The weather was great. I was in the yard. I wanted to take a photo of a flower.
Not this one.
The flower I wanted was not in a position I could get to. My iPhone didn’t do much good because of its lack of a zoom. So, I turned to a flower that was closer and took this disappointing picture.
Sorry.
Tomorrow, I’ll go back with a zoom and hope the flowers look as good.
Although I love my iPhone. It just wasn’t enough.
Before it’s too late save your old family photos. This family picture was taken in the mid-1930s in Poland. By the end of World War II, only two people were still alive…my father and uncle.
Make copies of your family photos. Make prints. Give them out. Make sure you write captions telling who is in the photo. It’s important. Start saving your family…now!
Elsa Dorfman is mostly retired now. However, you can still see her work here. Elsa uses a Polaroid 20″x24″ camera. She is truly unique.
Digital cameras are fantastic. So is my iPhone. However, in the right hands it doesn’t matter very much. Grant Hamilton proved this years ago using Polaroid camera. This is No. 23. You can see more at sxseventy.com.
Ansel Adams said, “Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.” It happened to me a few years ago while walking with my wife through the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
Aside from being there during cherry blossom season, I was there when on one was walking on the path!
Before running for President Abraham Lincoln was relatively unknown. During his election campaign he came to New York City to make a speech at The Cooper Union on February 27, 1860. That was before he was nominated as a presidential candidate. He stopped into Mathew Brady’s portrait studio. This is the portrait that was created that day.
News of Lincoln’s speech was carried by newspapers around the country…with this picture. Lincoln thought that the speech and photo greatly helped him become President of the United States.