Category: Travels

Astoria, OR 1992

From one of my many roadtrips with Trevor.

I was a fairly serious photographer back then:  two Pentax ME Super SLRs, a silver (for print) and a black (slides):

Shared between the two, I used five different lenses, and mostly Kodak 25- or 50 ASA film for daylight, 200- or 400 ASA for night-time.

When I get to posting the game animal pics, you’ll see the results through various Pentax lenses — 500mm, 200mm, 40-80mm zoom (my favorite), the “standard” 50mm, and very occasionally wide-angle 28mm (although the latter I used mostly for landscape pics).

I don’t want to wander too far into the Camera Dork Forest… those days are far behind me.

Dropped New Wife off at the airport for her family reunion in Cape Town.

If anyone wants to know where I am, I’ll be in bed, under the covers, whimpering.

And I’m not coming out…

Rincon, Chile 2004

(right-click to embiggen)

Chelsea, London 1999

London through a rainy bus window, 1997

Apologies for the quality of the pics, but digital photography was in its infancy back then.  My camera was a Sony Mavica, which saved the pics onto an actual CD-RW.

I don’t remember the photo resolution, but compared to today’s standards it was pitiful.  Still, it was the best available at the time.

Avebury Stones, Wiltshire (1999)

Nobody knows why the stones are there, who put them there, or what they mean.  A mystery for the ages.