On a business trip to Pechanga, California in late 2003, I saw these incredible leaves and took a few quick shots with the 5MP Dimage A-1. Click any one fo them to see them all enlarged.
Leaves Pechanga
Tag: still life
Hippo Mouth
Bas Relief
Bench
Fun with abstract shapes and tones and the new 5MP Dimage, November, 2003.
Slide
We’re still in the archive here, but at this point, Autumn, 2003, I’ve just decided digital has really arrived and I’ve bought the Minolta Dimage A-1, a “prosumer” all-in-one, 5 MP digital camera with a flip-up rear screen, built-in flash, 28-200mm (equivalent) lens – a camera I really loved. At this point, I haven’t yet learned about Raw and I’m still shooting jpegs straight out of the camera.
Behind the Curtain
Another low-res image from the archive, late summer, 2003.
Brickwork
Sticking with the archives, still, here’s a 2MP jpeg from September, 2003.
Beach Still Life
Life’s a Beach
So frigid weather sends me back to the archive. Here’s a selection of 2MP jpegs shot early in my digital period with the family Kodak at the beach, with a little modern editing in Capture One. Click any image to see them all enlarged.
Mars Rover Perseverance image?
No, it’s salad dressing. More fun with the Fujinon 60mm macro lens.
Thin Green Line
Another over-processed jpeg from 2002.
Sun Roof
I have no idea what damage I may have done to the original jpeg, boosting saturation and/or contrast, but near as I can figure it this is the original jpeg file out of camera.
Cutoff Call
Some more from the Tri-X film archives in the late 1970s
Still Life, Kitchen
Sticking with the Tri-X film archives with some more images from the late 1970s.
Compassionate Relief
Tri-X Test Shot
Kirk Tuck’s Visual Science Lab pointed me to an interesting site the other day, Fuji-x Weekly, who list a series of “recipes” for creating a range of particular film looks (that aren’t already included out-of-the-box in my X-series cameras). Kirk was having fun with the Tri-x 400 recipe and, since that’s the film I shot the most of for a few decades, I thought I’d at least create the recipe and store it to one of the custom banks of my XT-4. This is my first test shot after creating it. Nice tonal range. More later, perhaps…
Vase
Pussy-willow
Modern Restaurant, Covid Style
Pills
Acetaminophen 
Ibuprofen
…or maybe it was the other way around. anyway, looked like they might be interesting to photograph, pace Garry Winogrand