[Leica] Photography and work and some non-Leica photos.

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Hi Nathan:

You're right, once again I neglected to change the address on a list 
reply meant to be off list.

I usually have a couple of cameras in my car and have been stopping to 
shoot stuff at any hour of the day during my many months of blissful 
unemployment... which is becoming less so.

You have sensed my lament though, as I just know that when I'm gainfully 
employed again, that it'll be difficult to find the time to find the 
type of subjects which I like to photograph... specially during the 
short winter days.

I've finished scanning and spotting some photos shot around noon last 
January in Hull, Massachusetts on a VERY cold day.  These were taken 
with a "Baby" Speed Graphic 6x9cm, with an f3.7 105mm Ektar on Portra 
160 rollfilm.

I haven't done anything with them until now because they were processed 
by a lab with a roller machine... which seems to have not been cleaned 
for weeks.  They had so much dirt and fibre spots on them that each took 
about two hours to clean up in Photoshop.

http://www.hemenway.com/Hull-January2004/index.htm

I posted the CoolPix versions last January so you may have already seen 
them.

Regards,

Jim



Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> Jim Hemenway wrote:
> 
>>
>> P.S. I don't know how I got anything done, (photographically) when I 
>> was working.
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I assume you intended this to be a private message to Phong, but in any 
> event you posted it on the list, and it brings up an interesting dilemma 
> for those of us who are passionate about photography but have a day job 
> that is not at all photo related.
> 
> In my case, I work at an non-photogenic office in the middle of an 
> office park. Especially at this time of year, when it is dark before 5 
> p.m. in Northern Europe, and the weather is frequently totally crappy, 
> it can be a challenge to find time to do photography. Here is what I do: 
> I try to integrate it as much as possible into my daily life. I always 
> carry a camera with me, no matter what. During the week it may well be 
> that the camera bag just stays in the car all day (the office park where 
> I work may be ugly, but it is safe), but I do not want to leave home 
> without it on the off-chance that something interesting will happen on 
> the way to work, or that I go out during lunch and see something 
> interesting etc. Several of my PAWs have come into being this way. It is 
> likely that this week's PAW which I will post later this weekend will be 
> either from our Thanksgiving dinner last Sunday, or from some photos I 
> took when running some errands during lunch break Tuesday or Wednesday.
> 
> Someone (sorry, I forgot who) posted some beautiful pictures taken on 
> his walk to work a couple of weeks ago. The subjects were extremely 
> mundane, just some details of run-down houses and such, but the 
> photography was excellent. This is the kind of thing I strive for.
> 
> Nathan
> 
>