park & couch

park & oak

rain, bricks, trees

reflected, 1st & salmon

rusting chunks, 8mm

A few test shots of our old friends the Rusting Chunks, taken with a shiny new Sigma 8-16mm ultrawide-angle lens. The lens was a splurge for an upcoming vacation, and I figure I ought to learn to use it a little before getting on the plane.

The main use for the lens is actually not for wacky perspective games, but for really really wide, but normal-looking landscapes, interiors, and so forth. But tradition holds that I always go take photos of the Rusting Chunks first thing when a new gadget arrives, so here they are.

concrete & concertina wire

peeling paint on a quonset hut

nickel orwell

glass effects

A couple of old (circa 2005) digital photo experiments from the archives, along the lines of "what happens if I shoot through this glass object" -- besides confusing the hell out of autofocus, I mean.

I was originally going to title this something along the lines of "seeing the world through the bottom of a glass", but that conveys entirely the wrong tone, & is the sort of half-clever play on words that tends to get newspaper headline writers in unintended trouble. So nix on that.

screamer, sw morrison

car coming

pdx indie marketing fail

detour

reflected, nw 2nd

just don't

boat name win

no admittance, east burnside

safety supply

why are you so happy?

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