Tag: autumn
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Captured: Every step of the way
On a crisp, cloudy October day, Margaret and I walked through Garfield Park on Indianapolis’s Southeastside with cameras in our hands. I shot a Nikon N2000 and a 50mm f/1.8 Nikon Series E lens, both of which I had recently picked up on eBay for a pittance. I bought the camera to get this lens, actually.…
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Autumn strolls through my neighborhood on Fujifilm Velvia 50
Velvia is born for sunny days. Cloudy days, meh. Or so I found out when I strolled through my neighborhood one overcast afternoon with camera in hand. But this is the only photo I got that shows how the reds, yellows, and oranges frosted the green trees here as autumn began. So you get cloudy-day shots. A…
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Captured: Flag at Mount Jackson
It’s called Mount Jackson Cemetery, but it’s on some of the flattest land in Indianapolis. Mount Jackson was the surrounding neighborhood’s original name, going back to the 1820s, but it’s been called Hawthorne for longer than anybody can remember. Poverty, drugs, petty crime — nobody lives in Hawthorne because they want to. The cemetery persists,…
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Green, yellow, and orange on Fujifilm Velvia 50
The trees changed color slowly this autumn, often first frosting their tips in red, yellow, and orange while the underlying leaves remained green. This created arresting views all over town. Along the section of Kessler Boulevard that I filmed last autumn stands a big Presbyterian church with a grand maple beside its parking lot. I bollixed the…
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Autumn in Indianapolis on Fujifilm Velvia 50
Time was, I couldn’t enjoy autumn. I always looked past it straight to winter, which I hate: the cold and snow, the staying indoors, the heavy clothes and coats. But then a few years ago an autumn of astonishing color yanked me from my gathering funk, and since then I’ve looked for autumn’s color, frequently with a camera…
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Shooting Fujifilm Velvia 50
I’ve always been curious about Velvia 50, a slide film. I finally shot some. I started close to home, as usual. First up: my car. Velvia does blue up right. I’ve always heard that Velvia returns super-saturated reds. Wow, how true. These red petals hurt my eyes. This roll shows no signs that it expired in…
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Captured: Head
Off-brand zoom lenses sometimes come with the old SLRs I buy, and I generally don’t shoot with them because I assume they’re not going to be very good. But on what was probably the last warm and sunny Sunday afternoon of 2013, I went shooting just for fun and decided to snap a Sears f/4 80-200mm zoom-macro…
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Autumn on Kessler Boulevard
George Kessler (1862-1923) was a pioneer city planner who believed that cities could be beautiful – lush and green, with limited pollution. Many American cities hired him to design their park and boulevard systems, including all three Indiana cities in which I have lived – South Bend, Terre Haute, and Indianapolis. Someday I need to write a…
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Captured: Sunset at the park
I get so busy with my old film cameras that sometimes I forget my Canon PowerShot S95 does good work. I took it with me the other evening to Northwestway Park, where I met a friend for a stroll as the sun set. Northwestway is a suburban park surrounded by cul-de-sac subdivisions. It’s where youth…
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Finally appreciating autumn
Work has been consuming me lately and it’s left me with less time to write. It’s time for my annual meditation on autumn, but this year I’m getting this 2010 post out of the archives and running it again. The coming of autumn has always made me grumpy. It means winter is around the corner,…