I’m back, of sorts. My project for this year is to take/make a picture a day. This is a scanned negative, #11 of 365.
June 21, 2009
Moving Day
Hello, dear reader! I’ve moved my blog to new digs at www.meilevenson.com. (Yes, a bit namecentric). There’s a new design and all of the old posts are there. I won’t be really updating this one much more, but come on over to the new place and check it out!
September 30, 2008
composition beats composting
I’m not sure what that means, but here are the 2 pictures I picked for my composition assignment for my photography class….
my fortune told!
spooky, is it not?
September 25, 2008
work and life hard
spooky post baseball game picture. There were many people setting up their cameras.
September 12, 2008
cervantes, don quixote and sancho panza in the park
characters pay homage
The second new addition to my camera menagerie is the Ricoh FF-3 AF. A very loud camera with a limited light range, but small (ish), rugged, and easy as pie to use. I like the way that it blurs around the edges, and does strange things to color.
I’ve walked by these statues for many many years. It’s kind of weird, the author’s characters staring up at his bust….burrr.
September 2, 2008
camera obsession, part 2
around and around we go
To my sadness, the camera I had my eye on in the thrift store was sold. Though something tells me that I should really buy new sneakers instead of a 3rd camera….
September 1, 2008
camera obsession
wallpaper
Like I really needed something else to obsess about: manual cameras. I guess it beats smoking crack, maybe. I took this in Washington, it really is the most amazing wallpaper I’ve seen. William Morris inspired.
August 11, 2008
sandwiches at the sentinel
Hey, so as you may know, I am a bit of an obsessive seeker of all things delicious. I scorn the use of ‘foodie’ because of its overuse and general lameness. ANYWAYSS….one of my many secret quests is the Sandwich Quest (not to be confused with the Ice Cream Quest, or the Pupusa Quest, or the Taco Quest). I’ve been primarily focusing my energies on the bah minh, those amazing and delicious Vietnamese sandwiches, but try to eat as many things between two slices of bread whenever possible. And so it is by chance that I find myself downtown early last Monday to brave the line at The Sentinel, Denis Leary’s (of Canteen) sandwich shop. The sandwiches are not cheap (8-10 dollars), but interestingly described. I choose the Ruben, I love a good corned beef.
Sandwich
It was very delicious, salty meat, nice dressing, melty cheese, good bread, and generous pickles. Also an excellent slaw dressed with oil and vinegar, I think. Definitely worth the wait.
August 1, 2008
as we always suspected….
A month ago, I found this great manual camera for cheap at a thrift store. Now I am dabbling in photography, grappling with the concepts of exposure, lens openings and so on. Every so often, I get a good photo. In my nerd way, I’ve taken to dragging around both of my cameras and taking pictures of the same thing, using the different formats.
analog sunset pic
The analog pictures is warmer, but also softer around the edges. The colors are more saturated.
digital sunset pick
The digital is sharper, but also the colors are colder.
