by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 6, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
Today’s challenge was simple: grab some random small thing from around the house (in the trade, this is shortened to: RSTFATH, and pronounced rist-fahth, which sounds pretentious because of that extra “h”, but I digress…), photograph it, and...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 5, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing, Uncategorized
Even in these desperately troubling times, I can still trust in...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 4, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
Someone gave this to us years ago. Can’t remember who. It got busted long before this horrible mess we’re in, and we just put it back up on the mantle. Thought about just tossing it away, but it seems poignant just now. Meta: Pentax K-3, Sigma 18–35 f/1.8...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 3, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
THESE MAY BE OUR HARDEST DAYS, and we have no real idea when they will end. Two months ago this was all beyond comprehension. Now, it’s all we know. People are sick everywhere and death is in nearly every headline. I had several motivations in making this...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 2, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
This is the Nuclear Mouse, a fly fishing pattern designed to look like a small struggling rodent, typically tied on a #6 fine-wire streamer hook. It slurps and gurgles and fidgets in the water and the bass just go nuts for it. And it floats like a cork, even after...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 1, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
This is my old shed. It’s across the road from our old farmhouse and just south of our old barn. I keep gardening stuff in it, mostly, and perhaps a little junk. Stuff I trip over. Empty fuel cans, a compressor that doesn’t work, some old tools I sometimes wish I...
