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Posted by Luddy's Lens on September 20, 2015
Posted in: Other photographers. Tagged: environmental photography, great pacific garbage patch, laysan albatross, photographer chris jordan, photography. 3 Comments

Welp, so much for my plans to reboot the blog this year.

While I’m piddling around over here trying to get organized (yet somehow remaining decidedly dis-), please take a few minutes to read this article at Pacific Standard magazine.

The images in the article are by Chris Jordan, the photographer whose Running the Numbers series illustrated American waste.

Here is one of Jordan’s photos from the Pacific Standard piece:
c. Chris Jordan

If you can’t make out what that is, go read the article.

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Photo © Chris Jordan

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Flown.

Posted by Luddy's Lens on January 4, 2015
Posted in: Animals & Pets, Black & White, Movement. Tagged: 35mm, bergger brf400 film, film photography, new year, pentax mx, photography, roosters, time. 5 Comments

Flown

Crikey, it’s been six months already?? Time, like the rooster, eyeballs you suspiciously and then lunges for the chicken wire closest to your leg.

Happy New Year.

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Flown, ©2014
Bergger BRF400 35mm

Pentax MX, but dangit I didn’t note which lens.

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Visiting Carolina.

Posted by Luddy's Lens on July 2, 2014
Posted in: Black & White, Candid, Portrait. Tagged: 35mm, film photography, holga film, north carolina, pentax, photography. 3 Comments

Baby S, NC 2014

Baby & mom.

Casey, NC 2014

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Baby S, North Carolina 2014 & Casey, North Carolina 2014, ©2014
Holga BW400

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Visiting Carolina.

Posted by Luddy's Lens on June 22, 2014
Posted in: Black & White, Candid, Portrait. Tagged: 35mm, film photography, holga film, north carolina, pentax, photography. Leave a comment

Big Brother and Baby S (1)

Siblings of the little girl in my last post.

Big Brother and Baby S (2)

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Big Brother and Baby S, North Carolina 2014, 1 & 2, ©2014
Holga BW 400

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Visiting Carolina.

Posted by Luddy's Lens on June 13, 2014
Posted in: Black & White, Candid, Portrait. Tagged: 35mm, film photography, holga film, north carolina, pentax, photography. 2 Comments

Little C, North Carolina 2014 (1)

A young relative we visited earlier this year.

Little C, North Carolina 2014 (2)

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Little C, North Carolina 2014, 1 & 2, c. 2014
Holga BW 400

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Tropospheric Friscalations.

Posted by Luddy's Lens on June 3, 2014
Posted in: Abstract, Color, Deliberate Defocus. Tagged: 35mm, film photography, fujicolor film, kalimar mirror lens, pentax mx, photography. 2 Comments

Tropospheric Friscalation 2 (Thunderhead)

Tropospheric Friscalation 1 (Cumulus)

These are…uh…frost, probably?

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Tropospheric Friscalation 2 (Crucifix Thunderhead) & 1 (Cumulus), c. 2014
Pentax MX, Kalimar 500mm mirror lens
Fujifilm Color 200

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Cows at Straits View Farm.

Posted by Luddy's Lens on May 27, 2014
Posted in: Animals & Pets, Black & White, Exteriors, Grainy Days. Tagged: 35mm, bovines, cafo, cows, factory farms, film photography, fujifilm neopan, photography, vegetarianism. 3 Comments

Cows at Straits View Farm

I posted this elsewhere a few years ago, but some recent pieces at life of the hand/life of the mind and Something New Please brought it back to mind. (Also some of the self-righteous faux-animal-lovin’ commenters on this Gawker post kinda chapped my hide.)

I’m a vegetarian for 25 years, but nothing militant and not from any particular love of animals; it’s more because of how removed we’ve become in the eating of ’em.  (Gonna be kind of a long one for me, so you might want to grab a snack.)

