POTD - August 17, 2009

Pichaku! I Choose you!!!

POTD - August 16, 2009

I'm failing horribly at the POTD idea. :)

I may rename it Bi-monthly Pic of the Month (BMPOTM).

The BMPOTM is a Kodak Bantam Special - circa 1939. A friend recently brought over a camera his father bought pre-WWII. February 4, 1939 to be exact, for a whopping $90.13. The original receipt and all the paperwork are still in the original box!

Seeing this is a weak attempt at a blog about photography... I thought it would make a good subject.














The Kodak Bantam is a folding camera using Kodak's 828 film format (35mm film with only 1 perforation per image). It was a very compact camera, designed by the famous Walter Dorwin Teague. The basic model had a 1:12.5 Doublet lens and a single speed shutter. It appeared in 1935, together with another model that had a 1:6.3 lens and a rigid finder. Most Bantams were strut folders, but the F.8 model of 1938 had a rectangular pull-out lens tube instead. The luxurious Bantam Special was launched in 1936.

Enjoy! Here's the complete gallery.

POTD - August 04, '09

So far the pic of the day has been more like a pic of the month. However, as I was heading out to a game of tennis I found this guy who wouldn't leave the hood of my wife's car. He actually seemed very interested in the len of my camera and would actually approach it as I closed in on him. If I wiggled my finger, he would cock his head and seemed to make eye contact. I was no more than 3 inches from him most of the time.
















I spent about 5 minutes and snapped about two dozen shots. All were handheld and the DOF was so shallow most were either blurry or out of focus. I fortunately found two shots that were usable. The higher shutter speed is what saved this shot.

Shot at 1/200 at f2.8, iso 400

Here's the Gallery.

BTW - The Brown Anole, Anolis sagrei (or Norops sagrei) is an invasive species not native to Florida or the US. <---- Stupid Florida Fact. Oh, and this one is a female (DO NOT ask me how i know that).

If you have now learned something new....go home for the day!

POTD

I've seen a few photographers post a Pic Of The Day on their home sites. It seems like a good idea to start looking for at least one item of interest out and about each day. I'm not sure yet how successful (or interesting) this will be....but here we go.

I'm going to cheat on day one and share a pic of something easy enough to capture.

Enjoy!?

Here's the Gallery.

Casual Portraits - Gavin & Delaney

With a small amount of bribery I was able to to get some cooperation from the local natives. Thank you Dairy Queen.

Enjoy the pics and let me know what you think.

Here's the link to the complete gallery.