All it has to be is good

All it has to be is good

Foto.Feola.Friday for May 5, 2023

Modeling's no profession

If you want instead when you're dead

Some more public and more permanent expression

Of affection

You want a painter, poet, sculptor preferably

Marble, granite, bronze

That's durable forever

All it has to be is good

Photojournalists have to get things in focus. That’s not such a big deal in these days of Continuous Autofocus, Eye and Face detection and such. But try it running through the Okefenokee Swamp after the 1/75th Ranger Battalion with a Pentax MX loaded with Tri-X and a manual focus telephoto lens. Heck, Rangers are hard enough to focus on in the best of conditions; if you can focus on them with a camera, so can a bad guy with a rifle. So Rangers tend to avoid such situations.

When I got out of photojournalism and started shooting pretty much only for myself, I started dabbling on and off with the idea of an intersection between digital photography and Impressionism. I’ve played with a series I called Pointal Pixels, after?George Seurat’s work. Here’s an example. And I was playing with more general Impressionism when the bluebonnets peaked in April; you can see those in the gallery. Plus one of those Ranger photos.

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Ranger sniping, 1/75th Ranger Battalion on maneuvers in Ft. Stewart GA, 1984. Pentax MX, Pentax 200mm F/4
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Leaf, from the Pointal Pixels series
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Impressionistic Bluebonnets

From a few weeks ago:

Next on Perfecting Equilibrium

Sunday May 7th-The Reader:?Texas is considering launching its own digital currency. Is that constitutional? And what happens to the US Federal government if states start issuing their own cryptocurrencies?

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