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November walk

For the first time in a long while I went for a walk. Just to go out and get some exercise. With a chill in the air, I was cozy in my cap and fingerless gloves, and it was nice to walk with my thoughts. I took with me an old Brownie Hawkeye camera with a load of film. It is a fun puzzle to try to look at your familiar surroundings in a new way. What is different and what would you want to capture and share? What do you want to get people to look at? Walking around with clouds in the sky giving shadows at intermittent times forced me to think and look at the world differently. With the low speed of the film I had to not only pay attention to my orientation to the sun but also whether the sun was peeking out of the clouds or not, all factors that would affect the outcome of the photo. It gets you in tune with the world around you in a different way, and maybe we need to take time to do that. To look at the world with a fresh take and at a different pace.

Looking thru the viewfinder of the Brownie at the porch of the Post Office.

Update:Got the pictures back.

Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List | Open Culture


A nice peek into the mind of the day to day of an artist.

Source: Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List | Open Culture

The daily routines have always been interesting to me. Is it because I strive to have a routine? Another thing that is intriguing in the post is:

John Updike once wrote that “excellence in the great things is built upon excellence in the small”.

Which to me is linked to the idea that quantity leads to quality.

Found via Austin Kleon