The sunsets the last few days have been stunning. Huge storm clouds, red-tinged light, and all at the perfectly acceptable hour of about 9pm. It’s been raining a fair amount too, but the good, Mexican, kind of rain that soaks you to the skin in 30 seconds but is as warm as a heated swimming pool. An hour or two later and other than the occasional missing road, everything’s back to normal. Love it.

Anyway, this ain’t a sunset, but a quick snap of the sky while walking Bolo the Beagle in the tapatían afternoon.

I’ve got me mum visiting at the minute so we’ve put her to work making fantastic meals in exchange for showing her around the Maine countryside. Today we went to Bath and Harpswell. This one’s from the latter. Got to go now, chicken curry and apple crumble are almost ready.

This one’s from down by the riverside on a local walk and is obviously taken with my cheap and cheerful fisheye lens. And flowers are photographic clichés for a reason.

This was a week ago, there’s barely any blossom left now. Which means you’ll be spared more spring pictures for the forseeable future…

I can’t seem to vary the subject matter lately, but I can vary the lenses. Here’s what it was like to be outside in Portland yesterday. With a sudden onset of tunnel vision.

We used to live in Santa Cruz. UCSC has the banana slug as its school mascot (“No known predators”). This sign is from yesterday’s wanderings about Lewis & Clark campus in the snow. It’s all melted today. Weird weather… weird signage…

Anyroad, a few business items… First off, one of my mates who is a proper, professional photographer, Mr. Joop Rubens has started a photoblog to go with his flashy pro site, and I urge you to check it out. He’s been into photography for donkey’s years and got into digital about 5 years ago and has enviable portrait skillz.

Next off, I’m considering consolidating my RSS feeds so that if you’ve signed up for photoblog emails, you’ll get my blog updates too. If that sounds like a bad idea, contact me in the next day or two and I may well reconsider. I try to put photos in all my blog posts too… If you’re signed up for both already, you can still unsubscribe from one or t’other.

Thirdly, I’ve still not printed the photos I promised you and for that, I suck. I’m on it, it’s always on my mind and maybe this is the week I’ll make good on my promise.

Fourthly, I got ebaying over the weekend and should have  a 50mm 2.0 prime lens to play with in the very near future which is a whole new area to me and I’m looking forward to experimenting. I’ve another vintage viewfinder on its way too, a Kodak Duaflex II, hopefully full of dust, scratches and blemishes all ready to have a Pringles tin strapped to it.

I won’t write any more here cos it puts the whole balance of the design out when there’s tons of text. I’m offski

Strike me down if it didn’t only go and snow again this morning. ’bout time too. I don’t mind putting up with icy temperatures as long as there’s something to show for it other than frostbite. It more or less all melted by the afternoon though.

The photos this week might well come from the archives rather than fresh off the SD card, apologies in advance

This one’s from Powell’s cooking and crafts bookshop on Hawthorn(e?). Taken through the fisheye obviously, which has been enjoying something of a renaissance in my affections of late.
Dr.Sita’s in Tulane till Friday so Me and Atticus might finally get round to getting some pictures printed and sent to my beloved subscribers.

Still haven’t been out with the camera properly, so here’s one from a month ago or so taken in the little park at the end of our road. Today I’m definitely getting organised with the prints… and hopefully this evening with the pints too.

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

A 20 minute walk with the dog becomes a lot more interesting when you’re packing your cheap and cheerful fisheye lens.