You never know what is going to be right under your feet.
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Pentax K-3, DA 17-70 f4.
Waves of Paradise is a field recording by Eric Hinchman. Recorded on the Lake Superior, near Paradise, Michigan, this peaceful, meditative recording captures the sounds of waves lapping the shore. I’ve taken many a vacation in little housekeeping cabins just north of Paradise, and was happy to license my photo, Canadian Windmills for the cover image.
Listening to this CD brings me back to those peaceful summer evenings - enjoying the sound of the waves, maybe sitting by a bonfire, and looking up to see both the natural beauty of the milky way in the clear northern sky and the man made light show of the Prince Wind Energy Farm feeding the Canadian power grid on the other side of the straight.
Below is my photo of the wind farm and Whitefish Bay, taken in evening twilight (click on it for a larger version.)
More about the recording, Waves of Paradise can be found here and also here.
The original post from 2007 featuring this photo is in the archives, here.
I broke my Pentax 6x7 earlier in the summer, and while Peter’s Camera Repair in Grand Rapids fixed it promptly, it took me forever to get up there and pick it up, and even longer to get around to testing it. Yesterday I grabbed the only available model and ran a roll of Agfa APX 400 through it.
It works fine! The cat is no doubt contemplating the irony of an empty treat ball and a human attendant who points a black box at him that periodically makes a loud clanking sound…
Pentax 6x7, Takumar 105mm f2.4. Hand held at 1/60th and f4.5. Click on the image for a much larger view.
I was sitting my garden a few weeks ago and spotted a hummingbird among the flowers - a rare site in my urban environ. I came back a few minutes later with camera and a 400mm lens. The hummingbird did not return but after a while I heard a rustling overhead and saw this chickadee hanging on the the downspout…
So I managed to put the long lens to good use after all!
Pentax K-3, Tokina ATX 400 f5.6. Click on the image for a much larger file.
Yesterday I visited the Allegan Forest. It was crisp early autumn morning, brilliant sun and very breezy. A snap of the road I was hiking on:
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After a couple of days being offline due to a technical glitch, I have to post a cat photo to celebrate getting the blog up and running again!One of the more reclusive and less often photographed of the felines that prowl around here…
IR converted Pentax K10D with Ricoh XR Rikenon 28mm f2.8.
Another image from Ferry Point Park in Maryland:
Infrared converted Pentax K10D and DA 17-70mm lens.