A day off.
A 5k run a bit too late in the morning heat; abandoned the road for the forest and doubled back on my track to stay in the shadows.
A bit of laziness in the garden.
Pulled out the Nikon D500 and the Lensbaby Sweet 35 optic with a macro converter and looked at the world a little closer, a little softer.
An appointment for new tires on the truck.
Grabbed the Nikon D810 and the Lomogon 2.5/32mm art lens.
An hour and a quarter to kill in Lower Lonsdale.
A walk to the Polygon, a bench in the shade for some ‘less-than-light’ reading.
How’s that for a first paragraph?
‘Think Again’ by Walter Sinott-Armstrong, a professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenyan Institute for Ethics at Duke University – it’s an interesting read so far.
When it was close to the time to collect my truck with its new shoes, I wandered along the water front like an overheated slug, stopping for a few moments to take some random shots with another lens I am still working the kinks out of; the Lomogon 2.5/32mm Art Lens.
It’s a work in progress, but I do really like the wonderful feel of its imperfections. It gives such a wonderful memory of the days when our cameras were less than perfect, when a photograph carried more emotion, more unexpectedness, provided memories that evoked feelings.
I have a little Russian-made Lomo LC-A film camera and this lens somewhat recreates the perfectly-imperfect images that came out of that little black pocket camera.
Just images of a short walk along LoLo, with a weird looking brass lens designed to take old-school images, attached to a high end digital camera designed to take really excellent photographs.
I love the contrast.
And that’s what sort of a (mostly) lazy Friday off looked like through the camera lens.