Category: photography
Mum’s Cameras
The camera on the left is Mum’s latest camera. The one on the right is her first camera – a Canon Demi half-frame 35mm camera she and Dad bought on the boat from the...
Head of the Charles
We went in to the Head of the Charles for a little while today. It was a busy weekend, but we convinced ourselves that we needed to go because Tom had homework for his...
Peter and the Umbrella
Chris’ mother and sister are visiting us. They don’t get together very often, so it seemed like a good time to get some pictures of them together. And since I was going to be...
Cerulean = 26, 4.54, -24.55 (in L*A*B*)
I’m sure that every time you played with your Crayolas, you wondered what the the exact difference was in the spectra of green-yellow and yellow-green. Well I did. Mark Meyer has done all of...
Foveon Sensors and Autochromes
You may have heard about Sigma’s newly released high-end camera called the SD1. If so, what you probably heard about was the price tag. A list price of $9,700 seems pretty high, but there’s...
$3.9M for a Cindy Sherman?
There was an article in the news the other day about a Cindy Sherman photo selling for 3.9 million dollars. That seemed so nuts that I really couldn’t think of anything sensible to say....
May Flowers
It’s the beginning of May, so there’s lots of action in the garden. Here are some pictures I took Sunday. One of our favorites this time of year are the phlox. We used to...
