I am a tree

I am a tree - I show my age when I don′t cry I have the leaves that will fall off when wind blows by Don′t strip off my bark - I have been stripped of it before Yesterday′s gone and tomorrow has so much more in store

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In the late Cretaceous Period when Tyrannosaurus Rex strode the earth and I wandered the world with a press card and a Domke bag stuffed with Pentax gear, there was a clear division in camera lenses. I carried a pair of matched Pentax LXs loaded with Tri-X black and white film for newspaper work, and a Pentax MX loaded with some sort of color film.

Newspaper printing has limited resolution, so I could use any lens. But when that MX was loaded with Kodachrome 25…well, only my best lenses would do.

T-Rexs are gone, and so is film photojournalism. The combination of digital sensors and CAD/CAM lens manufacturing meant pretty much all modern lenses were pretty much the same. (Bland, I might add.)

Until the Pentax K-3 III Monochrome.

This thing pushes me. Suddenly I find myself A/B testing lenses again, and only the winners go on the Monochrome. What fun!

And I still haven’t gotten around to seeing what I can do processing the RAW files. These are JPEGs, lightly tweaked in PhotoShop.

Next on Perfecting Equilibrium

Sunday October 22-The Reader: Remain in Texas: The Biden Administration has floated a trial balloon for a policy that would force “migrants” to remain in Texas. Texas has been offering these newcomers free rides to Chicago, where they displace residents, who are taking to the streets in response. How will this affect the standing of the states? And what good is Chicago to Texas, anyway?