- Edward Yanowitz via F Blog.
- A conversation with Bert Teunissen via Conscientious.
- Lee Ann Heringer’s excellent food photos via the SOFOBOMO pipe.
- “We have many fine tapestries . . .” via We Make Money Not Art.
Fast Lens (CV 35 1.4 SC) + Slow Film (Plus X) + Rainy Day = Robot Overlords
I won’t do any serious editing until sometime next week, but I think I can use all of these. I’ve given myself three weeks to shoot, one to edit and put together the book. By next week I’ll have shot about eight rolls, which is less than I should have shot. I can’t process/scan much faster than a 2-4 rolls a week though, so eight rolls in three weeks isn’t bad for me. I hope I have enough to put together 35 keepers.
BTW, the Robot Overlords have taken over Scotland as well.
I’m not sure that I can think up a way to use any of these in my SOFOBOMO book, except for that first one, perhaps. Unlike Colin, I have a hard time staying on topic. There’s a bit of self-doubt at play, but mostly it’s a matter of photographic habit. Photography is a way of letting my mind wander, so staying on topic scratches a different, less insistent itch.
The tables are wobbly, but the homemade rootbeer is tasty.
In the hopes that hand-tools will one day take their place among their robot brethren, our robot overlords have set them to leisure and the betterment of their minds.
It turns out that our Robot Overlords are really hard to find when you go looking for them. For overlords they spend a lot of time hiding. I’ve caught a few out in the open, but at this rate, I’ll be lucky to finish the book in three months let alone three weeks. In light of this, I’ve decided to take drastic measures. Knowing that our Robot Overlords first arrived in the Fifties, I’ve ordered a bunch Adox CHS, working on the theory that 1950’s film might help me catch a few more of them. I’ve also noticed that Robot Overlords are suckers for really wide open apertures - something about seeing all the pretty colors reflected in the glass - so I’ll be shooting the rest of the project at or very near 1.4. I’ve dug up the ND filters, so I should be able to catch them even in daylight.
