There’s a nasty game I got to play as a kid called, “pig in the middle.” The rules are basically that two bigger kids come along and take something important to you, they’re both taller than you, and they toss your property back and forth over your head, out of your reach, while you jump up and down in tears trying to grab it. Somewhat traumetizing, to say the least.
In my case for the past week and a half the two older kids are named Winter and Summer and what they have been tossing back and forth over my head, just out of my reach, is Spring.
Have we had some warm days? Sure. On weekdays, while I’m working and cannot enjoy them. What do we get on weekends? Cold. Windy. Wet. Snow. Just plain shitty. Although it has technically been spring for just over a week, spring itself is being lobbed back and forth over my head just out of my reach. Fucking annoying, that.
AB, 2025-03-28
AB, 2025-03-28
I’m doing my best to resurrect my photographer mojo. I did take a moment to enjoy some spring rain, to get out back with a real camera, and to try and make some images. No great art, but a great relief to finally have a camera outside in my hands in moderate weather. It has been a while.
Choosing the first camera to take out for the season was easy. The Canon EOS 7D that Ray bequeathed to me is now my favourite camera. It’s maybe not the fastest, the highest quality, or the best camera technically, but it’s the one that most makes me feel like a photographer when it is in my hands.
It was nice to feel like a photographer again.
I used Ray’s Canon EOS 7D and the Canon 70-300mm EF IS USM f4.5-5.6 lens he left me last year.
