Hi photo lovers.
We are overdue for a new foto flog. I really haven’t been out the way I normally would be, so fresh images are just not a thing right now. The featured image is of some clouds before a severe storm came through a earlier in the week.
I am still using my same equipment, and am no professional. If you are an avid photographer, regardless of your skills and professional experience, you are in good company here. Booman Tribune was blessed with very talented photographers in the past. At Progress Pond, we seem to have a few talented photographers now, a few of whom seem to be lurking I suppose.
I have been using an LG v40 ThinQ for the last year. It seems to serve me well, now going on its second year. Occasionally I get to use my old 35 mm, but one of my daughters seems to have commandeered it. In the next year or two I will probably have to go through the whole smart phone purchasing process again. I never look forward to that. I am curious about the cameras on other smartphone models. I now have a daughter using an iPhone 8 (what we could afford). She seems happy with the photo quality. Always curious to get input on smartphone camera quality, as that is one of the variables that I weigh when I do purchase one of those contraptions.
This series of posts is in honor of a number of our ancestors. At one point, there were some seriously great photographers who graced Booman Tribune with their work. They are all now long gone. I am the one who carries the torch. I keep this going because I know that one day I too will be gone, and I really want the work that was started long ago to continue, rather than fade away with me. If I see that I am able to incite a few others to fill posts like these with photos, then I will be truly grateful. In the meantime, enjoy the photos, and I am sure between Booman and myself we can pass along quite a bit of knowledge about the photo flog series from its inception back during the Booman Tribune days.
Since this post usually runs only a day, I will likely keep it up for a while. Please share your work. I am convinced that us amateurs are extremely talented. You will get nothing but love and support here. I mean that. Also, when I say that you don’t have to be a photography pro, I mean that as well. I am an amateur. This is my hobby. This is my passion. I keep these posts going only because they are a passion. If they were not, I would have given up a long time ago. My preference is to never give up.
Peace.
Welcome back. You’ve been missed. I’m still pretty restrained, but I get outdoors every day. Here’s some climatis flowers I came across yesterday.
Thanks! I am probably going to at least go out walking more. Pretty much need to in order to work off some unwanted weight gain. If my favorite places to walk are not too crowded, that should be doable. That means, of course, fresh photos. At least that’s the hope. We’ll see how it goes.
It is possible to amuse oneself photographically while stuck at home. We had a couple thousand color slides that are hard tosee these days, so what better use of stuck at home time that start digitizing them. Here is the Grand Canyon looking east at sunset in 1965.
One of my summer projects is to buy a new printer/scanner and getting back to scanning photos going back to my first Kokdak Instamatic (yeah, I know…not much of a camera). I’d begun that scanning project before my current printer died on me. So, hopefully in a few weeks.
Some of our flowering plants are flowering. Hopefully will have something up either next Friday – or more realistically the following Friday.
Still looking at color slide conversions. This one is of the White House Ruin in Canyon de Chelly National Monument in the Navajo reservation of northeastern Arizona
Just finished taking a walk this evening along the portion of the riverfront that belongs to the National Park service. Got a few photos while I was at it. Will have to sort through those. Hopefully will have something new next Friday. May be stormy around Tulsa, but just a few clouds and humidity in my neck of the woods. Noticed the Trail of Tears lookout area is still closed off – it was damaged during last year’s 500 year flood. Not sure when that will be reconstructed.