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What the ice storm could have taught me about myself
What a great day, walking through the park with my camera after the ice storm! It was 1990. I was 22 and didn’t know myself yet. Who does at 22? College was less than a year behind me; I had gone to...
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Captured: 8th and Maple
I’m consistently surprised by what does and doesn’t work on this blog. I’ll pour my heart into a post and when it goes live, crickets: few views, few comments. Other times I’ll dash off something...
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Taking photographs in the cold
Do you take many photographs during the cold of winter? I don’t. I hate cold weather. Pentax H3, 55mm f/2 Super Takumar, Kodak Gold 200, 2016 So do some of my old cameras. Last winter when I shot my...
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A snowy visit to Purdue
I spent an afternoon with my son, who’s in his last semester at Purdue. He really likes to walk, so we walked together, all over West Lafayette. It did my middle-aged body good to put some miles on my...
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Winter’s a comin’
In the spring, I thought that lockdown might flatten the pandemic curve (remember that phrase?) enough that life could return to normal in the summer. I was willing, eager even, to press pause on...
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Dreading snow
When I was nine years old, my parents bought my brother and I snow shovels, put a bow on each of them, and leaned them against the fireplace next to the tree Christmas morning. I mark that moment as...
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single frame: Wet winter street
Wet winter streetMinolta Maxxum HTsi35-80mm f/4-5.6 Minolta Maxxum ZoomIlford HP5 PlusLegacyPro L110, Dilution B2021 I made this photo just a few weeks ago, and now it’s essentially spring. This same...
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Cold, dreary Chicago on Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400
Margaret and I made our usual December trip to Chicago the weekend before last Christmas. We like to visit Christkindlmarkt and finish our Christmas shopping on State Street and Michigan Avenue. But...
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