I bet Jim could take an astonishing picture with a bottom of a beer bottle ...
I bet Jim could take an astonishing picture with a bottom of a beer bottle ...
In other news, prices for random pieces of broken glass recovered from trash cans reached a new high today on reports...
Just kidding! Lensmakers worked hard for decades to make sharper and more contrasty lenses and photographers mortgaged their homes to buy them. It's all well and good if that's what you want but it's great that every once in a while someone comes along to remind us of some of the alternatives. As human beings, we tend to forget easily.
Thanks, Jim: what a wonderful example of serendipity!
Mike
Politically, aerodynamically, and fashionably incorrect.
That Spider Grass image is a knockout. You are a magician, a poster boy for dispossessed photographers.
Thanks,
Kirk
at age 73:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
Beautiful shots, Jim!
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
damn it, Jim...just...damn...now there's another camera bit I'll have to justify to my fiance.
They do look so lovely, so smooth, and to think that you've got a 7" lens that will cover more than 11x14 is in itself mond blowing. Mount it in a shutter and sell it for $$$!
Beautiful work. Thanks again for some inspiration.
I like the SW designation.
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