# 5703-06 / around the house (sunlight)•civilized ku ~ that doesn't make me a shallow person, does it?

(embiggenable) • µ4/3

(embiggenable) • µ4/3

(embiggenable) • µ4/3

THERE CAME A TIME-ABOUT 12 YEARS PAST-THAT I purchased a "normal" lens-50mm equivalent-for my µ4/3 cameras. At that time, I had begun to desire soft backgrounds / foregrounds (aka: narrow DOF), relative to my point of focus, as opposed to the rather everything-in-focus characteristic of semi-wide>wide angle lenses when paired with a small(ish) sensor.

Truth be written, I never really committed to making pictures with that lens (25mm f1.8 M.Zuiko). It seemed that my picture making vision is inexorably linked to semi-wide lenses such as my much used 17mm f1.8 Zuiko (34mm equivalent). Although, I have comfortably transitioned to the 24mm equivalent lens of the iPhone.

In any event, over the past few days I have been making pictures with the 25mm Zuiko lens, a few of which are presented in this entry. It seems that my narrow DOF inclination has returned to the fore. An emergent condition that I would primarily attribute to my use of the Portrait feature of the iPhone. A feature which works really well 95% of the time, and, has the added bonus of being able to adjust the DOF (albeit background only) during the post-picture-making processing.

I am not certain where this is headed, picture making wise other than to write that I will be taking a µ4/3 body, with the 25mm M.Zuiko afixed, along with me when I leave the house. Even gonna give it a try with my idea of picturing old / "traditional" gas stations.

(embiggenable) • iPhone / narrow DOF simulated in processing (not the Portrait feature)

civilized ku # 4063-66 (remains) ~ patinaed testaments

It should come as no surprise, at least not to me, after this past weekend's picturing spree - which included the not-what-they-used to-be pictures - that, after a search through my picture library, I have more than enough not-what-they-used to-be pictures to justify a new body of work. That written, while I believe the collection holds together, referent wise, I am bothered by the fact that there are, to my eye and sensibilities, two picturing M.O.s apparent in the work; 1. a structure pictured in its environment, and, 2. a structure pictured independent of its environment (see yesterday's entry).

iMo and to my eye and sensibilities, the first M.O. places the structure within the context of place whereas the second M.O., by means of emphasizing the divorced-from-environment-context relationships of color, shapes, and tones with the frame, is more graphical and, dare I write it, more Fine Art-ish.

At this time my intention is to be more accutely aware of picturing opportunities in order to add to the seen better days body of work. However, within that awareness I will be looking for referents which fall in the non-contextual and the contextual M.O.s with the intent of dividing the work into two separate - contextual / non-contextual - collections.

civilized ku # 4059-62 ~ not what it used to be

lucky13 ~ Saranac, NY - in the Adirondack PARK (click to embiggen)

blue chimney - Westville, NY (click to embiggen)

deer racks ~ Standish, NY - in the Adirondack PARK (click to embiggen)

oil tank ~ Standish, NY - in the Adirondack PARK (click to embiggen)

Drove over 468 miles this weekend - 3 trips back and forth, from home to Hugo's home rink and back. During those drives I stopped along the way enough times to make 20 pictures.

One referent I kept coming back to was that of things that are not what they used to be. That's a referent which is in great supply throughout the Adirondacks / northern NY. Although I suspect that this is not the only region in the good ole' US of A where that is the case.

Maybe there's new bod of work in it.