By now we all know the horror stories, the Food Inc. stories, the Fast Food Nation stories, the cows and chickens getting stuffed full of corn in overcrowded shit-filled pens stories, the Monsanto owns the world stories.  It’s no longer life; it is only filler, engineered for “mouth feel.”  A hen ranks the same as a Coco-Puff, and I doubt most people bother to taste the difference.

My husband eats meat, as does everyone else in our family (even the dog is on a raw meat diet).  Since I do most of the cooking in our house, it means I cook most of the meat in our house, though I can’t taste whatever I’m preparing and the feel of it gives me the willies and I don’t like the smell.  Sure, others would call this hypocritical, maybe you would call this hypocritical, but screw them (and you).  I figure, better it be done by me, so uncomfortably conscious of the flesh in my hands and how it probably got there; it’s not a ritual, I don’t chant prayers of thanks to some animal spirit gazing down on me, or any of that touchy-feely poppycock.  This beast had no idea of how its life should have been, but I do.  So I mourn a little, because really:  what a lousy way to live.  If this was 100 years ago, if I had to raise or hunt my own?  I’d be eating ’em, too.  Fair and square.

We live up the road from the farm where we’ve bought lamb, so that’s something; also it’s a short hop to numerous other farms for any number of things (please don’t use the word “locavore” because I hate that trendy nonsense).  But that’s a rare thing these days in the western world, to be on a first-name basis with the guy who grew your food — so unusual in our modern lives that it’s almost considered a luxury, and people often comment about how “expensive” farmers markets can be.  The very idea has been factoried right out of us.

And I guess that’s my whole point with this overlong meander.  You like a thick juicy hamburger?  I got no problem with that.  It’s not my business what other people eat; it’s a choice we make, like religion and politics, and usually less strife-filled to boot.  I myself enjoy a nice slab of chocolate cake, and there’s all kindsa animal stuff in those, plus that Monsanto-engineered-mouth-feel.  Enjoy that burger.  Don’t wolf it down like it’s nothing new.  Taste it.  Relish it.  Be conscious of it.  It wasn’t always rocket fuel.

Then maybe if you find a few extra bucks in your pocket that you don’t mind parting with, and you happen to find yourself in the vicinity of a farm stand…I mean, is three bucks really that much for a carton of eggs?

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Cows at Straits View Farm, c. 2010
Fujifilm Neopan 400

(Yeah, I’ve been in a ranty mood lately…)

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K.I.A., recently.

Posted by Luddy's Lens on May 23, 2014
Posted in: Black & White, Cemetery, Exteriors, Spotmatic. Tagged: 35mm, afghanistan war, film photography, iraq war, killed in action, kodak bw400cn, memorial day, photography, spotmatic, tahoma national cemetery. 2 Comments

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Headstones of military personnel killed in action in Iraq & Afghanistan, Tahoma National Cemetery.

KIA, recently (Field of Markers)

KIA, recently (Earth Mover)

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K.I.A., recently, c. 2014
Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic SP500, Vivitar 28mm 1:26 lens
Kodak BW400CN

Fuck the politics. Give a little:
The Farmer Veteran Coalition
Fisher House Foundation
Wounded Warrior Project

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New Green Season.

Posted by Luddy's Lens on May 18, 2014
Posted in: Abstract, Color, Deliberate Defocus, Exteriors, Still LIfe. Tagged: 35mm, film photography, fujifilm color, kalimar 500 mm lens, new growth, pentax mx, photography, seasons, seedlings. 4 Comments

New Green Season (3)

New Green Season (2) New Green Season (5)

New Green Season (6)

A last little snow, sometime in early March, I think.

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New Green Season 3, 2, 5, 6, c. 2014
Fujifilm Color 200
Pentax MX, Kalimar 500mm mirror lens

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Frozen Little Boat.

Posted by Luddy's Lens on May 13, 2014
Posted in: Abstract, Color, Exteriors. Tagged: 35mm, film photography, freezing temperatures, kodak portra 160, photography, row boat, winter. 4 Comments

Frozen Little Boat (3)

Frozen Little Boat (5)

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Frozen Little Boat 3 & 5, c. 2014
Kodak Portra 160

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