Tag: photography

Instax Gratification – Wide

It has been absolutely perfect weather around here – 72F, clear skies, and just spring-moving-into-summer!

On a day like this, it is silly not to pick up your butt, pick up your camera, and get out of the house. Today I loaded up the Instax Wide 300, and meandered through the neighboring college campus.

It is deserted. Consequently, as with elsewhere, wildlife is taking over.

Birds, squirrels, crows, rattle snakes, bunnies, and even coyotes.  Crows were everywhere.

The wilder parts of the campus are overgrown with mustard and fennel.

It was great to feel a bit lost in the wild, but I also kept a sharp eye out for rattlers – not something you want to run into.

Tomorrow I think I’ll head out to the local creek.

Instax Gratification – Mini 90

I have been craving a film fix. Yeah, I can go out with a film camera loaded with film – but nowhere nearby is currently processing film! I’ve determined the next Big Project is to master black and white processing at home – really getting it down – and then perhaps some color. Maybe even slide. So, to fill that craving, I dug out my box of Instax cameras (Mini 90 and Wide 300). The Mini was loaded, so I took a few using it.

Just outside the door to the Dog Free Zone – wine red dahlias and some bulb I cannot remember …

Shadows of the picnic table in the late afternoon.

Vining petunias in a lovely pink.

And finally, as the daylight fades, the banana and lemons on the granite countertop.

Oh, yeah!

The Palo Verde Tree

Our local botanical gardens is open again! I took one of the dogs, Smudge, my X100V, and off we went, following the trails up and down. We have missed a lot of the early spring blooms, such as the narcissus and daffodils, but the trees are beginning to blossom. At the top of the hill is the cactus garden, filled with a variety of desert plants. There are barrel cactus, crowns of thorns, cholla, saguaro. Other drought-tolerant plants are there, too. The best of the day, though, was the Palo Verde tree, fully dressed in its light yellow-green leaves.

Early Morning

Today promises to be frying hot – 91F or more. The house is already closed up to keep it cool – thank goodness for modern insulation! – so we don’t have to use the air conditioning. I took this image not too long ago on a considerably cooler day, and that is what I want to think about rather than suffocating heat! The plus side of the heat is flowers love it and as it is too hot and bright to go outside for strenuous activities, it is a perfect day to do things around the house, like sewing and such. Domestic life suffers in the summer around here.