Out of curiosity one day, I checked to see if Walgreens still carried film. They had two rolls so I purchased one to encourage them. In anticipation of adventures when Andy and Kristin visit, the speedy Kodak Ultra-Max 400 went into Little Guinness.
Out to lunch at the Fox River Brewing Company.
Levon Bliss' "Microsculpture" was at the Paine Art Center. He takes focus stacking to a new extreme to get images of insect specimens, some of which are centuries old, with perfect depth of focus far sharper than you could get with a small aperture alone.
Some selections from the Oxford University Natural History Collection, including one or two of the subjects of the photographs, were on display in the small side gallery.
"A Cabinet of Wonder" by Jennifer Angus was in the Gothic Gallery consisting of arrangements of insects and other biological specimens in bell jars and other theatrical arrangements.
In the Family Discovery Area in the basement were specimens encased in acrylic which you could look at with a pretty nice Leitz microscope.
Nothing about bugs in the dining room.
Along the driveway in front of the hedge.
After Vladimir Putin made doing his academic research impossible, my former colleague Karl Lowenstein retired early and founded Sturgeon Spirits, making a surprising variety of vodkas and gin. We visited for one of their signature cocktails in their tasting room with the production floor prominently featured behind the bar. This seems to be almost a requirement for craft distilleries and microbrewerys.
Out to lunch again, selecting pizza at Parm.
The flat bread for our appetizer getting baked in their fierce oven.
Red Pepper Hummus atop the flat bread.
Later afternoon stop at Fifth Ward Brewery.
Two flights to sample the latest brews.
The table on the lanai ready for Sarah's spectacular brunch.
The best Eggs Benedict anywhere in the world. As though to reflect this perfection, except for spotting out dust, this is a totally uncropped, unedited image. That doesn't happen often.
They're so good it's kind of a transcendent psychedelic experience.
This is where the fast film really pays off. It only took half a minute to make these exposures before digging into the Eggs Benedict.
A week later, on a trip to Madison to drop off a picture at a juried show, which I've already posted a few medium format pictures from, brunch just across the street from the gallery at Cento, a nice Italian restaurant.
As an alumnus of Catholic elementary and high schools, I couldn't pass up Eggs in Purgatory. Spicy enough to atone for venial sins and very tasty.
Stopped in to the Contemporary Art Museum.
The last time we were on the roof it was a quite nice restaurant. Now it's a sculpture garden where they show movies at night.
Overlooking State Street with the historic Orpheum Theatre across the street. Now mostly a live venue, it use to be a cinema with a restaurant and full bar available while you watched the latest movies before it became a trend at cineplexes.
The Contemporary Garden extends over the Overture Center with this ornate tower remaining from it's original life as the Capitol Theatre.
The transparent stairwell at the Contempary.
A nostalgic stop at Soap Opera.
We've never gone on the official tour of the Capitol before. As we moved from room to room, all around the Rotunda and the Galleries, there were two very cheery Quinceañera photo shoots with matching attendents and their dates and associated relatives.
The elaborately decorated hearing room with fossiliferous, book-matched stone paneling. Plenty of time for an exposure as a five year old questioner took at least twenty seconds to consider every word of his inquiry about the fossils which the guide very patiently waited for and gave a serious answer.
Across the Rotunda from between the stairs.
We stayed at a restored historic hotel, The Ruby Marie. Like a lot of vintage buildings, the entrance is now facing the parking lot rather than the street.
I often wonder why the hotel air-conditioner industry can't somehow make a machine that won't be mistaken for a jet engine. Otherwise it was very nice.
Where Highway 151 turns from John Nolan Drive into Blair Street, as it intersects with Williamson Street, as they all cross the railroad track. This was probably a great place for a hotel in 1873. Lake Monona is just visible to the right.
Their little breakfast cafe is closed on weekends so complimentary breakfast is two doors down at The Come Back Inn, which I think deserves the sobriquet "Dive Bar."
Because of all the latest catering event restrictions on campus, it was held at the Culver Convention Center instead of the cozy Pollock House, with Food Service refreshments instead of home made appetizers and a full bar. If this is as big a crowd as you can get on Friday with free beer, wine and hors d'ouvres, I think this might be one of those old collegiate traditions that could be out of date. I kind of miss it but it gets a little weird when I find myself in the middle of a university politics discussion again.
Little Guinness has a .17mm hand-drilled pinhole 24mm from a 24x36mm frame (a square inch and a half). The UltraMax 400 was the ninth roll developed in an Arista.edu Liquid Quart C-41 kit.
Hello Nick, you don't speak too much about time exposure inside like for the picture of "the best eggs Benedict anywhere in the world" (!) for example, but very nice work as always.
ReplyDeleteThe exposures range from as fast as I can flip a card away and back, to several minutes. I usually measure with Pinhole Assist on an iPhone, but I guess a lot and sometimes its just as long as I can get away with leaving the camera there. The eggs benedict was on a screened-in porch with ISO 400 film at f160 so was probably five seconds?
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