Archive for February 2010

Night in Ashland

In Uncategorized on 27 February 2010 tagged daily life, Oregon with no comments

photo: Ashland movie theater, 2010 And in news from the other kind of theater, the new “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is just spectacularly good.

Ashland!

In Uncategorized on 27 February 2010 tagged daily life, Oregon with no comments

photo: Chairs, 2010 I’m down here for the weekend to review the openings at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Saw Bill Rauch’s “Hamlet” this evening; it had some moments but is not quite what I had hoped. Tomorrow: “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Pride and Prejudice.”

The perfect film camera from Pentax

In Uncategorized on 22 February 2010 tagged equipment, Pentax with 1 comment

Film camera? Right, no one is making them anymore. Or practically no one. And certainly not Pentax, which has shifted its focus, so to speak, over to making nothing but cropped-sensor digital bodies and lenses. But one of the great attractions of the Pentax system is, and has long been, all those lenses, going back [...]

Magnolia leaves

In Uncategorized on 22 February 2010 tagged daily life, landscape with no comments

The little magnolia tree in the back yard, as seen through the old Pentax M 200/4 and lit by a flash. photo: Magnolia, 2010

Forest in Fog

In Uncategorized on 21 February 2010 tagged hand-coloring, landscape, Oregon with 2 comments

Here’s a hand colored shot from a photo I took on a recent foggy morning in the woods near our house. photo: Forest in Fog, 2010