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Rainbow

Saw this fantastic rainbow driving home on Foster Road yesterday. Even though I was heading in that direction, I never did find the pot of gold.

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Ghosts are alive and well in San Francisco

This film shot on a moving trolley down Market Street in 1906 is mesmerizing. It looks as if the air pressure is less than it is today. That’s an artifact of the primitive film of the day, surely, but it … Continue reading

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Portland Japanese Garden

This past Memorial Weekend the Great Prognosticators of Weather had predicted partly sunny days, which is the same as partly cloudy in parts of the country where it doesn’t rain as much as it does here. You see the allusion, … Continue reading

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More LOMO

The intention was a double exposure, since the fish eye has a cool switch which allows for that, but alas, the effect was less than stunning. Benson Bubblers An incredibly ugly piece of public ‘art’ in a small square between … Continue reading

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LOMO!

Last Father’s Day, the Fetching Mrs. Bixby gives me a fisheye camera 2 from Lomography, a company which started out selling cheap Eastern European fixed lens cameras to young, urban, hipsters, thereby elevating grainy and poorly composed snapshots into an … Continue reading

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