
After spending the day at Mesa Verde National Park, we headed to Cortez for a late meal. Â Walking toward the restaurant, I came across this display. Â With their spicy scent, soft green leaves, and cheerful flowers, geraniums always make my day!

After spending the day at Mesa Verde National Park, we headed to Cortez for a late meal. Â Walking toward the restaurant, I came across this display. Â With their spicy scent, soft green leaves, and cheerful flowers, geraniums always make my day!
As we head toward 100 F weather this weekend, I am glad to have taken the time to head out, once again, to the local botanical garden. Â It is always such a refreshing place to be – new things to see, changes to the familiar. Â I went out with my Nikon Df, and a classic lens, the Nikon 105mm f2.5 AIS.
While I was there, I brought along my Nikon FM2NÂ and a roll of Ilford HP5 to use with different filters – orange, yellow, and green – to see their effects on B&W film. Hopefully I will develop my own roll this next week! And, on the way out of the garden, I took a wonderful tumble, scraped and bruised myself quite nicely, and had a good mouthful of dirt to go along with my lost dignity. I’m quite sore!

I went through a bunch of images the other day to choose a few to print. I’ve never had digital pictures printed. I was seriously disappointed and need to figure out what to do. Things were way too pale, color richness vanished, and contrast was abominable. Certainly I will need to work a bit more closely with the lab, or find another. Still, I put the pictures in frames and they are waiting to be hung on the wall.

