Archive for September, 2010

Discipline and routine are totally not my strongest suits. I’m only 8 days into my 365 photo project and I see imminent failure. The weather’s been shite here, and will only get worse as we head into our long Canadian prairie winter. Bleh! This means day after day I’ll have not much to shoot but stuff around the house, unless I wanna freeze my nards off. Heck, even outside there’s not much to capture during winter except bare trees, white snow, and dirty streets. I can see that by day thirty-something I’ll be shooting a calculator on my desk or an old shoe just to keep up the project. Typical me, catching a whiff of the near inevitable failure, I’ve debated it in my mind along the lines of “screw this- who’s really gonna care if I bail on this silly endeavour anyway?” The little angelic guy on my left shoulder advised, “But you’ve been posting the images to Flickr and Facebook as well as your Blog- you’re gonna look pathetic.” To which the cynical little red guy on the right shoulder replied “yeah, that totals about a dozen people, and most of them already know I’m lame. F-it!”

See my new, more realistic project that is taking place of the 365-er here. I call it my Fifty-Two Project, because it’s a photo a week, but all shot at 50mm and f/2

50mm @ f/2, Pentax K100D with Pentax-M 50/1.4 lens, ISO 1600

50mm @ f/2
Jordan aboard the school bus on a rainy September morning. I tried to go for moody and a bit abstract here with the face being out of focus and hard to see through the dirty bus window. This was shot with camera held above my head, manual exposure, manual focus with an old 50mm/1.4 lens on my Pentax K100D… no live-view, total guesswork.