Anne challenges me to take a lens for a walk. Yes, choose a lens and walk. You can also use your cell phone or point-and-shoot camera and see what you can do with it. Another trick when using a zoom lens is to pick an aperture and stay with it. I accept this challenge.
My photography friends and I headed out of town Sunday. Our destination – Vacaville. I brought along my Fuji xt4 with my 18-55mm lens and my iPhone 13 pro. In my first group of photographs, I kept my aperture set at f 8.
Aperture f 8
This sign probably wouldn’t help muchGetting ready for more springlike weatherPeeking
Lone Lady Bug
Most Used Focal Length
Most used focal length surprised me – 18mm.
Meet Xinea
Two Cameras
iPhone 13 proFuji xt4 Which do you prefer?
Taken with iPhone 13 max
Wren’s Cafe in Vacaville
So ends my photographic look on my one lens walk. Looking forward to continued sunshine this coming week, at least. Gives the gardens and dog parks time to dry out. My Moxie wants to run and play outdoors.
Sofia’s challenge is about time, and how things evolve.
Medical Advances
My first photographs were taken at the Museum of Medical History. A couple of years ago I visited this little out-of-the-way museum when Sacramento was hosting Museum Day. Once a year, the public is invited to visit and learn about all the local museums. This little gem is just fascinating, but do not visit if you are about to have a medical procedure.
Iron Lung used during the polio epidemic
Forceps were used in my first delivery. (1975)QuinineAnesthetic Machine 1960’s
This technology continues to develop into smaller devices. Yeah!
With the use of digital equipment, disposables, and computers the look of hospitals is quite different.
Nurses duties before disposablesMedical mannequin for practice
My grandson meets the computer age.
Dimise of the Telephone Booth
My next set of photographs has to do with the slow disappearance of the telephone booth. With the advent of the pocketable cell phone, the public telephone is a rare find. I wonder where Clark Kent will go to change into Superman?
These booths had doors. This allowed for more private conversations. None of these are working telephone booths. The bottom image is from the Roseville Telephone Museum.
Somewhere along the evolution, the door is eliminated. And then the booth altogether. The dial is gone, and now there are buttons to press.
This image was taken in 2008. I wonder if this bank of shiny working pay phones is still in service the Phoenix Airport? Where or when did you last see a working pay phone?
One of my early jobs, while I was in college, was that of a long-distance telephone operator. And one of my least favorite part of the job was to connect someone from a pay phone. I had to listen for the coins to drop, connect the call, monitor, and ask for additional money after 3 minutes. Often the person would just walk away without paying. I was also the person who took the many complaints if they lost money on a non-working phone. I really don’t know how the phone call is paid for now. I bought my first cell phone in 1997 (25 years ago), and that took care of my use of pay phones. And that phone did not fit into my pocket or do what my iPhone 13 pro can do.
Siri is questioning me
Thank you Sofia for giving me a chance to look back. 25 years of cell phones. Wow, I just can’t believe that. Oh well, time flies.
This week Ann-Christine challenges me to find perfect patterns and tell us why I think they are perfect.
Animals
An answer to an often-asked question, “Are zebras black with white stripes or white with black stripes?” The answer is, “Black with white stripes!” Shave one and you will find black skin beneath. When exploring this fun fact I learned that scientists still have not discovered the reason for their stripes. Not an easy question to solve so it seems. No matter, I still find them perfect.
Zebra stripes
Maine Coon Ca
Giraffe spots are unique. And by the way, their tongues are long so that they can forage on trees that others can’t eat.
Abandoned beehive
Alligator Lizard
Pelican feathers
George’s beautiful Tortoise Shell
Plants
This cactus flower will bloom once at night. In the morning it will be done. I learned this from my neighbors, Bob and Bea. I received an urgent call one night and was told to come over quickly. Worried, we rushed over. The cactus was blooming, and they didn’t want us to miss it. I was relieved since these neighbors were elderly. They gave us a cactus we named, Bob and Bea, and it bloomed after many years. That is until a neighborhood squirrel thought this cactus was tasty.
Cactus flower
This squirrel came each afternoon and ate until there was nothing left. So much for saving for a rainy day.
Found on the coast of California, I love the papery look of these colorful flowers.
Iceland Poppies
Lots of other flower patterns some perfect, and some almost. Which one do you like?
Daisies
Dandelion
Yellow Rose
Natural World
Rocks in the American River
Shell on a lava stone
Taken many years ago on The Big Island. Currently, lava is flowing again.
Lava flow
Sedona rock formation. Inspiring and peaceful
Magnificent!
Mount Rainier National Park
Art inspired patterns
Glasswork of a leaf
Color, reflection, and repetition are all captured in one photo.
Decorating a casino in Las Vegas.
The back of this caned chair creates a comfortable pattern.
Skyscraper hotel patterns. Privacy, view, interest, or lighting? Why?
That is all I can say about seeing the world and discovering all the perfect patterns that surround us. Do you have any perfect patterns around you?