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We all get our “comeupance” from time to time. Got mine again this morning. I take part in a local gallery’s shows here in Pensacola, Florida. The Artel Gallery in downtown Pensacola is open to all sorts of contemporary art. … Continue reading
While not quite antipodes, these two pictures are pretty much on opposite sides of our planet. The left picture is from a spot near the Muckross House in Ireland. The other is in the Outback of Australia. Both were shot with a Leica M6 on Kodak Tri-X film. The Muckross picture was from the back of a horse drawn cart using a 21mm, f/2.8 Elmarit lens in 1990. The outback was shot with a 90mm f/2.8 Tele-Elmarit in 2013. I also used a deep red filter in the Outback and regret not doing the same in Ireland. Live and learn as they say.
As antipodes go, at least these are on dry land and reasonably accessible. The antipode for my hometown, Pensacola, Florida, is somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Pretty much the same for Atlanta, Georgia, my home for the last forty-five years, just a different part of the same ocean.
April Fool’s Day marked three months since driving to Florida for our next chapter. If inspections go well, we should own a house and be official Florida residents before the end of April. To mark the occasion, and to have reason to post photographs, here are some pictures from this recent period.
Pictured below are L-R (1) A couple of old buddies leaving one of Pensacola’s legendary dive bars, The Elbow Room. (2) Early morning fog in downtown Pensacola. (3) One of the local pelicans that keeps popping up in many of my pictures.
All four of these were shot with a Leica M10 and 35mm Summilux. All were made wide open at f1.4 except the pelican which was at 5.6.
Seeing that it’s been four years since the last post here, seems like a good time for an update.
The young man in the picture above is chef Terry Koval. He and his wife, Jenn, own and operate The Deer and the Dove in downtown Decatur, Georgia. He has just been named a finalist for best chef southeast in the James Beard Awards. Couldn’t happen to two nicer and more talented people. They’re proof that talent and hard work pay off.
In the personal news category, we sold our Decatur house and drove to Pensacola on January 1st to start our next chapter. More family, less traffic. Who knows, maybe there’ll be more time for things like photography and other pastimes in this chapter.
As best I can tell, there are people on EBay willing to pay $20 or more for a roll of film that’s forty-five years out of date. Not expecting any great results with it, but I plan to shoot instead of selling. Not only will it be the most out of date film I’ve ever shot, but also the slowest.
Postcards From Here 