darker that it looks

OK, since we ain't exactly sticking to bberry images, then how about some very recent film work? This is a negative scan from Fuji something or other 400 I bought at a drugstore to test a Nikon camera I was selling. When I took this, from St. Rose Church in Cincinnati, it was so dark (how dark wazzz it?) I had to use a flashlight to see the camera settings. This was about 5 seconds at something like f 5.6, taken from a sturdy tripod, using finger pressure on the shutter button. This was a peaceful, quiet evening on the river. I'd hoped for some riverboats to streak some colors across the water but, as usual, hoping doesn't yield squat. Then again, no boats = better color streaks on the water. Well, I had a tight schedule, so this is what it is.

A scrap of paper, underfoot ....

Say good-day to evidence of a small, folded scrap of paper. This diminutive alphabet letter was masochistically underfoot in the parking lot near Oakley, Ohio. Then again, maybe it was somewhere else. I didn't write down where I was and I get around town. Anyway, this image has been inverted to a negative and the contrast was considerably increased. BTW - twas also down-sized to 800 pixels.

Not a BlackBerry photo ...

In this blog, it's fun to occasionally toss in something I took with a "real camera." This particular entry dates back to about 1979, when I didn't take pills at both ends of the day, still had nearly all of my teeth, and didn't groan when I moved around. This is a snapshot I took while hiking with my son. I'm certain it was taken with a Mamiya C330-f Pro TLR. I'm really sorry I let go of that camera. I did apply some image-processing techniques to the scan. The two round, white features are puffball fungi, found, from time to time, in our SW Ohio area. TaDa!

Gimme Another 3!

Here's another. Wow, a couple of 3's, in the heavens, in about the past month. Who'd-a thunk? Maybe the lottery gods are throwing hints? Nah ....

Nuttin like ...

playing with yer food! Well, what the heck, somebody didn't want their pickles and she threw 'em over onto my plate. And there was this carrot thing already there ... and a soda-straw wrapper sitting nearby. Well, there ya go, all ya need, like the components to a Mr. Potato Head face, with just a little re-positioning required. (a bit of a crop and a tweak of the saturation)