the new snapshot # 82-85 ~ on the road again
I will be publishing entries as I go.
kitchen life # 39 / civilized ku # 5084-85 ~ the beat goes on
ku # 1414 / the new snapshot # 79-81 ~ an iPhone camera module update
And, although I have no way of illustrating it on the internet, I have been making very good looking 18"x18" prints from the iPhone made and processed / edited files. Prints that, when viewed from a print size appropriate distance, are virtually indistinguishable from prints of the same size made from a "real" camera with a 12mp sensor.
All-in-all, some very good stuff.
the new snaphot # 72-78 ~ a big scare
As it turned out, after consultation with the hotel staff, the only solution was to move to another room which was closer to their router. In the ensuing clusterf**k of moving all our stuff, my camera bag was left behind in the first room. That was a fact I did not notice until we were packing up to leave.
It immediately dawned on me what had happened. The hotel manager came and opened the first room where upon it was discovered that the cmera bag was not there. Knowing that the bag had never left the hotel during our stay, theft was the only possibilty inasmuch as the room was not used after our departure from it because of the wifi issue.
What followed was an incident report to the hotel corporate headquarters and a police theft report after which we left the hotel and went to the hockey rink for Hugo's last game. After the game we got in the car and headed home.
During the early part of the drive, I received a phone call from the hotel manager who informed me that might camera bag had been found. According to her story, there had been a mis-communication between her and the assistant manager who had discovered the bag in our first room, brought it to the front desk and placed in a spot other than the lost-and-found.
Coincidence (or not), the bag was discovered after the police had visited the hotel to ask some questions and take some names.
Nevertheless, what ever the true story (which very well may be the one conveyed to me by the hotel manager), the camera bag is on its way to me via UPS and should be in my possession by this time tomorrow ... happy, happy.
the new snapshot # 70-71 ~ night in the not big city (it's a town)
I have downloaded the Squarespace blogging app to my iPhone and will attempt, tomorrow, to post an entry using it. Maybe it will work. maybe not.
the new snapshot / mistakes #1-3 ~ it happens to the best of us
But here's the thing. I really like a surprising number of my "accidental" pictures. And, relative to my the new snapshot pictures which attempt to repicate some of the foibles of traditional snapshot pictures, these accidental pictures fit right into my snapshot making activities. What a wonderful coincidence.
fYi, some of the other snapshot foibles which I intend to explore / create are: over / under exposure, extreme backlight with dark subjects in the foreground, bad focus, bad cropping (heads partially cut off and the like), light leaks / fogged portions of a picture and awkward facial expressions and body gestures / positions.
Many of these foibles will necessitate the making of staged pictures, aka: tableau vivant. Or, some, such as fogged film and missed focus, will have to be created, aka: faked, with effects / processing using one iPhone app or another. As far as I am concerned, that all good with me.
quiet landscape # 1 ~ now for something completely different
However, that written, there are times when, in my picture making, I am confronted with a scene which is, in and of itself, rather simple. Hence, my new body of selected works labeled as quiet landscapes