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...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Mar 31, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
PPE: Personal Protective Equipment. Until a couple of months ago most of us thought PPE stood for Perhaps Penguins Exaggerate. Now that abbreviation spills off our tongues with such terrible seriousness. That’s all I have to say. Here’s the big Flickr...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
Sometimes inspiration comes from a glance across the kitchen counter where your wife left an avocado pit and you remembered trying to sprout one held in place over a glass with toothpicks when you were little. Can’t remember if it worked then. Very low...
