Archive for February, 2010
Camera Rant, Part Two
It seems that every Christmas Santa dips into his electronic goodie bag and hands me a digital Panasonic camera. Christmas 2008 it was the estimable LX3; last Christmas he he brought me a Panasonic GF1 with a 20mm lens. Just one these excellent machines might end up being the main instrument but for now, like [...]
Mensis Horrendus
February of 2010 was a mensis horrendus, as Queen Elizabeth might say. February is always a mensis horrendus but this one seemed more horrendous than usual. A friend died – see the next post – and my wife adopted an elephant named Makena, the two events being completely unrelated. Fortunately, Makena lives in Kenya because if [...]
Mathias T. Oppersdorff
A friend of mine , photographer Mathias Thomas Oppersdorff, of Mantunuck, Rhode Island, died January 26, 2010 after a 12 year struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 74 years old.
Mathias, always known as Mo, and never Mathias, was a friend in high school. Later both he and I became professional photographers although oddly neither of [...]