Click on the image for more.Hola my dearest friend who are yet to see this awesome blog...... I guess it's time for me to start telling people that I, too, have a BLOG! So far I've kind of kept it for myself. And my wife. Hell, she's told more people about it than I have. What a great marketer I am. Anyway, here is the newest series of images I shot on Monday. These, just as the previous batch, were shot on film. I hate film as much as I love it. And I love it a lot. Why is that? Because it takes an awful lot of time to scan it and color correct it! But I think it's worth it. When I'm shooting film I never overshoot, yet I make better images than I do with my XT . Partially it's the fact that lenses for my digi are cheap, "third-party" lenses. You know when you see a great image that's missing a tiny bit of something but you can't figure out what it is? It might be that it was shot with a cheap lens. Good lenses give you that something you just cannot get with a cheap lens. Hey, I'm saying that you need an expensive lens to make a good image. What I'm saying is that a good lens (expensive that is) can make a good image look better.
Back to these images: On Monday I went to Bainbridge Island with the kids from the shelter for a field trip. My wife came with me, and she got to enjoy a day with 15 screaming children. An old lady who lives on Bainbridge, invited the kids to spend a day at her house. That was very kind of her, however, she seemed very annoyed by pretty much everything the kids were doing. Letting 15 kids roam through your house and yard is a courageous act, but common sense tells you that when you have that many kids in one place, kids can be somewhat "mischievous". That many adults is even worse. It is expectable that kids would sometimes be loud and that the boys would bug the girls (more screaming). Every time one of the kids would raise the voice, she would come out of the kitchen and tell them to stop or go out. They started singing once, and she showed up and said: "No chanting in the house!" When they were roasting marshmallows, she repeated ten times that they better not burn the sticks. Robert grilled an oyster on the shovel and she yelled at him yet again. "You are going to burn my shovel, and I use it every day!" Damn it, ma'am, it's a frickin' metal shovel! I could go on and on but I don't want to make it sound like a nightmare. Most importantly the kids had a good time. The weather could've been better, though, but they didn't care. While I was on the beach in the sweater, they were in the water! Those of you not familiar with the waters of Pacific Northwest should know that in the winter time the whales go to Alaska because they are cold. Just kidding :). They stay here, but the water is extremely cold. I tried swimming three years ago. My brother and I decided to get in. It was very cold, but at first it seemed like we would get used to it after a few minutes of swimming. That's true if you swim in the Adriatic Sea in December, but not in the Pacific (we swam in July). After a minute you start feeling pain, and it is getting worse by seconds, until you reach a point where your muscles hardly respond. At that moment, you better get the hell out before you brain stops responding. Where the kids were swimming wasn't that cold, because we were in the bay. Nevertheless, it was cold, and some of them spent 8 hours in the water. I was in the water up to my knees for half an hour and I didn't enjoy it. But I did enjoy taking photos, and so did the kids. I always give them my digital Canon XT and let them play with it. My invaluable Mamiya is off limits. They love taking photos. And some kids consistently make nice images. You'd say it's accidental because they are just kids. That's why I said "some kids consistently.....". That's not accidental. I hope some camera manufacturer rep will read this and decide to donate 20 of their cheapest digital cameras to these kids.
Until the next field trip....
Back to these images: On Monday I went to Bainbridge Island with the kids from the shelter for a field trip. My wife came with me, and she got to enjoy a day with 15 screaming children. An old lady who lives on Bainbridge, invited the kids to spend a day at her house. That was very kind of her, however, she seemed very annoyed by pretty much everything the kids were doing. Letting 15 kids roam through your house and yard is a courageous act, but common sense tells you that when you have that many kids in one place, kids can be somewhat "mischievous". That many adults is even worse. It is expectable that kids would sometimes be loud and that the boys would bug the girls (more screaming). Every time one of the kids would raise the voice, she would come out of the kitchen and tell them to stop or go out. They started singing once, and she showed up and said: "No chanting in the house!" When they were roasting marshmallows, she repeated ten times that they better not burn the sticks. Robert grilled an oyster on the shovel and she yelled at him yet again. "You are going to burn my shovel, and I use it every day!" Damn it, ma'am, it's a frickin' metal shovel! I could go on and on but I don't want to make it sound like a nightmare. Most importantly the kids had a good time. The weather could've been better, though, but they didn't care. While I was on the beach in the sweater, they were in the water! Those of you not familiar with the waters of Pacific Northwest should know that in the winter time the whales go to Alaska because they are cold. Just kidding :). They stay here, but the water is extremely cold. I tried swimming three years ago. My brother and I decided to get in. It was very cold, but at first it seemed like we would get used to it after a few minutes of swimming. That's true if you swim in the Adriatic Sea in December, but not in the Pacific (we swam in July). After a minute you start feeling pain, and it is getting worse by seconds, until you reach a point where your muscles hardly respond. At that moment, you better get the hell out before you brain stops responding. Where the kids were swimming wasn't that cold, because we were in the bay. Nevertheless, it was cold, and some of them spent 8 hours in the water. I was in the water up to my knees for half an hour and I didn't enjoy it. But I did enjoy taking photos, and so did the kids. I always give them my digital Canon XT and let them play with it. My invaluable Mamiya is off limits. They love taking photos. And some kids consistently make nice images. You'd say it's accidental because they are just kids. That's why I said "some kids consistently.....". That's not accidental. I hope some camera manufacturer rep will read this and decide to donate 20 of their cheapest digital cameras to these kids.
Until the next field trip....
Mamiya 645 AFD II
Mamiya 80mm 2.8
Fuji Astia 100
Kodak E100GX
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