Friday, April 24, 2020
by ag
Soon after Earth Day, I realized I was remiss in not paying homage to the dieffenbachia plant in my living room. It’s been with me for 6 years and 2 moves, and is now nearly ten feet tall. Its growth amazes me on a daily basis, and I have to wonder whether it will soon become a permanent fixture in this apartment due to its size. I can only hope that the next tenant appreciates it as much as I do. (Click on image to enlarge.)
Fun to imagine that with each click on the photo, the dieffenbachia will grow a few inches. I’ll keep you posted.
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It’s a lovely plant, Alan. You have such a neat apartment! Is that a Hawkeye I see on your shelf?
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Thanks Linda. The Brownie Hawkeye is part of my small, and incomplete, collection of cameras I’ve owned. This isn’t the actual camera my maternal grandmother gave me for my 13th birthday but a substitute since the original disappeared decades ago. Among my first subjects — the George Washington Bridge. I still have the prints and have to say, they’re pretty good photos :)
Not included in the collection: My Hasselbald camera system that I used for years but had to sell several years ago when times were tough.
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Linda beat me to it – I was also going to comment on the neatness (peacefulness, really) and the Hawkeye – and the movie projector, and that fabulous floor, wow. I never see those out here. What a beautiful portrait you made of a gorgeous plant – the light coming through the leaves reveals your love. (My first camera was the same, and also disappeared long, long ago. I do have a muscle-memory of it, especially the feel of the gray, ridged shutter button. I love that the GW Bridge was an early subject for you. I was upstate; I remember getting down low to photograph tulips with the blue sky & clouds behind them).
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This house was built around 1870, hence the cherry wood floor (I think.)
The projector is an 8mm one we watched home movies on when I was a kid. It still works and is a rugged hunk of metal — no plastic on this gizmo. My father’s 8mm movie camera is sitting next to the Brownie Hawkeye — ahh, the gray, ridged shutter button. Looking through its waist-level viewfinder just now, I couldn’t help thinking how nice it would be to shoot that way again.
As for the neatness of the room, it usually is that way but if it wasn’t, I certainly would have straightened things out before taking the picture :)
I haven’t been shooting too many bridges lately, but it appears that years later, you’re still shooting much the same subjects you did in childhood. And we’re all better off for it!
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It’s a pleasure reminiscing with you, and in such a clean, well-lit space, as they say…1870, cool – I think they were living in log cabins and logging the heck out of the forests out here about then…so nice of you to say that about my subject matter. I have no doubt that you’d do something very interesting with any bridge you cared to photograph.
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Speaking of bridges, this was a photo I took a few days ago: https://pixetera.co/2020/04/25/saturday-april-25-2020/.
Yes, I know it’s not strictly a bridge, but it’s close enough I hope :)
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Yes! :-)
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