A ten-year-old child and a one-year-old Golden Doodle are evolutionarily quite similar. They both possess infinite needs for stimulation. The only difference I can immediately discern is we don’t buy chewable squeaky toys for our daughter in an effort to pacify this need. (Seriously, how is buying a squeaky toy for a young dog full of energy ever a good idea? Those toys are grossly annoying, even to those who purchased them in the first place. Why would we ever think that such toys would make our highly energetic and impatient pets less annoying? We humans are so strange in our claimed evolutionary superiority.)
Why this evolutionary insight? To explain all these recent posts and those to follow. Laid up with a massacred ankle makes for plenty of slooooowww passing hours. Sometimes (like right now at 2:34 am) in the middle of the night. Day-after-day of limited activity, limited geography, limited photography, has me eyeing Comet’s less used squeaky toys with a, “Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it” experimental attitude. If it wasn’t for knowing all to well where his mouth has been and what he willing and repeatedly puts in it, this might be an entirely different, certainly more interesting, post.
So here are some photographs that I took last year, intended to post about but never did simply because I was too busy.
These are from the first night with my Leica Monochrome. Testing out it’s famed ability to shoot great images at high ISO’s. Having snowed earlier in the day, maybe this was a bit of a cheat. Still, I was impressed.
These go all the way back to waining Summer evening walks with Comet. I’m not sure what artistic inspiration is in process, but I like the images.
Also during the Summer, given my love for shooting at night utilizing mostly ambient light, I purchased a used Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1.0, third version, M lens. This lens is everything everyone writes it is. Obviously, extremely fast, full of character, meaning it is soft and full of lovely bokeh. These shots were from my first night with the lens. As you can see, it captures the romance of darkness. (You can see a pattern developing. My first inclination is to test new equipment at night. It is important that I can use it with minimal light.)
