be kind of cliches. (If you look closely, you can see some interesting things on the "used" shelf, including two Olympus Pen F bodies, some Pen F lenses, and a 16mm Bolex movie camera.) At right there are signs for "Circus Showtime," which was a promotion of Kodak Carousel slide projectors. It is sad to think how many people now have never seen or used a slide projector or a projection screen. They should have to suffer as we did!

In the church kitchen

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:34:16 +0000

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I'm glad I don't have to look at these three over a poker table!

One way or the other

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:19:39 +0000

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KFRU newsroom, October 1965

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:20:20 +0000

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Word came today of the death of Dick Cottam, who for many years broadcast from this booth at the back of the newsroom at The Columbia Daily Tribune, at 7th & Cherry Streets in Columbia, Mo. Reading the news is Eric Engberg, later of CBS News Cottam was the first radio guy I ever met in person, when I was a tiny kid and he was covering the Cosmopolitan Club's annual Pancake Day. Engberg replaced Cottam as news director when Cottam went to NBC.

With a little magicfication . . .

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:57:22 +0000

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. . . it gets scary!

Common in nature

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:21:06 +0000

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Cold but bright morning, sun on the other side of the trees. What drew me to this stark image is how common it is in all kinds of natural phenomena: satellite pictures of river systems are of this pattern. Our own circulatory system has many of the same aspects, as do mountain ranges, the support structures in leaves, and so on. I think it's cool. Also pretty.

In a Cheshire, Connecticut, graveyard

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:02:55 +0000

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Leica M4, 35mm Summicron, Tri-X, D-76 1:1

Oldtimers

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:34:57 +0000

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Kind of clapped-out clapboard, in the country in Carpenter, Ohio.

It's rollin' round the bend

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:03:00 +0000

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This picture was used as the graphic on the Marjorie Thompson CD "Right By Me," available at www.MarjorieThompson.com .

Cheery hay field

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:17:15 +0000

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This is the color version, slightly differently composed. Which do you prefer?