Winter Gloom

I was setting out to meet with a few people on a collaborative project. That might present some opportunities. With the f130 Silver Dragon and Lomo 800, even portraits might be possible.

Chemist Dr. Jonathon Gutow measuring the surface tension of water to test whether the apparatus is clean enough for his experiment on one molecule thick coatings.

Didn't get more collaborators, but here's the space where some of the project is occuring, Coffee Wizardz on the first floor of The Draw. I had some kind of Hazelnut Latte. It was the only thing on the menu I recognized. Very tasty. The sun pours through the southern windows at midday.

Several readers at the coffee shop graciously agreed to be in my foreground.

That was just before the solstice and then the sun came out only briefly for two weeks. Here, from inside Becket's, the Jackson/Oregon Street bridge is dusted with what is sometimes called "snain." Then the temperature went down as well and it all turned into ice.

After a week and a half of cold gloom, the temperature got back up to freezing and it snowed again. It stuck to everything. Very decorative.

The film didn't quite distinguish between the well-exposed snow and the overexposed sky.

That "pageant of the seasons" view.

It might be a while before we go down the garden path.

This is color film, right? The little lamps contrasted to the monochrome landscape, but I'm not sure I featured them as well as possible.

The subtle cyan of the umbrella and chair, as well as the copper window boxes, usually are overwhelmed by the vegetation, but now provide a subtle counterpoint to the white pines.

The storm was most of the weekend and Monday, shoveled on Tuesday. It snowed again and was shoveled again on Wednesday. All day Thursday, it snowed 10 inches, beginning very wet and then getting very cold and blustery. As I rested on the lanai after a session on the sidewalks and driveway on Friday, this sunbeam greeted me and hung around for long enough to get the camera. It was sunny a lot when I was working on this and the previous post, but now the gloom has returned and it's raining.

The Silver Dragon has .23mm pinholes on the axis and 11mm above the axis, 30mm from a 6x6cm frame. The Lomo 800 was the third roll developed in Arista.edu's quart liquid C-41 kit.