Arrrr, Get Away From Me Garden

Next week is Eat Local Food week in our metro area. Take the pledge and explore the ways you can support local farmers and markets.

Caption:  Pirate-crow guarding his field
Camera:  Camera:  Superheadz Black Slim Devil with Konica 400

Taco Truck Twilight

Nothing like combining two adventures into one…photography and eating. “Truck” cuisine is trending across the U.S. and so I thought it was time to explore some of our own local venues thanks to Columbus Food Adventures and their ever-growing offering of area tours. Bethia’s knowledge of menu items and personal relationship with the truck owners makes everyone feel at home and eager to go back out later and revisit these great places on our own.

Caption: Taco Truck at Sunset
Camera:  Superheadz Black Slim Devil with Konica 400

Easy Color

I’m back from visiting friends a couple states over with a gift from my host, simplistic in nature but open for inventive interpretation — a key chain full of acrylic tinted gels called Kola. Easy to throw in any bag, purse or pocket, the balancing act for propping these gels in front of your lens or flash takes some getting used to, but the effect, especially for certain colors, seemed to be more than the mere addition of color.

Family à Fair

Across the U.S., some fairs have lost their luster while some luckily still sparkle. The first state fair in the country, recently closed its gates. Luckily, our state fair continues to thrive.

Nowadays fair goers are mostly on the hunt for their fav fried foods and carnival rides but wanting to know more about our local agriculture pulls me toward the barns where farm families spread among the isles setting up cots, and card tables covered with potluck dinners or rounds of Euchre to pass time. As the saying goes, know your farmer, know your food.

A Day at the Fair

The State Fair is perfect for a backpack full of toy cameras. Color, people, action, farm animals, traditions and food. So much to choose from…so little film.

Caption:  Happy Bee
Camera:  Superheadz Black Slim Devil with Konica 400

Its Final Adventure

The last manufactured roll of Kodachrome film, renowned for its sharpness and vibrant hues, has been entrusted to renowned photographer Steve McCurrey, who used the Kodachrome brand to capture his acclaimed 1984 National Geographic cover portrait of a green-eyed Afghan refugee girl. The first mass-marketed color film has been a professional favorite since its launch 74 years ago and like Polaroid film before it, fell to the rise of digital photography.

McCurrey requested the final 36-exposure strip and planned the film’s final adventure for nine months before leaving in June to start his six-week shooting odyssey. The adventure will be featured in a National Geographic special and the film itself will come home to rest in the George Eastman House film and photography museum in Rochester, New York.

Kodachrome…
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day

– Paul Simon

Auction Day

Caption: Wagons and carriages wait for the end of market day.
Camera:  Canon Powershot S40

Summer Auction

Caption:  Summer livestock auction in Kidron, Ohio, a small community in the heart of Amish and Mennonite Ohio.
Camera:  Canon Powershot S40

A Loaf of Brood

I call these Hitchcock snaps. Just like Hitchcock used to appear in the background of his own movies, having “hidden” images of those on the trip just add another layer to an already enticing snapshot.

Caption:  Amsterdam Breadshop at Dawn
Camera:  Canon Powershot G9

600,000 Bicycles

The 750,000 people who live in Amsterdam own over 600,000 bicycles.

Caption:  Amsterdam Bike
Camera:  Canon Powershot G9