Cool... oh, BTW Nebraska *is* an exotic foreign land. On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Like a few others on this list, I enjoy going to thrift stores, > antique stores, & garage sales. (Haven't been to many garage sales > lately). This weekend I found a few small prizes: > > 1) A nice wooden cigar box, from which I hope to make my first > three-string cigar box guitar. It is a bit small, but I've seen others > made successfully with this size so I think I will "give it a go". > > 2) A 24 exposure roll of Kodak 110 film (expired 06/2004) still in the box > > 3) A "patented Dec. 12, 05" flooring saw (the first I have ever seen > "in the wild"). It appears to be a Geo. Bishop design, but the blade > etch indicates it was sold by Norvell-Shapleigh (an old hardware > company in the U.S.). It looks a bit like a Klingon-inspired weapon > for hand-to-hand combat. > > 4) A Minox GL, purportedly the smallest full frame 35mm film camera > ever made. This one does not appear to have the killer corrosion in > the battery compartment, but I still need to do the battery > replacement hack and test it out. It seems to be prized in the > lomography world, particularly by street shooters. It is in good shape > and still has the little plastic hot shoe protector in place. > > And I got to storm chase on Sunday, but came up empty on tornadoes. I > was in the neighborhood, but these were high precipitation beasts and > I didn't care to take my chances inside. Several small Nebraska towns > experienced some significant damage yesterday. I'm sure there will be > more reportage on that today. > > On the way I discovered a lowland swamp area that was filled with > these gorgeous white heron-like birds, sitting in branches, in the > water, etc. However, I had stupidly left my Bigma home, so I will have > to marke the spot and go back another day. It was the sort of place > that makes you feel that you have left Nebraska and entered an exotic > foreign land - if only briefly. > :) > > > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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