
After spending the day at Mesa Verde National Park, we headed to Cortez for a late meal. Walking toward the restaurant, I came across this display. 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. Walking toward the restaurant, I came across this display. 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. It is always such a refreshing place to be – new things to see, changes to the familiar. 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 FM2N 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.

