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Leicas and Hog Callers
I have an offer to trade in my Leica M262 and my Leica M Monochrom for a new Leica M10. Oh, and I give them $1,400 cash. The deal is really both good and bad. I have until the end of the month to...
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March
I didn't go to the play or to the hog calling yesterday. Rather, I went to the March to End Gun Violence. Ili said the play was o.k. and my mother told me the hog calling was a bust. Now, as I am...
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Literalism
Used up a week's worth of photos in yesterday's post. Don't know when I'll get to make more. I was on my scooter when I saw this stuffed dog hanging out of a garbage can in front of a house in a row...
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Curator
I went to this show with Q sometime around the turn of the century. I took this photo with my old Voigtlander rangefinder. I think I will quit posting my own photographs here and use the photographs...
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Normal 2.0
I took another step toward "normal" yesterday. Feeling the need to be among "the throng" and not having much imagination, I went to the mall. It was a horrid thing. The interstate that takes you...
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The Realm of the Righteous
I wish I hadn't ordered the Olympus XA4. I don't think I can do it any more. I was excited. I thought, mistakenly, perhaps, I could make those Mark Cohen pictures now, so I grabbed my little XA and...
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Ghosts and Nightmares
Jesus. What a horrible end to a five day "vacation." It is back to the factory for me now. Last night, I somehow turned off my mother's a.c. instead of setting the temperature down. I woke up at two...
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The Power of Positive Thinking
One day, the mind just turns on itself, and you can only wonder why. It becomes darkly analytical about you, your past, your behaviors, and all its conclusions are negative. You tell it no. Try...
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Shall I Wear My Trousers Rolled
Sometimes even atheists feel like God just hates them. That is the only conclusion you can draw at a particular point. And then the only thing that matters is your response, or, as Bukowski said,...
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Fascinated by the Wrong Thing
Last night, I watched a movie on Netflix about the photographer Bert Stern. He was not the kind of photographer ever mentioned in my photo classes at the university. He was a commercial photographer...
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Dystopia
Anaïs PerryIt must be the weather. Surely it is. Summer here is always dull and flat and ugly. The streets are barren. Everything is beat--and not in the beatific way. Air conditioners hum as the...
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A Day of Respite
I gave myself the day off yesterday. I mean completely and totally off. It wasn't much different, really, than other days except psychologically. "Today I don't need to do anything." That kind of...
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P.O.F.
The world is too weird for me now. Trump is a genius. He has liberals siding with America's intelligence agencies. We're pulling for a porn star/stripper to bring him down. We're a hell of varied...
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When Were Times Good?
These ARE uncertain times. There is no doubt about THAT. But the times have always been "uncertain." Each era (whatever definition) is composed of unique circumstances and forces that dictate the...
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Need Weed
Yea, we all need weed. Or butter or oil or something. Life is hard. The earth is dying. As my mother says, "What can I do about it?" I don't have much of an answer for her. I've been trying since...
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New Knowledge
I hate that I didn't take this photograph. Who did take it, though, is surprising. William Eggleston. Why did he quit making photos like this in favor of photographing wires across ceilings and...
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All the Good People Lived Then
I wish I'd taken this picture. I didn't. She did. It was a self-portrait. I like it much. Of course, it is old, some thirty years or so ago. As Q says, all the good people live in the past. It...
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Convicted By My Own Confession
Maybe I'm not supposed to take pictures anymore. No matter what I try, I get into trouble. Yesterday it was pretty much that I had a camera in public. Hardly public. I was one block from the photo...
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Just Another Sunday
They didn't like me being around here with a camera, either. I want to shoot roller skaters, but the reality of it is going to be harder than I thought. Everything is. I have to leave this country...
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