Returning to Deerwood where I used the Holga pinhole a few days ago, I decided to use my Pentax 67 this time. Here are several of today's photographs. 

 

Today, I took the Holga wide angle pinhole to Deerwood, which is a large corporate park with a lot of natural space. I had more success with it this second time even though I almost left the lens cap on, but realized I'd done that just in time!  Using this camera is a throwback to the early 20th century in a way, and it takes some getting used to. But, thanks to Photoshop, I was somewhat able to compensate for its limitations and adjust sharpness a good deal. (As there's no lens and no way to focus the pinhole, the sharpen tool is a necessity even though I dislike having to use it.) Here are three:

After using the Holga wide-angle pinhole described below, I shot a roll of film with my Pentax 67 in an area I've been to many times. Here are two from there that are similar, but a little different. I'm a real sucker for drooping tree limbs and trunks that are not straight! 

I received a surprisingly interesting Christmas present...a Holga Wide Angle Pinhole camera! If you're not familiar with this instrument, it's the most primitive, simple, low tech, camera there is! The pinhole projection concept has been around for centuries having been described by da Vinci in 1502 and used extensively by Vermeer as a tool for painting.  There is no lens, and no shutter and no focus control (everything already is focused by the extremely tiny light hole) . One just uncovers the pinhole, counts the requisite seconds, and covers the pinhole again having allowed the film to be exposed. Here are two images from my first attempt with it. I did enhance them a little bit in Photoshop Elements 21, but very minimally. 

It's difficult to find the time to travel to new places for photography, but fortunately the places I've already often visited are rarely the same twice. These are from Dutton Island Preserve which is a place once owned by the Dutton family (not the Yellowstone crew! ;) that was donated to the state. 

 Returning again to Cedar Point, I found a few more variations, three of which are presented here:

Returning yet again to Blackrock and Boneyard Beach on Big Talbot Island, I was seduced by what I've presented below.  To a certain degree, I was experimenting with a No. 11 green filter, and I am not particularly impressed by what it did, but I then changed back to the No. 15 deep yellow filter and was able to obtain typical results. I hope I can make a trip farther away from the coast in the coming weeks and see what looks good. 

 

I'm always seeking a new place to photograph that's still in this general area. I just discovered this one called Cradle Creek Preserve. Here is the only image I was happy with from the roll of ten negatives, but I'll go there again when the light is different for another look. 

To get to this area of Little Talbot Island State Park, I walked two miles through a forest.  Stupidly, I had forgoten bug spray, and thus spent every single moment swatting, swiping and slapping myself! It's a good thing that killing bugs is not frowned on, because I was a mass murderer of the swarming, wee bastards! When I finally reached the beach, the little winged nasties were gone and I was free to enjoy making photographs. Here are three I liked from the ten exposures I made. 

I was quite happy to return again to two favorite places in the Timucuan Preserve which are always interesting to me. Here are five photographs I like...three from Pumpkin Point and two from Cedar Point. 

Sometimes, what's close at hand is easy to ignore. The first two photographs taken in our backyard are about the way light reveals tones and textures. The third is from a place I've often photographed from the other side of the road looking east toward the ocean. I took this picture at lowish tide with the sandbar quite our of the water. I was standing on a bridge, and the rock wall with bushes was in the foreground.

I've finally gathered the wherewithal to take my camera out and make some photographs. Like seeing an old friend when you've been among strangers, I went back to Black Rock Beach where I've often had a good outing as what's there is so inherently interesting. Here are five from the roll of ten that I like. Just to see how they'd look, I toned the bottom two a slight sepia. I'm still not sure, so I'm going to leave them as they are now.

 

 

 

It's now autumn, and I'm still in a photographic slump, but I did visit Kingsley Plantation again last week and brought back a few images of tabby slave cabin ruins and one scene from Palmetto Road which is on the way there. 

It's been a very slow summer for my photography, but I did manage to shoot a roll of film last week. Here are three images from that outing at Cedar Point, a site I've visited quite a few times. 

I've not posted here for a month or so, but yesterday (August 17th) I resolved to take my camera for a ride to Marineland.  It was an opportunity to photograph the surf against the coquina rocks at a little bit slower shutter speed than the meter called for using an ND filter. That shutterr speed was 1/8th second which was enough to capture the splash against the rocks, but not so slow as to totally blur those waves. Of the ten exposures I made with my Pentax 67, 55mm lens, and variable ND filter I liked these two.

This image was also on the roll of film from a previous trip a month ago.

 I love to return to Cedar Point when the sky is cloudrich!  It never disappoints!